An Aerial Gunnery Aerodynamic Lead Pursuit Model

Abstract

A digital simulation of aerial gunnery was developed. A six-degree- of-freedom attacking aircraft controlled by control surface deflections was implemented to perform aerodynamic lead pursuit of an evading target. The attacker is capable of flying within the bounds of its performance envelope. The target is a coordinated flight and aerodynamically constrained model capable of some evasive logic. Three sight systems have been implemented into the simulation. The program was written in FORTRAN IV and has been checked out on the XDS Sigma 5, the IBM 360/65, and the CDC 6600 computers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADB023903

Entities

People

  • A. J. Mcphate
  • D. R. Fleming

Organizations

  • Louisiana State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Gunnery
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Altitude
  • Angular Acceleration
  • Computers
  • Control Surfaces
  • Control Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Engineering
  • Euler Angles
  • Flight Paths
  • Literature Surveys
  • Mach Number
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Computer Science.
  • Control Systems Engineering.