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AGARD Flight Test Techniques Series

Volume 10
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Weapon Delivery Analysis
I and Ballistic Flight Testing
(L'halyse du Largage d'Armes
et les Essais en Vol Balistique)

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Flight Test Techniques Series Volume 10

Weapon Delivery Analysis

and Ballistic Flight Testing
(LAnalyse du Largage d'Armes
et les Essais en Vol Balistique)

by
RJ.Arnold and J.B. Knight
Department of the Air Force
Headquarters 3246th Test Wing (AFSC)
Eglin Air Force Base
Florida 32542-5000
United States
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 Preface

Since its founding in 1952, the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development has
published, through the Flight Mechanics Panel, a number of standard texts in the field of flight testing.
Theoriginal Flight Test Manual was puhlished in the years 1954 to 1956. Thc Manual WdS divided into
four volumes:

1 Performance
2 Stability and Control
3 Instrumcntation Catalog, and
4 Instrumentation Svstems.

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 Preface

Depuis sa criation el 1952, le Panel de la Micdnique du vol, SOUS I'egide du Groupe Consulratif pour la
Recherche et les Rialisations Aerospatiales a publie, un certain nomhre de textes qui font autorite dans
le domaine des essais en vol. Lc Manuel des Essais en Vol a ele publie pour la premihe fois dans les
annies 1954-1956. II comportail quatre volumes a savoir:

1 Performances
2 Stahiliti et Contr6le
3 Catalogue des appareils de mcsure, et
4 Systemes de mesure.

Les novations dans le domaine des appareils de mesure pour les essais en vol, on1 conduit B recrier, en
1968, le groupe de travail sur les appareils de mesure pour les essais en vol pour permettre la remise B
jour des volumes 3 el 4. Les travaux du groupe ont dihouchi. sur IUdition d h e sirie de publications sur
les appareils de mesure pour les essais en vol, I'AGARDographie 160. Les differents volumes de
I'AGARDographie 160 publies jusqul ce jour couvrent les derniers diveloppements dans le domdine.

En 1978, le Panel d la Mecanique du vola signal6 I'inlkrCt de monogrdphies supplementaires sur certains
aspects des volumes I et 2 du Manuel initial et notamment les essais en vol des systl-mes avioniques.
Ainsi, au mois de mars 1981, le groupe de travail sur les techniques des essais en vol a ete recrie pour
m e n u i bien cette tiche. Les monographies dans cette sirie (a I'exception de la AG 237 qui fait partie
d'une skrie distincte) sont puhliies sous forme de volumes individuels de IAGARDographie 300.

A la fin de chacun des volumes de YAGARDographie 160 et de I'AGARDographie 300 figurent deux
annexes gknerales. L'annexe 1 fournit la liste des volumes publih dans la sirie "Appareils d e mesure
pour les essais en vol" et dans le sirie "Techniques des cssais en vol". L'anncxe 2 donne la liste des
manuels disponibles sur les mCmes themes dam le domaine des essais en vol, qui ne sont pas forcement
en rapport avec le contenu du volume en question.

Ce volume 10 de I'AGARDographie 300 decrit 'I'Analyse du Largage d'Armes et les Essais en Val
Balistique' et il traite de la modelisation/essais balistiques des armes exfernes du point vue global des
systl-mes. Tous les aspects de la conception des essais balistiques, des techniques de collecte de donnies,
de la reduction de donnies, des techniques d'analyse ct, enfin, des techniques dc modilisation du
programme de vol operationnel y son1 abordes.

La ridaction a i t i particulierement soignie, avec comme ohjectif d'editer un rapport qui serait B la fois
clair CI comprihensible pour les gestionnaires commc pour les ingenieurs, tout en trairant de
suffisamment de principes d'ingeniirie pour inliresser de vrais ballisticiens du point de vue applications.
 Acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO WORKING GROUP 11 MEMBERS

In the preparation of the present volume the members of the Flight Test Techniques Group listed below took an active part.
AGARD has been most fortunate in finding these competent people willing to contribute their knowledge and time in the
preparation of this and other volumes.

La liste des membres du groupe de travail sur les techniques des essais en vol ont participe activement a la redaction de ce
volume figure ci-dessous. UAGARD peut itre fier que ces personnes compitentes aient bien voulu accepter de panager leurs
connaissances et aient consacre le temps necessaire a Yelaboration de ce et autres documents.

Appleford, J.K. A&AEE/UK

Bever,G. NASA/US
Bogue,R.K. NASA/US
Bothe,H. DLFUGE
Campos, L.M.B. ISTfPO
Delle Chiaie, S. DASRSAT
Nippress,K. A&AEE/UK
Payze,T. MSB/TU
Russell, R.A. NATC/US
van der Velde,R.L NLR/NE
Zunde1.Y. CEV/FR

R.R. HILDEBRAND, AFFTC

Member, Flight Mechanics Panel
Chairman, Flight Test Techniques Group

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY THE AUTHORS

Special appreciation is due to Mr Walter Martin for his contribution regarding the present ballistics process, MI Michael
Johnson for his contribution relative to Operation Flight Program expertise, and Ms Nancy Demonbrun for her contribution
relating to the instrumentation portion of this report. Their review and input to this report has made a significant contribution to
its tcchnical accuracy

R.J.ARNOLD & J.B,KNIGH'I

Eglin Air Force Base
April 1992
 Contents

Page

Preface iii

Preface iv

Acknowledgements V

List of Figures viii

List ofTables IX

1 .o Introduction 1

2.0 Historical Perspective 3

3.0 Potential for Reducing Ballistic Errors 8

4.0 Objectives of Ballistic Test Programs 12

4.1 Freestream Testing 12
4.2 Separation-Effects Testing 12
4.3 OFP Accuracy Testing 14
4.4 OFP Accuracy-Verification Process 14
4.5 Tradeoff Between Accuracy and Resource Expenditures 16

5.0 General Description of Weapon Delivery System 17

5.1 Data Sources 17
5.2 Error Sources 18

6.0 Development of a Weapon System Test Program 20

6.1 Test Matrix Development 20
6.1.1 Types of Weapons 20
6.1.2 Weapon Functioning Envelope 21
6.1.3 Number of Weapons Required for Store Freestream Testing 21
6.1.4 Number of Weapons Required for Separation-Effects Testing 22
6.1.5 Number of Weapons Required for OFP Accuracy Testing 25

7.0 Flight Test Preparations 27

7.1 Instrumentation Calibration and Verification 27
7.1.1 Aircraft Boresighting 27
7.1.2 Aircraft Footprinting 28
7.1.3 Aircraft Systems Check 28
7.2 Pilot Procedures 30
7.3 Test Constraints/Tolerances 30

8.0 Weapon System Test Program Data Requirements 32

8.1 Cinetheodolite Cameras 32
8.2 Ground Impact Scoring 39
8.3 Aircraft Instrumentation 39
8.4 HUD Recordings 42
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8 4 1 I_J
-w_of HI IT) Video for Comouterized Deliveries
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42
8.4.2 Use of HUD Video for Non-'Computerized Deliveries 43
8.5 Programmable Data Acquisition Systems (PDAS) Recordings 43
8.6 Aircraft Data 43
8.7 Store Data 43
8.8 Meteorological Data 43
8.9 Summary of Data Requirements for Ballistic Tests 44

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9.0 Data Analysis 44

9.1 Freestream Analysis Methodolpgy 44
9.2 Submunition Pattern Analysis 47
9.3 Separation-Effects Analysis 48
9.4 Accuracy Analysis 49
9.5 Actual Results of Freestream and Separation-Effects Analysis 53
9.6 Guided Weapons Analysis 53

10.0 Application of Analysis/Test Results 57

10.1 Presentation of Results in Dash 25 and Dash 34 Series Technical Orders 57
10.2 Joint Munition Effectiveness Manuals (JMEMs) 58
10.3 Mission Support Systems (MSS) 62
10.3.1 Microcomputer Weapon Delivery Program 62
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10.3.2 MSS Weapon Delivery Module (WDM) 62
10.4 Future MSS 63

11.0 Examples of Test Plans and Analyses Results 64

11.I Freestream Drag and Separation-Effects Example 64
11.2 OFP Accuracy Test Example 64

12.0 Final Remarks on Data Collection 64

13.0 Conclusion 65
References 66
Bibliography 67

APPENDIX A Questions on Ballistic Analyses and Testing with Responses from Canada,
France and Germany A- 1

APPENDIX B Ballistics Requirements B-1

APPENDIX C Future Trends in Ballistic Testing and Analyses c-1

APPENDIX D Ballistic Sensitivity Analyses Study for CBU-58 and MK 84 LDGP Stores D-1

APPENDIX E Method ofTest Annex Test Directive 2671AL71 BLU-l07/B Parent

Carriage on F-16MB Aircraft E-1

APPENDIX F Method of Test Annex Test Directive 2671AL78 F-16/Z-1 Operational

Flight Program (OFP) for Specified Weapons F-1

ANNEX 1 Annex-1

ANNEX 2 Annex-2

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 List of Figures

Page

Figure 1 F-4 Carrying 18 800-Pound-Class Cluster Bombs on Three Multiple Bomb Racks 1
Figut-e 2 Aircrew Demonstrating Technique for Throwing a Small Bomb from an Aircraft 3
Figure 3 Four 25-Pound Bombs Just After Release from DH-4 Aircraft Using Strap Carriage
Racks 4
Figure 4 Martin Bomber Scoring Direct Hit on Battleship Alabama with 25-Pound
Phosphorus Bomb 6
Figure 5 Bridge Destroyed Using Carpet Bombing 7
Figure 6 Ripple Release of Six MK 82 LDGP 500-Pound Bombs from Mirage Aircraft
in a Dive 8
Figure 7 Separation Effects Defined 13
Figure 8 Target Designation on Heads-Up-Display 14
Figure 9 Ballistic Accuracy Verification Process 15
Figure 10 Tradeoff Between Accuracy and Resource Expenditures 16
Figure 1 1 HUD Boresigh1 19
Figure 12 HUD Parallax Errors 20
Figure 13 F-l5E with Loadout of 12 MK & LDGP Bombs 23
Figure 14 Effect of Airspeed and Configuration on Separation Effects 24
Figure 15 Recommended Number of Weapons 27
Figure 16 Systems Check -Pass 1 29
Figure 17 Systems Check - Pass 2 30
Figure 18 Systems Check Pass 3
~ 31
Figure 19 Typical Land Range 33
Figure 20 Cinetheodolite h i d e Astrodome 34
Figure 21 Cinetheodolite Structure 35
Figure 22 TSPI Raw Data Acquisition 36
Figure 23A Cinetheodolite Photo Coverage of MK 82 Release 37
Figure 23B Cinetheodolite Photo Coverage of Alpha Jet 37
Figure 24 Type 29 Telereader System 38
Figure 25 Contraves Semi-Automatic Film Reader 38
Figure 26 Typical Impact Plot 41
Figure 27 Delta Range 46
Figure 28 Validation of Freestream Drag 46
Figure 29 Aimpoint-Corrccted Impacts 50
Figure 30 CEP Defined 51

Figure C-1 KDEM K,, Estimates Versus Mach Number c-7

Figure C-2 Wind Axes Force System c -9
Figure C-3 Typical Yaw Angle and Drag Coefficient Time c-10
Figure C-4 Typical Damped and Undamped Angle of Attack Time Histories and the Effect on Lift c-12
Figure C-5 SEEM Initial Drag Coefficient Versus Angle of Attack C-14
Figure C-6 SEEM Initial Side Force Coefficient Versus Angle of Attack C-15
Figure C-7 SEEM Initial Lift Coefficient Versus Angle of Attack C-16
Figure C-8 SEEM Force Coefficient Influence on Ballistic Accuracy C-18

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 List of Tables

Page

Predicted Miss Distances of MK 82 Low-Drag General-Purpose Bombs Due to

Various Error Sources - Raw Data 10
Predicted Miss Distances of MK 82 Low-Drag General-Purpose Bombs Due to
Various Error Sources - Summary 11
Probabilities Associated with Values as Small as Observed Values of X in the
Binomial Test 26
Sample TSPl Data 40
Ballistic Accuracy without Separation-Effects Compensation 52
Ballistic Accuracy with Freestream Store Data 54
Ballistic Accuracy with Separation-EffectsCompensation 55
Ballistic Tables for MK 82 AIR (Low Drag) Released from an Aircraft in Loft Mode 59
Ballistic Tables for MK 82 AIR (Low Drag) Released from an Aircraft in Drive Mode 60
Safe Escape Chart 61

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1.0 INTRODUCTION of small stores, or even a few large stores or any

combination of these, can and usually does have
For several decades, there has been an enormous significant ramifications on the aircraft in such
increase in the emphasis and importance of carry- areas as stability and control, structural toads, and
ing stores (both guided and unguided bombs, for flutter. On the other hand, the aircraft’s environ-
example) externally on tactical fighter aircraft. In ment can have serious detrimental effects on the
fact, many of today’s aircraft carry so many stores stores themselves. For example, the store structure
and some stores have increased so much in size andlor internal functioning components may fail
that pundits have remarked: “It’s the stores that are due to static and vibroacoustic loads imposed by
carrying the aircraft!”. Figure 1 shows an F-4 the aircraft. Separation characteristics of stores are
carrying 18 800-pound-class cluster bombs. This dependent on the aircraft’s aerodynamic configura-
is a heavy load, but there are heavier loads and tion, the store‘s physical and aerodynamic charac-
much larger stores that can be carried in an almost teristics, and an array of other variables such as
endless array of configurations on most tactical rack ejector forces. Nevertheless, analysis and test
fighter aircraft. techniques for establishing safe aircraftlstore car-
riage and store separation have reached a high level
Tremendous amounts of time and money have been of maturity and are well documented in the litera-
spent by the United States Air Force (USAF) and ture.
the supporting defense industrial infrastructure to
establish safe carriage and separation envelopes for However, successful completion of the preceding
each aircraft/store configuration. As one can easily work only enables aircrews to carry and release
appreciate, the mounting of either a large number stores safely in the vicinity of the target. Unless

Figure 1. F-4 carrying 18 800-Pound-Class Cluster Bombs on Three Multiple Bomb Racks
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stores can be released in such a manner as to put error was due to the effect of the aircraft's flow
them on a trajectory so they will hit their intended field in disturbing the bomb's point mass trajec-
targets, aircrews and aircraff will have been sub- tory, which had not been accounted for in the air-
jected to needless risk, and the mission and all of craft's weapon delivery system computer.
the work that was expended €or it will have been to
no avail. This experience, and others like it, served to
dramatize the need for comprehensive ballistics
In more recent years, data have become available analysis and testing in a systematic manner.
which confirm that some aircraft have not been Unfortunately, while the literature abounds with
able to deliver stores with the accuracy that was information on ways to establish safe carriage and
originally expected. Quite naturally, this inability separation of stores, a vast void exists on such
has led to concern from the operational community information to establish ballistic characteristics.
that its members could not achieve the "one target Accordingly, a key purpose of this volurne is to
kill per pass" that they envisioned. First and open up the channels of communication by prompt-
foremost, there had been little emphasis during ing others to expand and amplify on this initial
development testing to estzblish system ballistic effort. Within this context, this volume is intended
accuracy for individual aircraft/store configura- for engineers and managers involved in ballistic
tions. The testing that was done usually con- analysis and test programs and for personnel, such
centrated on establishing the overall delivery as aircrews, in the operational community to foster
accuracy of the aircraft using small practice bombs a better understanding of what is involved in estab-
such as the BDU-33. During operational evalua- lishing ballistics accuracy.
tions, aircrews usually validated ballistic accuracy
with these same practice bombs. For example, By way of a disclaimer, it must be stated that this
consider the following scenario: a pilot flies to a volume was assembled from the Eglin Ail: Force
test range, releases a live bomb (for example, a Base, Florida, perspective and specifically, from
MK 82 low-drag general-purpose bomb) against a the perspective of the way ballistics analysis and
ground target, looks over his or her shoulder after testing are conducted and orchestrated by the
the release, and notes that the bomb bit the ground Office for Aircraft Compatibility (3246th Test
at some point relative to the target. The pilot WingiTY). However, this is not intended to imply
might try to rationalize the miss due to aiming that Eglin's way is the only way. This volume has
errors, a malfunctioning weapon delivery system, been prepared at a general technical level. 'That is,
atmospheric conditions, a "bad" bomb, and the technical details as to the inner workings of Eglin's
like. What the pilot never knew was that had man various computer programs which are used to
and machine been in perfect operational condition predict and analyze ballistics have been omitted in
and harmony, the bomb might still have missed the lieu of discussing approaches and procedures which
target because of inadequate analysis and testing. may be evaluated and tailored for individual use by
any test and evaluation organization.
What really brought this situa.tion to the attention of
engineers was data obtained from one operational When this volume was originally planned, it was
evaluation wherein most of the necessary variables hoped that substantive information from. other
were quantified. Live bombs were released against nations could be interwoven throughout the vo-
point targets, many of which missed their targets lume. While some information was obtained from
by very large distances. Expressed in another way, a fact-finding trip to the United Kingdom, France,
a person would have been very safe standing at and Germany and from other sources, it was felt
target center! Bombs were released from an air- that it would be best not to incorporate inputs as
craft equipped with a weapons-delivery computer planned so as to avoid the risk of any misquotes
and were released in the automatic mode. Bomb due to partiallincomplete inforination. However,
mass properties were established before loading as mentioned earlier, valuable information was
and were validated to be within acceptable toler- obtained and the efforts of the people who pirepared
ance. Atmospheric conditions were carefully and provided it are much appreciated. To keep the
measured before and after boinb releases. In short, size of this volume to a reasonable length, all of
bombs were released under very controlled condi- this information cannot be documented herein.
tions so that any errors (although none were ex- However, this author believes it would be of value
pected) could be analyzed. It was subsequently to share representative inputs from Canada,
determined that the primary source of ballistic Germany, and France. Appendix A contains a list
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of questions regarding how ballistic analysis and weapons could be dropped on an enemy. In early
testing are performed in the host nation along with experiments, oranges and paper bags filled with
responses from Canada, Germany, and France. flour were dropped overboard by hand from low
After reading this volume, it is suggested that these altitudes, usually a few hundred feet, as the balloon
questions be reviewed from the standpoint of being drifted over a target outlined on the ground.
able to understand how ballistic analysis and testing However, it is wondered whether these early
are performed in the reader's nation. If the reader pioneers gave any thought to the fact that the
is able to answer these questions, he or she will enemy might be shooting back and the balloon
have the broad background necessary to perform would probably be shot down before reaching its
detailed analyses. target.

Finally, it is hoped that this volume will stimulate In the early days of World War I, the offensive use
others to add to the published database in this of the airplane was enhanced by dropping small
technical area. There is still much data that needs bombs and other objects, such as quantities of steel
to be written and documented. Further efforts darts and incendiary grenades. Bombs were
should have, as a goal, the standardization of thrown overboard by the aircrew (see Figure 2) at
procedures to the maximum extent possible in an the perceived right time (by seat of the pants or by
effort to minimize resource expenditures while still using eyeball judgment) to hit the target. From
delivering to the operational user the quality of data low altitudes of several hundred feet and at low
that bas the accuracy necessary to meet combat airspeeds of less than 100 miles per hour, the re-
requirements. sults were considered very good against undefend-
ed area targets such as a fuel dump. However, this
2.0 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE methodology changed when enemy defensive fire
forced aircraft to release bombs from higher al-
Long before the first flight of the Wright brothers, titudes (usually above 1500 feet) and/or at night to
balloons were envisioned as a platform from which minimize the possibility of getting shot down.

Figure 2. Aircrew Demonstrating Technique for Throwing a Small Bomb from an Aircraft
 A

Under these conditions, the probability of hitting hit the target. These community members learned
area targets declined substantially and the probabili- that aircraft motion and atmospheric conditions
ty of hitting point targets, such as a bridge, became such as wind speed and direction all induced errors
almost an impossibility except when R rare lucky in the fall of bombs. As a result, considerable
hit is excluded. work was undertaken and significant technical
progress was made in the area of aerial bombard-
The complex problem of hitting a target from a ment by the end of the World War I. For example,
moving aircraft without even a bombsight to guide substantial improvements were made in the bombs
the aircrew was definitely underestimated at the themselves. They were specifically designed for
beginning of World War I. As a result of combat aircraft use and equipped with stabilizing fins. The
experience during this war, the technical communi- bombs had increased in size, too, (weighing up to
ty slowly came to realize that there was only a several thousand pounds) as the payload of aircraft
single point in the vast airspace from which an also increased. Primitive racks were developed to
aircraft could release its bombs and cause them to carry and release the bombs. Figure 3 shows

Figure 3. Four 25-Pound Bombs Just After Release from DH-4 Aircraft Using Stra,p Carriage Racks
 5

several 25-pound bombs just after release from moment required by the bombsight, this was no
some of these primitive racks. Some of these racks guarantee of hitting the target. Engineers studied
consisted of nothing more than straps which were the trajectories of bombs from the moment of
uncoupled when a cable was pulled by the pilot. release to ground impact, and made significant
Equally primitive aiming devices were developed. progress in quantifying bomb drag characteristics
But, by the end of World War I, aircraft were still and determining the best geometric shape to control
very ineffective in the bombardment mode. Most terminal velocities through wind tunnel and flight
post-war histories agree that aerial bombardment testing (Reference 3). But they were at a loss as to
had no effect on the war's outcome inasmuch as how to account for the very observable and unpre-
only a small percentage of the bombs hit the targets dictable pitching and yawing motions of bombs as
(Reference 1). they separated from the aircraft (Reference 4).
These engineers knew that motions changed bomb
Between the world wars, the technical community drag and degraded ballistic accuracy. But, since
focused on improving ballistic accuracy through the they did not know how to account for these mo-
development and use of bombsights as well as tions, they considered bombs as falling as a point
efficient bomb release mechanisms. Bombsights mass using 3-degree-of-freedom (3DOF) equations
were developed which used electric gyroscopes of motion coupled with the most reliable freestream
with stabilizing devices to maintain a true vertical bomb drag they had. As will be shown, this
reference line. The need for this true vertical procedure, for the most part, did not change for
reference line was one of the key lessons learned many years.
from the experience of World War I. Aircrews
found that they could not maintain the vertical During the 1920s and 1930s, aircrews developed
reference line needed for accurate bombing by bombing techniques to effectively use the new
relying on pendulum- or spirit-leveled instruments bombsights and racks. Basically, two techniques
since these instruments only gave indications of an were refined: dive-bombing and level-bombing.
apparent vertical which varied with each turn, Dive-bombing consisted of making a high-altitude
bump, pitch, or sideslip of the aircraft. In addi- approach followed by a steep dive (up to 60 de-
tion, aircrews could not even maintain a true and grees or more) toward the target. During the dive,
straight course. At best, they maintained a succes- in which airbrakes are sometimes used to control
sion of curved paths in which errors were accumu- speed, deviations in course were made to correct
lated until they were observed and then corrected. for initial aiming errors or wind. The bomb was
The substantial impact of errors in the apparent released as close to the target as dive recovery
vertical on ballistic accuracy was recognized in would allow. Dive-bombing used a sighting device
these early days. For example, one vintage test but not a bombsight. Yet accuracies were consid-
report from the 1920 era discusses the situation in ered to be quite good. In fact, accuracies of 150-
which a bomb dropped from an aircraft traveling 300 feet were regularly obtained by operational
100 miles per hour at 15,000 feet altitude would Army Air Corps squadrons (Reference 5). In
miss its target by 250 feet just from the effect of hindsight, this should not have been surprising
centrifugal force throwing off the apparent vertical since bomb times of fall were very small, thus
by only one degree if the aircraft had been in a minimizing induced errors from all sources.
very slow turn of 360 degrees every half-hour During peacetime, this technique may appear very
(Reference 2). appealing, but during wartime, against defended
targets, this technique loses its appeal, as was
Integral to the development of a gyroscope-driven proven by all combatants during World War 11.
bombsight was the development of a sighting For example, against undefended targets, the
apparatus whose primary function was to indicate, German Stuka was very effective. However,
at all times, the point on the ground where the against defended targets and/or in the face of
bomb would hit if it were released at that instant. enemy fighters, the Stuka was easily shot down
A complete bombsight was required to determine (Reference 5).
the speed and direction of the aircraft and of the
wind, in relation to the ground, to arrive at an Level-bombing using bombsights received consid-
apparent direction to reach a given target. As one erable publicity during the 1920 era with General
can surmise, these early pioneers were on the right Mitchell and his aircrews' sinkings of battleships.
track. But the result, then as today, was that even While this accomplishment bad significant ramifi-
if the aircrew released the bomb at the precise cations on the future strategy of airpower, the fact
was that General Mitchell and his aircrews prac- conducted by the Army Air Corps during which
ticed extensively by approaching and overflying bombs were released at high altitudes (around
ships at constant airspeeds and low altitudes 20,000 feet) against aircraft-carrier-size targets.
(Figure 4). The ships were stationary, and they Results showed average miss distances of over
were big ships! Yet, even under such ideal condi- 1,000 feet (Reference 6). Precision daylight
tions, ballistic accuracy was poor considering the bombing by the USAF was, in reality, carpet or
fact that most bombs missed their targets (Refer- saturation bombing. For a target like a bridge,
ence 6 ) . During one series of tests where bombs many aircraft were used to drop tons of bombs to
were released at high altitudes, not a single bomb achieve a high probability of hitting the target.
hit a ship (Reference 7). Eventually, ships were Figure 5 shows a knocked-out bridge. But notice
sunk from low altitudes by the small percentage of all the surrounding bomb craters and the relatively
bombs that did hit their targets. intact center span which was taken down by blast
effects from a near miss.
Although bombsights, racks, and bombs had been
considerably refined during the interlude from The period from World War I1 through the Korean
World War I to World War 11, minimal progress War and the beginning of the Vietnam War can be
had been made in improving overall ballistics showcased by the design of aircraft that were able
accuracy, particularly in the level-bombing tech- to carry heavier bomb loads faster and higher than
nique. Just as had occurred during World War I, before. The use of manual bombsights and simple
aircrews were forced to high altitudes to minimize bomb racks was still dominant. Bombs were re-
aircraft losses from enemy defensive fire. And, leased from aircra.ft using ballistics tables that were
just as in World War I, ballistic accuracy was based on freestream drag characteristics only. That
substantially degraded. For example, in 1938, just is, the effect of the aircraft on inducing bomb oscil-
before World War 11, a large-scale exercise was lations during separation was still not accounted

Figure 4. Martin Bomber Scoring Direct Hit on Battleship Alabama

with 25-Pound Phosphorus Bomb
 7

Figure 5. Bridge Destroyed Using Carpet Bombing

for. As a result, ballistic accuracy was still such bomb would be released automatically at the pre-
that, to ensure killing a target, many bombs had to cise time needed to hit the target without the pilot
be released against a target. A factor in this having to physically push a release button. Wheth-
number of bombs was that, since World War 11, er bombs were released using level- or dive-
bombs had generally gotten smaller. Bomb bombing techniques, all of the bombs were usually
weights predominately ranged from 250-750 dropped during one pass using a small time interval
pounds. It may be noted that, during World War between bombs in an attempt to bracket the target
11, bombs weighing 4,000 pounds, 12,000 pounds because of the earlier mentioned use of freestream
(Tallboy), and even 22,000 pounds (Blockbuster) bomb drag characteristics. Figure 6 shows a typi-
were used to compensate, in part, for the inability cal release of bombs in the ripple mode. At best, a
to reliably score direct hits (Reference 8). During pilot could not expect to hit closer than 250-350
the Vietnam War, extensive use was made of the feet of a target on a regular basis with a single
fighter-bomber. Again, to make up for shortcom- bomb (Reference 9). Reference 8 states that by the
ings in ballistics accuracy, multiple bomb racks, late 1960 period, no more than one-half the bombs
such as the triple ejector rack (TER), which could released could be expected to hit within 300-500
carry up to three bombs, and the multiple ejector feet of the target. Whichever figure is believable,
rack (MER), which could carry up to six bombs, both of them are too high in relation to the small
were developed. Also, fighter-bomber aircraft size of most bombs used today. It is conjecture
were equipped with hardpoints to carry several of that from the 1950 period through the 1960 period,
these racks. For example, with its six wing hard- these errors did not concern the operational
points and six multiple ejector racks, the A-7D community inasmuch as nuclear weapons were
could carry 32 MK 82 LDGP 500-pound bombs. available which did not need a high degree of
The A-7D was one of the first fighter-bomber accuracy. With the de-emphasis of nuclear wea-
aircraft to be equipped with an automated weapon pons, the need for high accuracy is of renewed
delivery system. With this system, the pilot could importance.
designate the target on his cockpit display and the
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Figure 6. Ripple Release of Six MK 82 LDGP 500-Pound Bombs from Mirage Aircraft in a Dive

Most aircraft are now equipped with automated 3.0 POTENTIAL FOR REDUCING
weapon-delivery systems and sophisticated support- BALLISTIC ERRORS
ing instrumentatiodsensors such as laser range-
finders and altimeters and high-speed digital In the early 1970 time period, analyses were per-
computers. This hardware, coupled with the tech- formed to evaluate the effects of various error
nical knowledge and procedures to quantify and sources on miss distance (Reference 10). These
correct ballistic errors, offers the potential for analyses were among the first of their kind per-
significantly improving accuracy. In fact, for formed and therefore provided valuable insight into
subsonic releases of bombs in the level and dive the sensitivity that various error sources have on
modes, bombing errors of under 50 feet and 20 ballistics accuracy. While analyses were somewhat
feet, respectively, are suggested as an achievable simplistic by today's technical standards, the results
goal. Using the right size stores, this would enable are still relevant today and offer a good introduc-
most targets to be killed with one bomb in one tion to the volume on ballistics. Errors from four
pass. This volume will now discuss some of the primary sources were analyzed:
procedures utilized to make improved accuracy a
reality.
 (1) Errors associated with aircraft release condi- that these errors were not correctable to any great
tions (50-foot altitude error, 10-knot airspeed extent. However, with modern weapon delivery
error, 0.1-degree pitch attitude error, and systems, this statement is no longer true. If suffi-
0.2-degree yaw error) cient testing is performed, separation effects can be
(2)Errors associated with bomb physical and measured and modeled in the form of algorithms
geometric properties (20-pound bomb weight and stored in the weapon delivery system's high-
error, 0.5-inch bomb diameter error, speed digital computer. With accurate modeling,
4-slug-ft2 bomb inertia error, and 5-percent the computer signals the weapons release system to
error in bomb freestream drag coefficient) release bombs at adjusted conditions to account for
(3) Errors due to non-standard atmospheric separation effects. As explained in detail in later
conditions (5-percent error in density) sections of this volume, the separation effects vary
(4) Errors due to bomb-separation effects during with aircraft release conditions, and are unique to
release from the aircraft (5degree error in each aircraft/store configuration. Thus, if separa-
bomb pitch attitude, 5-degree error in bomb tion effects were precisely measured, a very large
yaw attitude, 50-degree/second error in computer would be required to store and process
bomb pitching motion, and 2-foot/second all of the necessary data. At this time, while
error in the end of stroke velocity imparted modern aircraft have a substantial amount of
by the bomb by the aircraft's ejector rack). computer storage capacity, they do not have
enough capacity to store separation effects for all
Table I presents the raw data from the analyses for flight conditions and for all configurations, of
MK 82 LDGP 500-pound bombs at delivery condi- which there are usually hundreds for each aircraft.
tions of 450 and 860 knots in level and 45-degree Only land-based mainframe computers have this
dives. Table II presents a concise summary of data kind of storage capacity. However, aircraft
grouped by each of the four error sources. Refer- computers do have the capacity to store separation
ring to Table 11, at 450 knots for a level release, effects data for a limited number of configurations
57 percent of the total miss distance is due to air- at limited flight conditions. Thus, and most impor-
craft release condition errors (287 feet out of 501 tantly, if the operational user defines primary
feet). Separation effects are the next biggest con- go-to-war configurations along with combat deliv-
tributors to miss distance with 31 percent (150 ery conditions", separation effects data can be
feet), followed by bomb errors with 10 percent (53 modeled in the weapons delivery computer and be
feet), and atmospheric errors with 2 percent (11 almost entirely accountable. A reduction from 150
feet). As may be noted, these percentages are feet to less than 10 feet is postulated with proper
representative of those for the 860-knot, level- attention to this error source.
release condition and the dive condition at both
airspeeds with one exception. Note that the miss Miss distance due to errors in bomb physical and
distance due to bomb errors increases rather sub- geometric properties (53 feet) cannot be ignored.
stantially from 10 percent at 450 knots to 30 per- Such a miss distance would reduce probability of
cent at 860 knots in the level-release mode, primar- kill by a significant amount. Until recently, mass-
ily due to increased bomb time of fall. produced stores like the MK 82 formed a predomi-
nant portion of the USAF operational inventory.
Presently, fighter-bomber aircraft are equipped Manufacturing tolerances were rather loose to
with automatic weapon delivery systems. These minimize cost. This accounted for large variations
highly sophisticated systems are capable of releas- in weight, inertia, and even bombs being cast out
ing bombs at the precise point required to put them of round. Low-cost stores will always be avail-
on a trajectory to hit the target. In effect, there is able, but a trend exists toward developing stores
no reason that the 57-percent error in miss distance which, by their very nature, are manufactured with
due to aircraft release conditions cannot be reduced tighter tolerances. The new BLU-109 2000-pound-
by an order of magnitude or more when bombs are class warhead is a good example. The manufactur-
released in the automatic mode. A reduction from ing tolerances for the forged version of this war-
287 feet to less than 25 feet is postulated with head are substantially less than tolerances for the
proper attention to this error source. MK 84 LDGP. Tighter tolerances also apply to
other new stores like the CBU-87 and CBU-89
Miss distance due to separation effects is clearly cluster bombs. The point is that if the operational
very significant. In an earlier AGARDoGraph user wants to kill a point target in one pass, a new
(Reference l l ) , a statement was made to the effect class of bombs can be used that is manufactured
 Table I. Predicted Miss Distances of MK 82 Low-Drag General-Purpose Bombs Due to Various Error Sources - Raw Data

MlSS DISTANCE MISS DISTANCE MISS DISTANCE MISS DISTANCE

FROM AIRCRAFT SOURCES FROM BOMB SOURCES FROM ATMOSPHERE FROM SEPARATION EFFECTS

LEVEL REIE4SWMoo FT
450 KTAS 76 125 41 45 7 20 14 12 11 36 9 61 44
860 KTAS 117 130 127 80 67 170 14 90 90 83 19 68 68

45' DIVE RELEASW8ooo FT

450 KTAS 33 25 5 29 2 3 4 3 2 18 1 25 24
860 KTAS 21 75 3 35 3 5 2 2 4 26 1 19 17
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Table II. Predicted Miss Distances of MK 82 Low-Drag Geneml-Purpose Bombs Due to Various Error Sources Summary

MISS DISTANCE UN FEETl BY ERROR SOURCE

DELIVERY TOTALMISS SEPARATION

CONDITION DISTANCE AIRCm -
BOMB ATMOSPHERE EFFECTS

LEvELRELEASE/5OOo Fr
450 KTAS 501 287 (57%) 53 (10%) 11 (2%) 150 (31%)
860 KTAS 1123 454 (40%) 341 (30%) 90 ( 8 % ) 238 (22%)

4S4 DIVERELF.ASU8ooo Fr
450 KTAS 174 92 (53%) 12 (7%) 2 (1%) 68 (39%)

860 KTAS 219 140 (64%) 12 (5%) 4 (2%) 63 (39%)

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with much tighter tolerances than in the past and accomplished during the Development Test and
that minimizes errors in miss distance. Further, Evaluation W & E ) phase of a store program.
using modern instrumentation to track bombs During such testing, the contractor's drag and
during their fall, systematic test procedures, and event times are verified. Because all drag predic-
advanced data reduction techniques, bomb free- tion codes and wind tunnel test techniques have
stream drag coefficients can be established with a some limitations, no substitute exists for flight
high degree of precision. An overall reduction testing to validate drag and event times using actual
from 53 feet to less than 5 feet is postulated with hardware. The process of verifying or deriving
proper attention to this error source. freestream flight characteristics will be discussed in
a subsequent section of this volume.
Finally, a miss-distance error of 11 feet was calcu-
lated due to an atmospheric density of 5 percent. 4.2 Separation-Effects Testing
One cannot control the atmosphere, so this error is
accepted as a given fact. Separation effects occur when a store is released
from an aircraft and its motion is temporarily in-
The point of this discussion is that, with modern fluenced by the interaction of the non-uniform flow
weapon delivery hardware and software and with of air between the aircraft and the store (Figure 7).
proper testing and analyses, considerable reason Separation effects, for a given store are aircraft- and
exists for optimism that unguided stores can be configuration-dependent. That is, the flowfield
released with near-pinpoint accuracy. If multiple around an F-4 is not the same as it is around an
stores are released against a point target, target kill F-16. In the same vein, the flowfield of an aircraft
will almost be a certainty. loaded with stores on a multiple bomb rack is dif-
ferent than that with stores mounted on the same
4.0 OBJECTIVES OF BALLISTIC TEST aircraft, but on parent pylon raclts.
PROGRAMS
Separation-effects testing involves releasing stores
There may be several objectives to a weapon from an aircraft, one at a time, under controlled
system test program, but if ballistics are consid- test conditions. For example, time-space-position
ered, there are three basic objectives: information (TSPI) is gathered for both the aircraft
and the store from store release to store impact.
(1) To obtain flight test data necessary to estab- Data are used, as explained later, to quantify
lish store freestream flight characteristics changes in the store trajectory due to the aircraft
(2)To obtain the flight test data necessary to flowfield. Once separation-effects data are estab-
establish separation effects lished, they are mathematically modeled for use in
(3)To obtain the flight test data necessary to the aircraft weapon-delivery algorithm of the
establish the weapon delivery accuracy of the Operational Flight Program (OFP). The OFP is
aircraft's Operational Flight Program (OFP). used to compute the store range and time of flight
to the target using onboard aircraft data sources.
4.1 Freestream Testing Incidentally, the thrust of this discussion revolves
around the premise that all modern fighter-bomber
To aim a store so that it will hit a target, a knowl- aircraft are equipped with digital computerized
edge of the flight characteristics of the store as it weapon delivery systems rather &an manual sights
travels to the target is required. It is necessary to (that is, iron bombsight).
perform testing to obtain the data necessary to
establish or verify the store's drag, event times, It is noteworthy that all store configurations need
and other factors that affect the store's flight char- not be compensated for separation effects. For
acteristics. Freestream drag characteristics are example, the stores released as shown in Figure 6
generally independent of aircraft and mode of pcobably do not have measurable separation effects
delivery 1 to 3 seconds after release. Experience inasmuch as they separate with minimal angular
has shown that by this time, store motion is no perturbations, and hence, minimum variation in
longer influenced by the aircraft's flowfield. store freestream drag characteristics. When
Subsequently, store motion is damped to steady- conducting a test program, it is prudent to make a
st'ate conditions, and the store falls along a point- few carefully selected drops at the user's priori-
mass trajectory to its functioning point and/or tized combat delivery conditions to measure the
target impact. Freestream testing is usually accuracy of the aircraft using only store freestream
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CHANGES IN THE TRAJECTORY OF A WCAPON

DUE TO THE FLOW FIELD AROUND THE AIRCRAFT

I
I
I
I
1
I
1 I
\
\

\
LNFLUENCES OF
\
'. AIRCRAFT FLOWFIELD
'\,
APPROXMATELY 5 SECONDS
n m OF NGHT / ,\

*
.-. - - - - _ _ _ _ TRAJTCTMIY W M 1
---- SEPARAllON EFFECTS

Figure 7. Separation Effects Defined

drag data in the OFP. This method has, in fact, t = 0 at release) before they are fed to the air-to-
been used for several aircraft in recent years. Test ground integration routine contained in the OFP.
results have shown that, for some release condi- Adjusted velocity vectors are then used to calculate
tions and for some store loadings, accuracy was the store trajectory. These velocity adjustments, or
sufficient without separation-effects compensation. deltas, are derived from test drops and are curve-
Such testing can obviate the need for extensive test fitted to a function of Mach number and normal
and analyses. However, sound engineering judg- acceleration. The aircraft onboard computer uses
ment must be used. It would be incorrect to these functions to compensate for separation effects
assume that because a given store loadout displays for given store loadouts and delivery conditions.
negligible separation effects under one set of deliv- Obviously, the compensation is only as good as the
ery conditions, there will not he large separation separation-effects data. Because of computer
effects at different delivery conditions (for exam- storage limitations, modeling of data is not always
ple, different airspeed, altitude, normal accelera- precise. This is particularly true when there is a
tion, and dive angle). need to model several store loadouts over a broad
band of delivery conditions. It cannot be overstat-
Separation effects are modeled in an aircraft OFP ed that the reason user prioritization of loadouts is
in various ways. In the F-16, these effects are so important is to ensure that the most important
modeled by adjusting the velocity vectors in the loadouts are modeled as perfectly as possible.
along-track and vertical directions (assumed time
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4.3 OFF' Accuracy Testing 4.4 OFP Accuracy-Verification Process

This testing provides data for analysis of the entire If test results satisfy the user's accuracy criteria,
weapon delivery system. During testing, the pilot testing is considered complete. However, if the
attempts to hit simulated targets using sensors from user needs a higher degree of accuracy, additional
the aircraft weapon delivery system (for example, testing would be required. Figure 9 describes the
the Head-Up Display (HUD)). Tests are conducted OFP accuracy-verification process. Basically,
in a very systematic manner using appropriate there are three phases. In the first phase, stores are
instrumentation to facilitate proper analysis. For released using validated store freestream drag
example, the pilot attempts to designate the target characteristics modeled in the OFP. Usually a
precisely using HUD symbology (Figure 8). But if preproduction OFP is used which is called a "patch
this is not the case, an error is introduced. Fortu- tape". In addition, any validated or even estimated
nately, by having the HUD instrumented, errors in separation effects (for example, from actual results
designation can be detected and corrected for in the from similar store loadouts on the same or other
subsequent analyses. Results of testing are report- aircraft or from wind tunnel data) are included in
ed in terms of circular error probabilities (CEP) the OFP modeling. A sufficient number of stores
and range bias. CEP is the radius of a circle, are then dropped to establish statistical confidence.
centered on the target or mean point of impact, This number has been the subject of considerable
which contains 50 percent of all bombs dropped at controversy and will be discussed in a later section
a given set of delivery conditions for a specific of this volume. However, at this point, it is im-
loadout. Range bias is the distance that bombs hit portant to note that if results satisfy the user's cri-
long or short of the target. These two important teria, OFP accuracy will have been verified and
measures are used to gauge the effectiveness of Phase 1 is then complete. (Note: These discussions
killing a target. assume you have an A/C whose avionics, etc.,
have been verified.)

ACCURACY ANALYSIS

DID THE BOMB REALLY GO THERE ???

Figure 8. 'Igrget Designation on Heads-Up-Display

 ACCEPT E&CT

Figure 9. Ballistic Accuracy Verification Process

I l6 the user is not satisfied with Phase I results. and
If
after it has been validated that no aircraft avionics
problems exist with the non-ballistic portion of the
OFP, Phase I1 is conducted. In this phase, testing
craft. The additional cost of adding TSPI and
aircraft instrumentation readings to a mission is
very small compared to other mission costs.
Having these data available to the OFP analyst
is performed to gather additional separation-effects affords insight that would otherwise be lost as to
data to refine modeling of coefficients in the OFP. the probable causes of biases and dispersions.
Once the data have been analyzed and modeled, a
new patch OFP tape is generated. The tradeoff between increased accuracy and
resource expenditures is visibly illustrated by the
Phase 111, essentially a repeat of Phase I, is then following red-world example. In the mid-l980's,
performed. Stores are dropped to gather CEP and an operational evaluation of the F-16 with CBU-58
bias data. Data are reviewed by the operational stores showed that the stores hit short of the target
user for acceptability. If results are acceptable, the by a large and unacceptable distance. The free-
OFP is considered to have been verified. If not, stream ballistics of the CBU-58 had been well
the cycle is repeated, usually at continuing and established previously, and the aircraft weapon
frequently substantial expenditure of resources. delivery system had passed all checks. After fur-
ther analysis, it was determined that errors were
4.5 Tradeoff Between Accuracy and Re- primarily due to the separation effects not being
source Expenditures modeled in the OFP. As a result, extensive testing
was performed to gather separation-effects data.
As a final part of this discussion, it should be Data were analyzed and modeled, and a new OFP
pointed out that, although TSPI is not necessary to was prepared. Subsequent testing showed that
perform an OFP analysis, it is in the best interest errors were reduced by a very substantial 80
of the Air Force to gather as much of this data as percent (see Figure 10). At this time, the operation
possible on every weapon released from an air- user, satisfied with the large error reduction, asked

1 N'ITHOUT
SEPARATION
EFFECTS

GROUND
IMPACT
ERROR

WIM INITIAL
SEPARAllON
EFFECTS MODELING WIVI OPTlMlZED
SEPARAllON EFFECTS
MODELING

Figure 10. Tradeoff Between Accuracy and Resouirce Expenditures

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that testing continue to further reduce errors. ranging data to the target. These pods will use
Consequently, another cycle of testing and analysis laser technology and are expected to significantly
was performed, leading to a further reduction in enhance the accuracy of ranging information.
error. However, on hindsight, it is questionable
whether this additional cycle of testing and analysis Aircraft velocities are provided to the FCC by the
was required considering the fact that the CBU-58 CADC. The CADC takes pitot pressures and
is a cluster weapon. The resources necessary to derives the aircraft velocities through the air mass.
complete the three cycles required the expenditure The CADC provides calibrated airspeed, ground
of 200 stores in 50 flight test missions, took well speed, and true airspeed and then reports these
over a year to complete, and cost over one million velocities to the FCC. The FCC uses this data,
dollars. A lesson learned is that accuracy and along with INS data, to calculate wind speed and
resource expenditure tradeoffs should be consid- direction. Wind data is used in the FCC's trajec-
ered before testing begins. This consideration tory calculations, but since wind data is only avail-
would constrain a seemingly natural tendency on able at altitude, the FCC generally uses a linearly
the part of the operational user (and this is not a decaying function to calculate winds from the
criterion) to keep demanding more accuracy, irres- aircraft to the target altitude. The F-16 wind
pective of the resources required to achieve it. model assumes that the direction of the wind does
not change and that the wind speed at an altitude of
5.0 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF 4000 feet below the target altitude is zero. The
WEAPON DELIVERY SYSTEM FCC linearly models the wind from release altitude
to target altitude and uses the average value in its
5.1 Data Sources trajectory calculations. The F-15E model, on the
other hand, assumes a constant wind from release
Several data sources onboard an aircraft affect the altitude to the target altitude. An interesting
ability of the fire control system to calculate a comparison would be the effect of each wind model
weapon trajectory and to deliver that weapon on a on the overall weapon delivery system accuracy.
target accurately and effectively. For purposes of
illustration, F-16AIB data sources will be used in Accelerometers contained in the INS provide the
this discussion. Following are examples of identi- data necessary to compute aircraft accelerations,
fied major error sources, but are not necessarily velocities, altitudes, positions, and heading data.
all-inclusive. INS position data is used by the FCC's trajectory
integration whenever accurate radar data (for
Data sources are the Fire Control Radar (FCR), example, slant range) is not available. For this
Central Air Data Computer (CADC), Inertial reason, the INS becomes very important to aircraft
Navigation System (INS), and the Rate Sensor Unit bombing accuracy. Some drift is associated with
(RSU). These and other systems communicate any INS, and this drift is tolerated when it falls
with the Fire Control Computer (FCC) on a serial within specified limits. The rate of drift is measur-
digital multiplex (MUX) bus. It is interesting that, able by visually observing movements of HUD
by installing a data recorder on the MUX bus, one symbols and by comparing position errors on
can "listen in" on bus traffic, and this data can be return to a known point such as a hot pad or hang-
saved for later evaluation. Other aircraft systems er. Drift errors can be removed from the INS in
have similar types of data sources although the flight by using one of several INS update pro-
names may not be exactly the same. cedures. The most accurate procedure involves
visually acquiring a known steerpoint on the HUD
The FCR provides essential radar ranging data to and manually changing the location of the steer-
the FCC. In all visual delivery modes, the FCC point symbol to coincide with that steerpoint.
slaves the radar to the desired aim point. The These changes are fed back to the INS, and the
radar, in turn, provides the slant range to the aim aircraft position is updated accordingly.
point and the radar look-down angle. These inputs
enable the FCC to solve the "bombing triangle", The last system of interest is the RSU. This is the
that is, to calculate both the aircraft height above data source that provides the FCC with normal
and the distance along-track to the aim point. It acceleration values (g's) for use in separation effect
may be noted that Low Altitude Target Navigation calculations. It has been shown that g's have a
(LANTIRN) pods are planned to be used on later definite effect on the flowfield influences of a
models of the F-16 and F-15E to provide primary weapon at release. One reason is that different g's
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affect the time the store remains in the aircraft and unpredictable unless specific cases are investi-
flowfield. Another reason is that g’s change the gated. The worst case of all radar problems is
aircraft angle of attack which, in turn, affects the when the look-down angle is off and radar iranging
flowfield. is bad. On the F-16, if the FCC detects three
questionable radar slant range values in a row (for
5.2 Error Sources example, large jumps in value or no range data at
all), it will use the last valid range value and revert
Of all the external inputs to the FCC, errors asso- to using INS position data and system altitude (a
ciated with the FCR can have a profound effect on weighted average of INS and CADC altitudes as a
the air-to-ground accuracy. Essentially, the slant function of vertical velocity) for its calculations.
range and lookdown angle of the radar provide the
basic starting point to the FCC air-to-ground inte- Errors in the CADC affect velocity inputs to the
gration routine. The FCC uses these inputs to FCC and introduce false wind data into the system.
calculate the aircraft height above the target. In many instances, CADC errors are a result of
Therefore, if errors in this data are not detected, foreign objects getting into the pitot tubes and ports
the value of the FCC integration can be greatly on the surface of the aircraft. Here the pilot and
degraded. The same will hold true for data with ground crew play major roles in preventing bad
LANTIRN when it becomes available. data from entering the air-to-ground calculations.

The effects of errors in radar ranging are fairly Since velocity and acceleration are important parts
straightforward. If the FCR reports a value which of the weapon delivery calculations, errors asso-
is smaller than it should be, the resulting bomb ciated with the E”S can also have a significant
range calculated will also he shorter than it should impact on bombing accuracy. INS errors are not
be. This is true because the aircraft thinks it is as specific as radar errors, and many are caused by
closer to the ground than it actually is. Conse- erroneous pilot inputs rather than hardware prob-
quently, the aircraft will be allowed to travel closer lems. If the system is not initialized properly, it
to the target before release, and bombs will fall will be inaccurate for the duration of the flight.
long of the aim point. Along the same line, a
reported slant range which is larger than it should As with the INS, the RSU provides data relating
be results in the bombs impacting short of the the dynamics of flight to the FCC. Errors from the
target. RSU are limited to the normal acceleration of the
aircraft. This limitation directly affects the accura-
Since errors in the radar look-down angle are cy of any separation effect compensation computa-
associated with the physical radar antenna mounts tions since these computations are a function of
in the nose of the aircraft, the effects of these normal acceleration.
errors require study to understand. In all visual
air-to-ground modes, the FCC commands the radar Another error source, which is not due to external
to look at a designated point on the ground. If the input hut which does have a direct effect on
radar antenna is not aligned properly, the look- bombing accuracy, is the alignment of the HUD
down angle value reported to the FCC will not Pilot Display Unit (PDU). The steering and
reflect the true lookdown angle of the antenna. If, aiming symbols are projected on this surface. If
for instance, the antenna look-down angle reported this plate is not aligned at the proper angles, the
is less than the actual angle, the radar will be HUD symbology will be improperly located and
slaved to a point further down range than it should aiming errors will occur. For instance, if the plate
be. In effect, it will give a higher value for the is set too low, the pipper appears lower in the
slant range. The resulting altitude calculations are, HUD field of view. This appearance causes the
therefore, degraded not only as a function of the aircraft to be flown closer to the target before
sine of the look-down angle error but also as a weapon release, resulting in an impact long of the
function of the aircraft speed and actual altitude as aim point (see Figure 11). Along the same lines, a
well. In addition to this, as the grazing angle (the plate set too high will cause an impact short of the
angle at which the radar heani strikes the ground) intended aim point.. Errors due i o improper align-
decreases, the allowable tolerance in the radar slant ment are compounded by the fact that any symhol-
range increases, adding further errors to the sys- ogy that has been corrected for canopy distortion is
tem. In summary, errors associated with false now being projected on a different area of the
antenna look-down angle values are compounded canopy and would require a different correction.
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HUD PLATE TOO HIGH

I

PROPER HUD ALIGNMENT

HUD PLATE TOO LOW

PLATE TOO HIGH I 1 SHORT IMPACT

PLATE TOO LOW I 1 LONG IMPACT

PIPPER DISPLAYS/RESULTS

Figure 11. HUD Boresight

Separation-effects compensation has a significant position above the water line of the aircraft where
bearing on the accuracy of any weapon-delivery the pilot's head must be to properly view the HUD.
system. Any errors which may have occurred
during separation-effects testing or analysis and However, at any given position, only a portion of
gone undetected will cause errors in bombing. the HUD is visible. At no time can the pilot see
Also, inadequate separation-effects testing can be the entire field of view of the HUD. Therefore,
an error source itself because under- or over- the position of the pilot's head must change in
compensation of separation effects may result. order to view the desired portion of the HUD. If
Many difficult lessons have been learned in the past the HUD PDU has been properly aligned, the pilot
about the artificial savings of inadequate testing. is then, by definition, at design eye.
As the saying goes, "There is never enough time
(or money) to do the job right the first time, but HUD parallax errors are not directly related with
there is always enough to do it again!" There is no air-to-ground weapon delivery accuracy as they do
substitute for careful, experienced engineering not relate to the HUD but to the accuracy of the
judgment in separation-effects analyses. HUD video recorder. The pilot usually has the
option of recording on video tape the view through
As a part of this discussion of error sources, two the HUD at any given moment, and often this
more factors need to be considered: design eye and recording is used to determine where the pilot was
HUD parallax errors. Design eye is defined as the aiming in relation to a target after the flight. Paral-
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lax errors are a result of optical distortions encoun- 6.0 DEVELOPMENT OF A, WEAPON
tered in looking through the canopy of the aircraft. SYSTEM TEST PROGRAM
The canopy has a known and correctable optical
distortion. This distortion is corrected by using a 6.1 Test Matrix Development
mathematical function in the FCC to place the
symbols properly on the HUD to compensate for Factors to be considered when developing the
distortion errors. The problem arises when a matrix include the type of weapon, the weapon
recording is made. The position of the video functioning envelope, and the number of weapons
camera may be lower than the pilot's head. needed to satisfy test objectives.
Consequently, symbology which has been correct-
ed for the pilot's viewpoint may not necessarily be 6.1.1 Types of Weapons
in the correct location for the camera's viewpoint
(see Figure 12). It may be noted that parallax Basically, there are two types of free-fall (unpow-
errors have only recently been acknowledged by ered) weapons: intact and functioning. A MK 82
the test community. Efforts are being made, LDGP bomb is an example of an intact weapon,
however, such as by the F-16 community, to and a MK-20 Rockeye dispenser is an example of a
correct these errors on the ground so that when a functioning weapon (the dispenser separates, re-
video tape is viewed, the actual pilot input or view leasing submunitions at specified time or altitude).
is seen rather than a misleading representation of Both types of weapons may have components or
what occurred. Parallax errors have also been events that alter the weapon flight characteristics.
uncovered on other aircraft types, and similar For example, the GBU-24 guided bomb is an intact
efforts are underway to solve the problem. weapon hut has stabilizing fins which deploy in two

PIPPER LOCATION
CAMERA LINE

PILOT EYE LINE

HUD VIDEO CAMERA

DISPLAYED PIPPER IS CORRECTED FOR OPllCAL DISTORTION AT POINT A

CAMERA VlEWS PIPPER THROUGH CANOPY AT POINT B

Figure 12. HUD Parallax Errors

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stages after a period of time. This two-stage For freestream testing of non-functioning weapons,
deployment affects the store trajectory and a minimum of 36 stores is required to fully charac-
must be accounted for in ballistic calcula- terize ballistic performance. This figure is ob-
tions. Functioning weapons add even more tained as follows: one store should be released in
complexity because submunitions form a level flight, a loft, and a dive. If the store is not
pattern that must be modeled in order to designed to be released in one of these modes,
predict pattern size. This pattern size is a testing is reduced proportionally. One store should
function of release conditions and time of also be released at the lowest operational speed, at
dispenser functioning which combine to medium speed, and at the highest operational
form an almost unlimited combination of speed. This release plan requires nine stores.
conditions that could be tested. However, to establish a reasonable level of con-
fidence as to the results, a minimum of four releas-
6.1.2 Weapon Functioning Envelope es at each test condition is recommended, bringing
the minimum total number of stores required to 36.
The flight conditions at which the weapon will
properly work as designed is the weapon hnction- For freestream testing of functioning weapons, a
ing envelope. This envelope is usually defined minimum of 216 stores is required to freely charac-
during the Developmental Test and Evaluation terize ballistic performance. This figure is ob-
W&E) phase of the weapon program and must be tained by using the test points for nonfunctioning
considered when designing a test matrix. For stores with these additions: three timer values for
example, one horror story involves extensive test- dispenser functioning (36x3 = 108) and three al-
ing of a weapon that was performed at low speeds titudes for dispenser functioning (36x3= 108)
even though it was known that the weapon fuze should be tested at each condition. This additional
would not function at low speeds. (However, this testing is essential to validate that the store fuze
information was not known by the test organization functions as designed in the time and altitude
at the time of testing.) In another test program, (proximity) modes. If the fuze only has one or the
cluster weapons were released at altitudes and other modes, testing time will be shortened. This
speeds at which submunitions could not arm due to testing is important because of the ramifications of
insufficient time of fall. The test matrix must be timing/altitude errors on submunition pattern size.
designed with a complete knowledge of the weapon One might wonder why this testing cannot be
functioning envelope in mind. Obviously, these are conducted in the laboratory. The experience of
examples of weapon testing with lessons learned analysts at Eglin indicates that there is no substitute
that must not be forgotten. for an end-to-end validation of the all-up store.

As mentioned earlier, the weapon functioning It cannot be overemphasized that the number of
envelope is determined during store DT&E to releases at each condition can either be determined
validate design requirements. For example, a new by statistics or by analyst experience. The number
cluster weapon recently placed in production was determined by the analyst will usually be less than
designed to function from 200 feet to 40,000 feet the number determined statistically. For example,
over an airspeed range of 200 knots to 700 knots. if one wanted to establish ballistics (that is, free-
Here was a case where testing had to be performed stream drag coefficient) to the 85 percent accuracy
using several different aircraft types because one level with a confidence of 95 percent, 19 stores
aircraft could not cover the entire envelope. The would be required. From a purely statistical stand-
point is that, when designing a test matrix, both point, the confidence level drops to 50 percent with
store functioning envelopes and aircraft operating only four stores. However, the experience of
envelopes must be properly considered. analysts at Eglin has been that data from four
stores yields fully adequate data. One way this has
6.1.3 Number of Weapons Required for been validated is by the addition of data from
Store Freestream Testing subsequent releases to the original databases.
Subsequent data was, and presently is, obtained
The number of weapons required not only depends from instrumented operational evaluations and
on the type of weapon and functioning envelope but from other DT&E tests wherein stores are released
also on the type of testing to be performed. for other purposes and ballistics data are obtained
on a piggyback @on-interference) basis.
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To achieve the 95-percent accuracy level with a mum of three airspeeds and at load factors that
confidence of 95 percent, 60 stores would have to cover the g range sufficiently 10 permit modeling
be dropped. To achieve 100-percent accuracy and between data points. Since MK 82's are en~ployed
confidence, all stores in the inventory would have in the level-release mode (1 g), dive mode (as low
to be released, and none would be left for combat. as 0.5 glcosine of 60-degree dive angle), dive toss
The point is that there is no substitute for experi- mode (nominal 2.5 g), and loft mode (nominal
ence and judgment when determining the number 4.0 g), data must be obtained for each mode.
of stores to be released to establish reasonable Finally, at least four data points are required for
confidence in the data. Establishing databases each carriage station at each release condition.
from a purely statistical standpoint must, therefore, Since the loadout is symmetrical, two data points
be kept in perspective to minimize the expenditure are automatically obtained for each station when all
of resources. This expenditure is doubly important 12 bombs are released. Therefore, for each mode,
because as stores get more complex, they are stores required would be as follows:
produced in more limited numbers and unit costs
rise substantially. In fact, many stores have 1 (altitude) x 3 (airspeeds) x 1 (load factor)
become so expensive that their costs dwarf the x 4 (points) x 12 stations I 2) = 72 stores
actual test costs.
For all four modes, 72 x 4 = 288 stores would be
One final note is necessary on the desired altitude required.
for performing releases to gather freestream data.
At Eglin, stores are generally released in the level Finally, consider an F-16 with Durandal ivnway
and dive modes at altitudes ranging between 8,000 attack bombs (symmetrical loading of two bombs
and 12,000 feet. For large stores, the altitude is on each side of the aircraft). For each mode, store
adjusted higher, and for small stores, the altitude is required would be as follows:
adjusted lower. Ideally, stores are released at al-
titudes as high as possible, consistent with the abili- 1 (altitude) x 3 (airspeeds) x 1 (load factor)
ty to track them, so that data are obtained from re- x 2 (4 bombs in loadout) = 24 stores
lease Mach to terminal Mach. For the loft mode,
stores are usually released at altitudes lower than Since Durandals are only employed in the level and
500 feet. In this mode, data are obtained from shallow-dive modes, a total of 4.8 stores would be
release Mach to a minimum Mach as the store required.
decelerates in its upward trajectory, and then in-
creasing Mach, usually less than terminal velocity, To ensure obtaining adequate trajectory informa-
before the store impacts the ground. In this way, tion for coefficient modeling for functioning stores,
with three delivery conditions and three speeds, the separation-effects testing should either be conduct-
full Mach range is comprehensively covered. ed with inert stores or with delayed fuzing to
prevent dispenser functioning until at least 8-10
6.1.4 Number of Weapons Required for seconds after release. This arrangement is import-
Separation-Effects Testing ant because some dispensers function in less than 2
seconds.
Store separation effects are highly dependent on the
aircraft loadout. Therefore, because of aircraft Although testing at three airspeeds (low, medium,
OFP data storage capacity limitations, usually and high) is recommended, one must be aware that
separation-effects testing is only performed for one a risk is involved in modeling data for intermediate
or two loadouts of each store type (for example, a airspeeds and airspeeds beyond the tested envelope.
parent pylon and a multiple carriage configuration). This risk would be relatively high if the test de-
In discussing how to structure a matrix, several signer did not have an historical databaw for
examples will be used. guidance. This risk is illustrated in Figure 14.
Assume that separation-effects data were obtained
Consider an F-15E with 12 MK 82's loaded on for configuration A at three airspeeds as shown.
fuselage conformal rack stations. Six bombs in two Because the magnitude of separation effects is rela-
rows of three each are loaded on the left side of the tively insensitive to airspeed, mathematical fit
aircraft, with the same number loaded symmetrical- techniques would model a curve quite accurately.
ly on the right side (see Figure 13). As in the case However, consider configuration B. The magni-
of freestream testing, data are required at a mini- tude of separation effects is ahout the same at low
Figure 13. F-15Ewith Loadout of 12 M K 82 LDGP Bombs N
w
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I
I I I
AIRSPEED

<RATION
I -- A

b,
CONFIGURATION E

ACTUAL
TRAJECTORY

CURVE FIT
TRAJECTORY

@ INITIAL TEST POINTS

0 ADDITIONAL TEST POINTS

Figure 14. Effect of Airspeed and Configuration on Separation Effects

and medium airspeeds but is orders of magnitude as a guide to select better test points for new stores
larger at the highest airspeed. A mathematical fit and loadouts. With experience, and for configura-
of the three data points might yield the curve tion B, the analyst would undoubtedly shift the low
shown, which could be considerably different from speed data point to an intermediate speed (between
actual results. This situation actually occurred. the original medium and high speed points).
The aircraft OFP was modeled using three data
points. Subsequent accuracy testing performed by The need to obtain adequate test data to model g
operational users revealed substantial range errors effects is equally important. Separation effects are
in the airspeed regime covered by the medium and affected by aircraft release g and can be substantial
high airspeeds. Errors were subsequently traced to for some conditions and loadouts. As one may
inaccurate separation-effects modeling. Range imagine, at low g (for example, 0.5), stores remain
errors were eliminated by gathering additional data in the influence of the aircraft flowfield for a
at intermediate speeds (shown by rectangles). longer time than if stores are released at high g (for
Obviously, there is no substitute for experience in example, 6.0). If g effects are to be modeled in an
designing the test matrix, a verification that the accurate manner, at least three data points are
workbook approach will not always work. With required at each condition to be able to form a
experience, the analyst has a good knowledge of curve. The same precautions that were discussed
the shapeltrend of separation-effects data for vari- relative to airspeed must also be observed for g.
ous stores and loadouts. This information is used
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Regarding the altitude for separation-effects test- At Eglin, a range bias is presumed not to exist for
ing, 3000-5000 feet is generally used at Eglin for probabilities greater than 90 percent, using a one-
level and divddive-toss modes if recovery altitude tailed cumulative binominal test. This 90-percent
permits. This altitude range provides optimum value was arrived at based on the experience of
film coverage for the Eglin arrangement of aircraft engineers from several test agencies. Table I11
approach tracks and ground camera positions. At indicates that if 5 of 15 stores impact the ground
these altitudes, the cameras are able to record the long of the target, and the balance impact short of
initial stores trajectory in a manner that facilitates the target, then a probability of bias is assumed not
data analyses. Altitudes of less than 500 feet are to exist. If o d y 4 of 15 stores bit long or short,
usually used for loft modes. then a probability of bias is assumed to exist.
Probabilities for other combinations of the number
Finally, one may wonder why stores have to be of stores dropped and those that hit long or short
released for each carriage station. The answer is can he similarly derived from this figure. Clearly,
that separation effects are different for each station, the more evenly balanced the short versus long
and for that reason, each station must be character- numbers are, the less likely there is for a bias to
ized. What happens with data from each station? exist. Ideally, it would be desirable to assess CEP
As unsophisticated as the procedure seems, data for without a range bias. However, this is not a pre-
all stations are averaged to arrive at one separation- requisite. CEP can be assessed with a range bias.
effects modeling for a given loadout. In the future, However, one would want to investigate the source
software and hardware may allow each station to of the range bias before rendering an overall as-
be modeled in the aircraft OFP, but at the present sessment of system accuracy.
time, this is not being done on any USAF aircraft
familiar to the authors. A final note is appropriate regarding the use of 12
stores to assess CEP. Figure 15 shows the number
of stores required to estimate CEP as a function of
6.1.5 Number of Weapons Required for confidence level and acceptable percentage error in
OFP Accuracy Testing CEP. This figure was formulated on the basis that
range and deflection errors are independent. This
Once separation-effects data have been gathered approach is substantiated based on the work con-
and modeled, it is necessary to perform testing to tained in References 12-14 and is quite important in
validate the OFP. This testing provides an end-to- that, if this were not the case, the number of stores
end systems assessment of the overall accuracy of required would be doubled. Note that 12 stores
the weapons delivery system (which also includes equate to a confidence level of 80 percent that the
freestream store drag data). sample CEP is within 30-percent error of the true
CEP. Again, why accept 80-percent confidence
A minimum of 12 stores is recommended for each with 30-percent error of the true CEP? The
release mode. This means that, in the case of the answer lies in the experience and general accept-
12-bomb F-15E configuration discussed previously, ance of results by operational users over the years.
four missions would be required. That is, all 12
bombs would be released at combat airspeeds in Another approach to determine the number of
each release mode. A CEP and range bias evalua- stores required has been developed by the USAF
tion is then performed, and the results are com- SEEK EAGLE Office. This approach is docu-
pared to the accuracy criteria. If the criteria are mented in Reference 15 and is based on the number
met, then testing is terminated. If criteria are not of stores required to improve CEP by at least one
met, the operational user decides whether further percent for each additional store released. This
analysis/testing is required (which may involve approach can be compared to the law of diminish-
rederivation of separation-effects modeling or ing returns in business or economics. Using this
modification to the aircraft weapon delivery system approach for the same confidence level of 80
itself), whether less accurate results can, in fact, be percent in the earlier example, 16 stores with a
accepted, or whether the loadout must be rejected. CEP that would be within 25 percent of the true
CEP would be required (see Figure 15). This
A few comments are appropriate regarding the approach has merit, but it requires more stores and
criteria for determining whether a range bias exists a higher degree of CEP accuracy at comparable
and the basis for recommending 12 stores per confidence levels than the analytical approach
release condition. mentioned earlier. The reader must determine
Table III. Probabilities Associated with Values as Small as Observed Values of X in the Binomial Test
Onetailed probabilities under H, for the binomial test when P = Q 5 %.

NUMBER OF BOMBS LONG OR SHORT OF AIMPOINT

W \ x l 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

.344 .656 .891 .984 ***

.227 SO0 .773 .938 .992 ***
.145 .363 .637 .855 .965 .996 ***
.254 SO0 .746 .910 .980 .998 ***
A72 .377 .623 .828 .945 .989 .999 ***
.967 .994 *** ***

.001 .006 .029

.387 .613 .SO6 .927 .981
367 .954
,788 .910
.997
.989
,971
***
.998
.994
*.
***
.999
***
*** ***
,304 SO0 ,696 .849 .941 .982 ,996 *** *** ***
.227 .402 .598 .773 .895 ,962 .989 .998 *** ***
.315 SO0 .685 .834 .928 .975 .994 .999 ***
.OOl .004 . .240 .407 393 .760 .881 .952 .985 .996 .999
.324 so0 .676 a20 .9i6 .968 .990 .wa
.001 .006 .021 .252 .412 .588 ,748 368 .942 .979 .994
.001 .004 .013 .192 .332 SO0 .668 308 .905 .961 ,987
.002 ,008 .026 A43 .262 .416 .584 .738 .857 .933 .974
.001 .005 .017 ...... .... ..-.a.......
~

,,
.lo5
: ~
. ....:.:
....... ".,,
.202 .339 s o 0 .661 .798 .a95 .95?
.001 ,003 .011 .032 ....*.... ...,..... .. .154 .271 .419 .581 .729 .846 .924
.002 .007 ,022 s;W$ .I15 .212 245 SO0 .655 .788 .$e
* Adapted from Table W,B, of Walker, Helen, and Lev, J. 1953.Statistical inference. New York Holt, p. 458
*** 1.0 or approximately 1.0
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NUMBER OF WEAPONS M A T MELD AT LEAST A 1-PERCENT

IMPROMMENT IN ACCEPTABLE ERROR IN CEP

CONFIDENCE LEMLS
0.80 0.85 0.90 0.95
30

25
v)
z
x
9
.I
0
LL
Y
m
I
3
z
20

15
15 20 25 30
ACCEPTABLE ERROR ('6) CEP

Figure 15. Recommended Number of Weapons

what approach best satisfies the test requirements correct alignment of the radar antenna, the HUD
and those of the operational user. This discussion PDU, the INS mounting brackets, and the RSU
should serve to bracket the approximate number of mounting brackets. For the sake of illustration,
stores required for OFP accuracy testing. F-16AIB systems are used; however, calibration of
other types of aircraft is very similar. Each of
7.0 FLIGHT TEST PREPARATIONS these systems plays a vital role in air-to-ground
weapon delivery accuracy. Any errors associated
7.1 Instrumentation Calibration and Verifi- with these systems will have a definite, and some-
cation times unpredictable, effect on bombing accuracy.
Accuracy data can he a valuable by-product of both
7.1.1 Aircraft Boresighting separation-effects testing and freestream ballistics
testing. Therefore, it is essential that all aircraft
Before any flight testing begins, the aircraft that is systems he calibrated properly.
to be used in the test must he boresighted to ensure
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The actual boresighting procedure is straightfor- approximate 33-foot-long range bias when releas-
ward. The radar antenna, HUD PDU, INS, and ing BDU-33's. This bias, coupled with a nominal
RSU are removed from the aircraft. An optical 4- to 5-mil ballistic dispersion for the BDU-33, led
fixture is hung on the front of the aircraft in place to the following guidelines:
of the antenna. The aircraft reference line, or
water line, is then determined by using optical a. If the mean point of impact (MPI) is the
fixtures mounted on the nose and main landing point which has, as its range/deflection
gear. This reference line is determined by sighting coordinates the arithmetic mean of the range
from the main gear fixtures forward to the nose and deflection coordinates of the impact
fixture. Once this reference line is established, the points, is less than 50 feet from the target
antenna, HUD PDU, INS, and RSU mounts are all center, and there is random clustering about
aligned to it. Once these alignments are made, the the target, the aircraft is accepted as having
fixtures are removed and the systems reconnected. no system problems.
Since the antenna mounts are usually held in place
with an epoxy resin compound which must be b. With a 50- to 60-foot MPI bias, the aircraft
allowed to cure, the total boresighting procedure is accepted with skepticism, and in. most
requires several days to complete. In many cases, cases retesting is required.
however, a boresight confidence check can be
made in much less time. The confidence check c. If the MPI is greater than 60 feet, reaccom-
measures the boresight but does not correct errors. plishment of footprinting is required follow-
If unacceptable errors are detected, a full boresight ing an investigation into aircraft hardware/-
must be performed. software problems.

7.1.2 Aircraft Footprinting Once footprinting has been successfully accom-

plished, then the aircraft is considered to be truly
In order to accurately assess the capabilities of an representative of typical aircraft.
aircraft's OFP to deliver weapons on target, air-
craft used in the test must be validated as being 7.1.3 Aircraft Systems Check
typical of those used in the operational inventory.
Footprinting is one method used to determine Even though a specific aircraft has been boresight-
whether a given test aircraft is a true representation ed and footprinted and found to be representative
of typical aircraft used every day by pilots of operationd aircraft, there is always a chance
throughout the WAF. that errors can develop in the systems at any time.
In order to ensure the absence of errors between
Footprinting is accomplished by using the test the time the aircraft was boresighted and footprint-
aircraft to drop a series of stores, usually ed and the start of each mission, a series of ma-
BDU-33's, and observing the resulting impact neuvers is made over the target prior to releasing
patterns. More than one delivery mode is used, any stores. This aircraft-system check can detect
and the results are compared by delivery mode. radar-ranging errors, excessive INS drift errors,
Pilots flying the missions are briefed to fly the and accelerometer errors.
aircraft at specific delivery conditions of airspeed,
altitude, and dive angle and to put the pipper on the The check usually consists of a set of three diving
target while flying the aircraft in a smooth and passes made over the target. In the first pass, the
stable manner up to, and during, stores release. aircraft is flown towards the target in a medium
Incidentally, BDU-33's are generally used because dive (usually 30 degrees). When approaching the
they are cheap, mass properties are very consistent, target, the pilot designates the target visually on the
freestream drag is very well defined, and separa- HUD and confirms that the radar is ranging
tion effects are usually minimal. smoothly to the ground by watching the radar
range indicator displayed on the HUD. At this
After each mission, any pilot aiming errors are point, gross radar-ranging errors become evident
removed by reviewing the HUD video and compar- (Figure 16). As the aircraft nears the target, the
ing pipper position to the target. Aim-point-cor- pilot is instructed to pulse the stick to cause dyna-
rected impacts are then evaluated using pre-estab- mic acceleration changes. If the Target Designator
lished guidelines. For example, analysts' experi- (TD) box displayed on the HUD jumps erratically,
ence at Eglin has determined the F-16 to have an accelerometer errors are evident. At this point, the
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SYSTEMS CHECK PASS 1

m
I 5wo I
TO BOX ON TARGET

RADAR RANGE

IF RANGING IS IF RANGING IS
SHORT. INS LONG. INS
WlLL M I N K TARGET WlLL THINK TARGET
IS HERE IS HERE
DESIGNATE TARGET
0 CONFIRM RANGING
0 PULSE STICK

Figure 16. Systems Cheek -Pass 1

pilot is instructed to pull off the target, leaving the errors of one to two feet per second are usually
target designated. The INS, if it is functioning within INS design specifications.
properly, will keep track of the target location and
display the TD box on the HUD when the target is Upon target designation in the first pass, radar
again in its field of view. range to the target was determined. If there had
been errors in the slant range reported to the FCC,
On the second pass, the aircraft is again flown in the INS will have been given false target location
the same dive toward the target and along the same data. Once these errors and drift errors from the
track used in the first pass. When approaching the second pass have been corrected and additional
target, the pilot is instructed to note the position of inputs are made to compensate for anticipated drift,
the TD box relative to the target. If the TD box a third pass is performed. The third pass is a run
has drifted off the target, it is slewed or manually at the target at 90 degrees to the original attack
moved through pilot input in the direction opposite heading, again in the same dive; however, the TD
the drift (approximately two-thirds of the amount box is not slewed. Errors in radar slant range will
of drift off the target), as shown in Figure 17. be represented by an offset of the TD box from the
Again, the pilot pulls off the target. At this point, target. If the TD box is displayed uprange of the
any large INS drift errors become apparent. Drift target on the original run-in line, the radar is re-
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SYSTEMS CHECK PASS 2

PILOT SLEWS 2/3 DISTANCE

OPPOSllE DRIFT

TD BOX HAS DRIFTED

1 5wo 1 RADAR RANGE

PASS 2 RUN-IN LINE

\

NOTE TD BOX LOCATION AND DRIFT

SLEW TD BOX 2/3 DISTANCE OPPOSITE TARGET

Figure 17. Systems Check -Pass 2

porting short slant range values. Conversely, if cannot be removed from the data after the mission.
the TD box is displayed downrange of the target, The pilot is further responsible for validating that
the radar is reporting long slant range values (see all stores are properly loaded on the aircraft includ-
Figure 18). ing lanyards, fuzes, timer settings, and the like. A
walk around the aircraft prior to takeoff will usual-
7.2 Pilot Procedures ly reveal any loading errors to the thoroughly alert
pilot. Once in the cockpit, the pilot ensures that all
In addition to performing aircraft system checks, avionics equipment is properly functioning and that
the pilot is instructed to fly strictly defined delivery the correct weapon information has been loaded
conditions. Stores are generally released one at a into the system. It is imperative that the pilot have
time and in a specific release sequence. It is vital a good understanding of both the aircraft and
to a successful test that the release sequence be weapon systems being used.
known to the analyst since ejection velocities and
separation characteristics are station-dependent. 7.3 Test ConstraintslTolerances
Also, the pilot must have aircraft wings level and
avoid any abrupt maneuvers at the time of release As with any test performed to measure specific
that would input dynamic data changes into the fire parameters, it is essential to hold as many variables
control system or introduce side forces which constant as possible. For this reason, constraints
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SYSTEMS CHECK PASS 3

INDICATES SHORT RANGING r2R L-2 INDICATES LONG RANGING

,( 5wo 1 RADAR RANGE

TD BOX SHOULD BE ON TARGET

,\

3 RUN-IN LINE
TD BOX LEFT OR RIGHT INDICATES RANGING ERRORS '\
,PASS
\

Figure 18. Systems Check -Pass 3

or tolerances should be placed on several different weather conditions such as wind speed and direc-
parameters. For example, there should be con- tion, temperature, air pressure, and air density
straints covering airspeed, altitude, dive angle, cannot be measured real-time during a mission.
normal acceleration, and weather conditions. Data are gathered either prior to, or just after, the
These constraints must be designed to limit data mission. Unfortunately, this can introduce errors
errors and yet be practical for the pilot. into the data by virtue of the fact that weather
conditions change, sometimes quickly, from the
In general, flight condition tolerances should be set time they are measured to the time the mission is
to correspond to the ability of test personnel. The flown.
author's experience has been that most pilots are
abIe to control airspeed within & 20 KTAS, alti- Of all the weather parameters, wind speed has the
tude within 500 feet (except in loft deliveries in greatest effect on the accuracy of trajectory data.
which case the limits are tighter on the positive In most cases, wind speed is measured by launch-
side), and dive angle within 5 degrees. Natural- ing a balloon with an instrumentation package
ly, some pilots are able to achieve a much higher either before or after a flight. Even if the average
degree of precision in their deliveries. wind speed and direction do not change over the
entire mission, the variable that cannot be held
Limits on weather enhance the analyst's confidence constant or accurately modeled is wind gusts. For
in results of post-flight data analyses. Typically, these reasons, analysts at Eglin place restrictions
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on allowable wind speed and gusts measured at Figure 19. Approximately 120 land receivers are
ground level. This approach is taken because serviced by IRIG-transmitted time. Three Loran C
experience has shown that as average wind speed synchronized time-code generators, which drive the
increases, the frequency and magnitude of wind transmitter, have identical accumulators and divi-
gusts also increase. Again, wind limits must be sion circuits for reliability.
designed to be practical while, at the same time,
providing a reasonable level of confidence in the At Eglin, cinetheodolite cameras record encoded
data. At Eglin, surface wind speeds up to 20 knots azimuth (angle measured clockwise from north to
with gusts not to exceed 10 knots are typically the tracked object) and elevation (vertical angle
allowed. These are typical values and are frequent- measured between the cinetheodolite and the
ly changed as mission reqyirements vary. For tracked object) with the encoded frame number on
example, the effect of wind speed on a MK 82 each frame of film at 5 , 10, 20, or 30 franies per
LDGP bomb is much less than on a MK 82 Sna- second. Thirty-five-millimeter cameras are most
keye (high drag) because time of fall is less. So, a frequently used to gather TSPI and to record such
higher wind speed might be allowed for a MK 82 aspects as store-event times, fin opening, chute
LDGP than for a MK 82 Snalceye. Similarly, wind deployment, chute separation, weapon functioning,
affects lighter-weight stores more than heavier and impact.
stores; cluster weapons, for example, are particu-
larly sensitive to wind because of their submuni- Most cinetheodolites consist of four mechanically
tions. Therefore, lighter-weight stores may require independent sections. The optical section contains
lower wind limits. Thus, a thorough understanding a tracking telescope, digital measuring system for
of the weapons being tested is required to make determining azimuth and elevation angles, a
effective decisions regarding wind tolerances. As camera (usually 35mm), azimuth and elevation
can be seen, wind must always be considered as a electronics, and sighting telescopes for azimuth and
goho-go mission criteria. Finally, a mission elevation measurements. The tracking drive con-
obviously cannot be flown in weather that does not trol section contains all the equipment for driving
allow ground camera coverage. Therefore, the and controlling the cinetheodolites in azimuth and
planned trajectory and flight path of the aircraft elevation as well as the camera control system.
will dictate the allowable cloud cover and amount The support section consists of a rotatable column
of precipitation. with operator seats and a leveling device on which
the cinetheodolites are mounted. The power and
8.0 WEAPON SYSTEM TEST PROGRAM distribution unit contains a power transformer and
DATA REQUIREMENTS audio equipment for communicating with the
master control station. Some cinetheodolite cam-
8.1 Cinetheodolite Cameras eras require two people to operate (one for azimuth
tracking and one for elevation tracking) while
TSPI must be collected to help determine the store others require only one person who does both the
freestream drag and, when necessary, separation azimuth and elevation tracking. At the other end to
effects. These data can be obtained through the use the spectrum, Eglin has cinetheodolites which can
of cinetheodolites equipped with low-, medium-, be operated remotely during drops of live weapons.
and high-speed film cameras (16mm, 3 5 m ,
7 0 m , and 140mm) which generally operate at Cinetheodolites are generally installed on isolated
frame rates from less than 10 to 40,000 frames per pedestals in concrete towers covered by astrodomes
second. Cameras must be capable of recording to protect the instruments and facilitate main-
Inter-Range Instrumentation Group (IRIG) time tenance during inclement weather. A typical cine-
code on film for subsequent analysis. IRIG time theodolite installation is shown in Figure 20. An
uses very high frequency (VHF), radio frequency overall view of the cinetheodolite Struchire is
(RF) transmissions in the 140-MHz range and is shown in Figure 21. The exact position o f each
usable anywhere within the receiving range of the site is determined by a first-order geodetic survey.
transmitter. Even though most major test sites are The cameras are located and oriented in a topocen-
equipped with self-contained time code generators, tric rectangular coordinate system. Precise camera
IRIG time is still widely used to support airborne orientation is accomplished and checked by on-site
and land range missions. Eglin has five land test leveling procedures and calculations utilizing fixed
ranges and the Gulf of Mexico water ranges. An boresight targets. Multiple station solutions for
aerial view of a typical land range is shown in individual space position points are obtained. All
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Figure 20. Cinetheodolite Inside Astrodome
 I
w
Figure 21. Cinetheodolite Structure UI
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of Eglin's cinetheodolites are digitized models Using several different types of equipment at
which, when combined with compatible Contraves Eglin, TSPI is obtained from film and automatical-
semi-automatic film readers, reduce data reduction ly transferred to a digitally-formatted computer
time. tape through a PDP 11/34 microcomputer system.
Figures 23(A) and 23@) show typical frames from
At least three cameras should be used to avoid film that are reduced to obtain TSPI. It inay be
problems in geometry and to insure an accurate noted that without an event time, it is very difficult
solution. A combination of six cinetheodolites has to discern first store movement due to the small
been shown to determine target position to kl.5 image of the store. Two Type 29 Telereader
feet, velocity to 1.5 feet per second, and accelera- Systems (Figure 24) are used for reading all types
tion to 2.5 feet per second squared in tests of spe- of film with a sensitivity of 0.0003 to 0.00006 inch
cific aircraft. The majority of Eglin's ballistic tests per count (depending on the magnification). One
use a minimum of four cameras. This arrangement of these readers is also equipped with an angle-
allows for triangulation (see Figure 22), even in the reading device which permits angles ranging from
event that one camera malfunctions or loses sight 0 to 360 degrees to be measured with an accuracy
of the weapon during the tracking phase. As a rule of 0.1 degree.
of thumb, accuracies of at least 5 feet can be ex-
pected when using three to six cameras. Clearly, Two Contraves semi-automatic film readers
with good weather, complete camera coverage, and (Figure 25) are utilized to read film from the digi-
accurate film reading, cinetheodolites provide a tal Contraves cinetheodolites. Since the cinetheo-
very accurate means of tracking an object. dolite camera operators cannot track an object in

CINE-T CAMERA \/
4-

POstllMl DATA IS TAKhl FROM M E MEAN OF l H E

CINE-T CAMERA TRIANGULATION AREA.

Figure 22. TSPI Raw Data Acquisition

Figure 23(A). Cinetheodolite Photo Coverage of MK 82 Release

Figure 23(B). Cinetheodolite Photo Coverage of Alpha Jet

Figure 24. Type 29 Telereader System
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such a manner that the center of the optical axis of provide photographs of an item along a predeter-
the camera lies directly on the nose of the object, it mined flight path.
is necessary to determine the displacement between
the optical axis and the nose or any other specified 8.2 Ground Impact Scoring
reference point on the object being tracked. This
displacement is called the tracking error. Approx- Ground impacts of large weapons, such as MK 84
imately 100 frames per second can be read with a bombs, are usually scored using the near edge of
resolution of 0.0025 degree in azimuth and eleva- the weapon crater in polar coordinates oriented to
tion and 0.2" on the tracking correction. the target and to the flightline downrange of the
target. Figure 26 illustrates a sample impact plot.
At Eglin, cinetheodolite data are smoothed by For functioning weapons released on grids, the
using a least-squares curve fit. The trajectory of origin of the coordinate system is typically the
the aircraft or weapon helps determine the degree target. Submunitions are separated by type or
of the polynomial and the number of points that dispenser to provide pattern data. other data
need to be used to smooth the cinetheodolite data. collected from the ground impact surveys include
the number of submunitions located and the
A maximum of 39 points and up to a third-degree number of dud items. Scoring of initial impact
polynomial can be used. Typically, a 31-point locations is not always possible due to the fact that
quadratic equation is used to fit most standard the weapons or submunitions may not possess
weapon trajectories. When a weapon has a rocket sufticient velocity to dent the grid surface,
motor firing or any other events that make it diffi-
cult to track, a cubic equation is used to obtain the 8.3 Aircraft Instrumentation
smoothed data. The smoothed cinetheodolite data
is reduced to generate TSPI. Smoothed data is As a result of the increased interest in separation
usually reduced with the line of flight being the effects and system accuracy testing, a debate is
aircraft track at release and the origin of the coor- ongoing within the technical community regarding
dinate system being the target. The smoothed TSPI the need to enhance aircraft instrumentation. At
is normally printed at 0.2-second intervals and the present time, several types of instrumentation
contains parameters such as positions, velocities, are used to gather data for use by analysts.
accelerations, Mach numbers, dynamic pressures,
and flight path angles correlated with time. A Eavesdropping on the MUX bus allows one to
sample pass of TSPI is presented in Table IV. know what the aircraft is "thinking" during a
weapon drop. This equipment is expensive, usual-
During ballistic tests, the aircraft is tracked from a ly requires extensive down-time for modification,
minimum of 3 seconds prior to release and for as and requires specialized maintenance. Therefore,
long after release as the aircraft appears on the film the number of aircraft with full instrumentation is
of the cinetheodolites tracking the weapon. The small.
weapon is usually tracked from release to cluster
opening, fuze function, or impact. To record the For an accurate analysis of TSPI, it is critical that
time of weapon release as well as other event the time for store release he precisely determined.
times, a medium-speed tracking camera, which Instrumented weapon racks offer an accurate
operates at a nominal 96 frames per second with source of actual time of weapon release, either by
IRIG time and 35" film, is also used at Eglin. detecting end-of-stroke time of the ejector foot or
Black and white film is typically used, except in recording cartridge fire. Both can be used to
those instances where color contrast is an important determine time of release or, at least, to verify the
factor in determining the occurrence of events (for release time provided by TSPI. Radar Beacon
example, functioning fins). System (RBS) tone is another way of recording
actual release time, but care must be exercised or
Impact times, velocities, and angles for weapons inherent system time delays may bias the analysis.
and submunitions too small to track with cinetheo- Onboard cameras provide yet another way of
dolite or medium-speed tracking cameras are determining actual release time by noting first store
determined by fixed Milliken or similar cameras movement if the cameras are time-coded.
along a grid impact area. Bowen ribbon-frame
cameras, which operate at rates of 60, 90, 180, and One type of instrumentation that is perhaps the
360 frames per second, may be synchronized to most valuabIe to the analyst is the HUD recording.
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Table IV. Sample TSPI Data s

ALTITUDE PRESS TEMP WD WV NE NO DEW PT V PR RH

Weather DEG C KTS GMz! DEG C
Data
FEET METERS
67
20 I
20
61
MB
1003.0
998.4
21.1
20.3
DEG
320
310
$? KYZ
669
667
118 0
1182.7
293
0
270
0
0.9
0.0
F85
0.0
p%
0
0 0.0 0.0 0
250
300
76
91
996.7 20.0
19.7
310
310
21
21
667
667
1181.9
1181.0 8 0 0.0 0.0
8
0
349
394 '06
120
935.0
991.8
593'3
19.4
19 2
310
3tO 5; E2 !:%.a $
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0

z vx
Page 1:
PositionNelocity 1 * 21
TIHE
H M S
6 11.958
1-FREZ
SEC
-4.950
X
FEET
-12480,203
Y
CEET
8293.628
FEET
-100.298
F/S
791.517
FY:
-390.902
F 7:
12.595
HT
FEET
8440.288
I 21 6 12.156 -4.752 -12323.273 8216.054 -97.838 793.644 -392.671 12.251 8362 622
Data 1 * 21 6 12.354 -4.554 -12165.820 8138,130 -95.447 795.771 -394.439 11.907 8284.606
I * 21 6 12.552 -4.356 -12008.147 8059.856 -93. (23 797.898 -396.208 11.562 8206.241
1 * 21 6 12.750 -4.158 -11849.953 798 I . 232 -90 868 800.025 -397.976 11.218 8127.526
! 21 6 12.948 -3.960 -?1691.331 7302.287 -88.684 602. i52 1"9.785
.^D 10.838 8048.:93

v'! HT A
Page 2:
T- FREZ
SEC FY: FY2 :YE FYS FY: FY: FEET G S
Air Velocity
Wind Data
:
2
.I

.
O.Oo0
0.198
0.396
1065.054
848.218
263.371
1053.928
838.388
250.522
752 460
596.213
181.561
-.46. 329
.. 43.2 16
-17.624
- 14.246
16.844
15.278
17.223
17.303
36.839
35.707
36.662
36.624
1019.353
888.239
802.OOG
798.644
34.088
34.087
97.101
97.401
2 * 0.419 192.382 178.565 130.850 2.685
2 . 0.517 184.016 169.988 124.366 -14.011 17.484 36.540 787.094
2 . 0.594 177.449 163.361 119.414 -13.883 (7.484 36.540 178.407 2.G85

1-FREZ AN G An M KO CD na GR DA A I R nT
Page 3: SEC G S OEG DEG FEET
3 ** O.Oo0 0.461 - m ; 7 0.840 0.472 1.202 -26.098 -27.014 6434.290
Acceleration, Mach, 3 . 0.198 0,474 -45.583 0.835 0 475 I .209 -26.601 -27.524 6351.374
3 0.396 0.380 -42.675 0.830 0.448 I . 142 -27.095 -28.010 6267.500
h a g , &Dive Data 3 0.594 0.021 -26.886 0.826 0,284 0,724 -27.494 -28.404 6182.82 1
3 0.792 0.209 -34.349 0.825 Q.363 0.925 -27.874 -28.771 6097.280
3 0.990 0.286 -33.961 0.822 0.360 0.917 -28.141 -29.022 601 1.362

1-FREZ HV HVA HT SR
Page 4: SEC F/$ZS DEG DFG LB~FIZ FEET FEET
4 *f c . m 750. 68 63.865 61.048 1260.699 1019.353 1172.978
Acceleration, 4 0.198 -797.289 750.768 10.003 63.868 60.426 799.460
71.493
888.239
802.006
984.287
859.705
Horizontal Flight 4 . 0.396 -2201,353 22 19.486 145.255 70.042 59.027
4 . 0.419 -2201.353 2219.486 105.259 13.161 58.35~ 36.323 796.644 854.564
Path, & Dynamic 4 . 0.517 -64.3 13 57.486 1.539 73.596 58.144
57.535
32.922
30.405
787.094
778.407
836.588
823.054
4 . 0.594 -64.3 I 3 57.486 1.535 13.165
f i e s u r e Gala

VARIABLE MEASUREMENT UNITS VARIABLE MEASUREMENT UNITS VARIABLE MEASUREMENT UNITS

A Acceleration G M Mach Number VT Total Velocity F/S
AD Acceleration Due to Drag F/S/S NE Not Used VWX X Velocity to Air Mass XF/S
ALTITUDE Altitude Feet or Meters NO Not Used VWZ Z Vclacity to Air Mass %/S
AN G Normal Acccleration GS PRESS Atmospheric Pressure Millibars vx x Velociiy F/S
AX X Acceleration F/S/S Q Dynamic Pressure Lb/FtZ VY Y Velocity F/S
AY Y Acceleration F/S/S RH Not Used vz Z Velocity F/S
AZ
~ ~~ Z Acceleration
~~~ ~~ FISIS
~ ~~ RHO Air Density gmsicubic meter WD Wind Direction Degrees
CD Drag Coefficient SR Slant Range Feet wv Wind Velocity Knots
DA AIR Dive Angle Degrees TEMP Tsmperature Deggiccs Celsim wx Wind Velocity-X Component F/S
DA GR Dive Anglc Degrees TIME Time of Day Hrs/Mins/Secs wz Wind Velocity-2 Component F/S
DEWFT NatUsed T-FREZ Time from Freeze Seconds X X Coordinate Feet
HT Height Above Sea Level Feet V PR Not Used Y Y Coordinate Feef
HVA Heading from North Depees VA Total Velocity in Air Mass F/S
KD Drag Coefficient (Ballistics) vs Speed of Sound Knots
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Unlike other types of instrumentation, HUD re- the design of the recording system is known, they
cordings are available as standard equipment on also provide a fairly accurate idea of weapon-re-
most aircraft. They can, in mo'st cases, provide the lease parameters. The analyst gets a pilot's-eye
analyst with data on airspeed, altitude, dive angle, view of the weapon delivery system and an idea of
g's, Mach number, and of primary importance in its abilities and limitations.
accuracy testing, the aim point.
Delays are evident in HUD recordings, since what
As the need for instrumentation increases, some is viewed on the video tape at a particular instant in
innovations are being utilized by the flight test time is not necessarily what happened at that time.
community. For example, an interesting one is the The importance of these delays cannot be over-
use of small video cameras to record aircraft aft emphasized. Analysts reviewing the tape of a
Multi-Purpose Displays (MPD's). At Eglin, this is mission have often accused pilots of making aiming
being done in F-15E aircraft. Another example is errors, only to learn later that video recording
the development of an OFP that will display data delays had caused the appearance of pilot error.
relating to weapon release on the MPD's for re-
cording by these video cameras. This display These delays are caused by several different fac-
amounts to a relatively inexpensive MUX record- tors, but timing is a major one. For example, in
ing. These same small cameras are also being used most aircraft, video recordings are made at about
to record the pilot's view through the NUD, which 30 frames per second. HUD symbology is dis-
will provide not only a color through-the-HUD played at about 60 frames per second, but the
image (HUD video today is black and white only) software that updates the symbology is usually at
but also a delay-free image for accuracy analysis as 25 frames per second. Further, in the case of the
well. F-l5E, recordings are only made of every other
symbology update cycle, which is 12.5 times per
8.4 HUD Recordings second. Thus, there is potential for large time lags
in the recorded data on a HUD video recording.
Pilots have been using cameras to record their These time lags account for the innovative devel-
activities ever since the invention of the airplane. opment of the camera modification to F-15E air-
Use of cameras to record engagements with other craft that was mentioned previously in this volume.
aircraft (kills) is a prime example. In fact, much of
our present-day knowledge on the history of air As is true with any data source, once the limita-
warfare has come from cameras during actual tions of that source are known, it is then possible to
battles in the sky. Air-to-air combat strategies make the most use of the data provided by the
were, and are, constantly being analyzed, scrutin- source. Once the limits and delays in a HUD video
ized, and refined using gun camera footage and recording system are known, the analyst can put
HUD video recordings. The gun cameras of the the recording to best use.
past have evolved into the HUD video recordings
made every day by pilots. Present video technolo- 8.4.1 Use of HlJD Video for Computerized
gy allows very small cameras to record a flight and Deliveries
permits the recording to be reviewed as soon as the
plane is back on the ground without having to wait The HUD video becomes most valuable in support
for film to be developed. These procedures avoid of accuracy analysis testing. It provides the analyst
the risk of losing the footage altogether due to with a real-time look at whether the pilot was able
improper handling. to attain the desired release parameters, allows the
pilot to make real-time vocal notations as
It is doubtful that aircraft manufacturers ever eventshomalies occur, and, most importantly,
intended for HUD recordings to be used in the gives a good picure of pipper placement at the
exacting manner that analysts presently are attempt- time of target designation. HUD video is not as
ing to use them. They were, first and foremost, vital to a separation-effects test as it is to an accu-
designed to be used as recording devices for air-to- racy test, but it does afford the analyst with a quick
air combat, as training tools for pilots and weapon look as to whether the pilot was on parameters.
system operators, and perhaps for settling aircrew For this reason, it is recommended that HUD video
arguments as to "who shot down whom first." be a required part of every flight test mission.
HUD recordings provide the analyst with an inside
look at the intricacies of weapon delivery, and if
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8.4.2 Use of HUD Video for Non-Computer- the proper ejection velocities and angles when
ized Deliveries modeling the drop. The release sequence must also
be known in order to correlate TSPI for individual
A non-computerized delivery is one in which the stores on a pass-by-pass basis. Finally, aircraft
pilot sets the aiming reticle at a pre-selected mil data must include the type and model and the latest
depression that will, if the pilot is exactly on the software updates, if any, incorporated in the air-
predetermined delivery conditions, allow a weapon craft's OFP.
to be delivered on target. In this case, the HUD
video allows the analyst to determine whether the 8.7 Store Data
pilot was on parameters, and if off parameters, by
bow much. Again, it allows the analyst to relate The last pieces of data required to perform a ballis-
aim point to the target. tics analysis pertains to the weapons themselves.
In order to accurately model a weapon trajectory,
8.5 Programmable Data Acquisition Sys- the following information must be available to the
t e m (PDAS) Recordings analyst: type of weapon and fuze, whether it is
live or inert, measured mass properties (weight,
A PDAS is used at Eglin to provide MUX bus center-of-gravity, and moments-of-inertia), and
recordings to the analyst. It is installed on F-15E nominal functioning characteristics such as fin
and F-16 aircraft and is a programmable device opening, dispenser opening, and fuze arming timer.
that can eavesdrop on the bus and can record and In order to use these data in subsequent analyses, it
time tag, using IRIG-B time, pre-selected data is necessary to identify where each store is loaded
words onto an analog tape. As these words appear on the aircraft.
on the bus, they are placed into an array of buffers
for storage. When the buffer array is full, all data 8.8 Meteorological Data
is time-tagged and written to tape.
In an earlier section of the volume, meteorological
As with the HUD recordings, the analyst must data were discussed as essential for ballistic analy-
realize that a delay exists between the time the ses in that both the way a test is conducted and the
word appears on the bus and the time it is record- performance of the test item can be affected by
ed. Instances of delays of up to 200 msec in PDAS atmospheric conditions. For this reason, meteoro-
data have been noted. PDAS should be used in logical test criteria have been established for an
conjunction with another data source so that timing increasing number of systems which are at-
differences can be resolved. Efforts are being mosphere-sensitive. Atmospheric conditions must
made to correct time lags. One innovative solution satisfy these criteria before the test commences and
was implemented on a system similar to PDAS at must be measured during the testing phase. Be-
Edwards AFB, California. Data are simply stored cause of the importance of meteorological data, the
in a buffer cell with its time tag in the next cell. discussion that follows provider the reader with
This arrangement requires the buffer to be record- more information on this subject.
ed twice as often since the buffer must now hold
data and time tags for every word, but accurate Instrumentation systems and components used for
time tags are now provided with the data. measuring, computing, displaying, and storing
meteorological data fall into two broad categories:
An effort to use video tape to record the equivalent fixed measuring systems and mobile measuring
of MUX data in aircraft is underway at Nellis systems. Fixed systems measure the distribution of
AFB, Nevada. The premise is a good one and will meteorological parameters correlated to height by
provide useful data to analysts, but it will have the balloon sounders or by sensors on towers. Weath-
same limitations as HUD video (that is, data will er observers can also make meteorological meas-
only be recorded at 30 frames per second). urements by operating portable meteorological
equipment from various sites throughout the test
8.6 Aircraft Data complex.

The aircraft loadout must identify what is carried Rawinsondes (for example, the AN/GMDJ Rawin
on each station of the aircraft as well as the specific Sets) are used to make atmospheric soundings from
station and rack combination associated with each the earth's surface to altitudes above 30 kilometers.
pass. This information enables the analyst to use This equipment and associated ground and flight
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equipment measure or derive data for pressure, Single-theodolite Pibal wind measurements made at
temperature, relative humidity, wind direction and a requested location assume that the balloon has a
velocity, height, and density. Typically, routine known ascent rate. The estimated error of such
soundings are made twice daily, and special sound- measurements is usually 3 meters per second plus
ings can be performed as required to support the six percent of the wind vector. When the balloon
testing environment. passes through a temperature inversion or through
other turbulent conditions, single-theodolite read-
At Eglin, temperature, which can be recorded in ings are unreliable.
degrees Centigrade, Fahrenheit, or Rankin, is
measured with An ML-7 general-purpose, non- For the greater precision required for most ballistic
registering, mercury-in-glass thermometer. Dew tests, pibals are typically tracked by a minimum of
point and relative humidity are measured with an three cinetheodolites. Assuming five samples per
ML-24 psychrometer. Pressure is measured by second and smoothing to a 101-point linear equa-
three types of instruments: the ML-102, a portable tion, winds derived from this type of tracking have
aneroid barometer that is individually calibrated for an estimated vector error of 0.5 meter per second
scale and temperature errors; an ML-512, which is and can be determined for vertical intervals as
a Fortin-type mercurial barometer with adjustable small as 75 meters.
cistern; and an ML-563, which is a precision
barograph that provides a continuous record for a 8.9 Summary of Data Requfuements for
4day period. Density is recorded as grams per Ballistic Tests
cubic meter, pounds per cubic foot, or slugs per
cubic foot. Analysls at Eglin have prepared an Operating In-
struction (01) that defines ballistics requirements.
Wind direction and velocity data are obtained by Inasmuch as this 01 is an unpublishedlinternal
tracking a Pilot Balloon (pibal) at the test site with document, it is provided as Appendix B in order to
cinetheodolite cameras. Wind measurements can provide the reader with quick and ready access to
be made in clear weather or in any portion of the test requirements, data recordingkollection re-
atmosphere below cloud cover. Wind velocity is quirements, meteorological requirements, and data
typically measured either in knots or feet per reduction requirements.
second. The wind direction and velocity pibal data
are usually recorded at altitudes from the earth's 9.0 DATA ANALYSIS
surface to 3000 feet in 500-foot increments and
from 3000 feet above the eartb's surface to 1000 9.1 Freestream Analysis MeUhodology
feet above release altitude in 1000-foot increments.
Pibal recordings typically are taken in the vicinity A freestream ballistic analysis consists of the
of the release area within 30 minutes of the muni- development of the weapon's freestream flight
tion release time. The pibal can be tracked either characteristics (drag coefficient, event times, and
by theodolites or, if released from suitable loca- the like) for use in a mathematical model to predict
tions, by range cinetheodolites operating at 10 the flight path of the weapon from release to
frames per second recording data with I N G time in impact. The methodology and necessary data to
bursts of approximately 5 seconds each at one-half predict the impact pattern for functioning weapons
minute intervals. In the final product, the cine- are also developed during this analysis.
theodolite pibal data is integrated into the reduced
ballistics data printouts. To predict the freestream performance of a wea-
pon, analysts at Eglin compute theoretical trajecto-
At Eglin, the ML-474 theodolite is used. This ries using the computer program called Unguided
portable measuring device can be used singly or in Weapon Ballistic Analysis Program. This program
pairs to make wind measurements from concrete has been used and refined for several years, but
pads with a known orientation. Measurements are unfortunately, the program is documented for
made from the earth's surface through 10 kilome- internal use only. The program is adaptable to any
ters by tracking a pibal. The theodolite used for type of computer having the required memory and
this purpose is a right-angle telescope surveying system routines. The program computes point
instrument that records azimuth and elevation mass threedegree-of-freedom (3DOF) trajectories
angles of the rising balloon at fixed time intervals. using a modified Euler integration method with the
A typical ascent to 3 kilometers takes 10 minutes. following information:
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Positions and velocities of the weapon at The positions and velocities of the computed trajec-
release (time zero) as determined from the tories are compared with the positions and veloci-
reduced cinetheodolite TSPI for the aircraft ties of the observed trajectories from TSPI for each
Oncidentally, since cinetheodolite film posi- weapon. This comparison is usually performed at
tion measurements at Eglin are made using 1.0-second intervals along the trajectory until
the nose of the aircraft, a position correction impact or termination. If the delta range (which is
factor is applied to obtain the true position of the difference between the actual and computed
the weapon on the aircraft.) ranges) and time-of-flight deviations for the indi-
Ejection velocity (that is, the velocity at vidual trajectories are large and biased in one direc-
which the weapon is ejected from the aircraft tion (see Figure 27), it must be determined whether
susoension rack) the deviations are due to drag or separation effects.
3. Measured weapon weight and diameter In order to make the distinction between drag and
4. Drag coefficient as a function of Mach separation effects, additional trajectories are
number, as furnished by the weapon contrac- computed using the measured positions and veloci-
tor or as estimated based on a similar ties of the weapon at some time T(1). Time T(l) is
weapon usually 3 seconds after release but should be far
5. Meteorological data (such as air temperature, enough along the measured weapon trajectory for
density, and wind direction and velocity) the weapon to stabilize to steady-state flight. If the
6. Event times or altitudes that affect the comparison of these trajectories with the measured
weapon's drag trajectories produces large and biased deviations
7. Measured range, cross range, and time of starting at T(1), the drag used to compute these
flight at weapon functioning and/or impact trajectories must be adjusted or derived. If the
8. The particle equations of motion (The parti- comparison of these trajectories produces small
cle equations of motion assume that the only deviations with an equal number of positive and
forces acting on the weapon are the drag negative values, then the drag that was used is
force, which acts in a direction opposite to considered to have been verified and is acceptable
that of the air velocity vector of the weapon, (see Figure 28).
and gravity.)
Analysts at Eglin use two methods for adjusting or
The drag force (F) is expressed as follows: deriving store drag. The tried-and-true method is
by manually adjusting the drag coefficient. This
F = MA = R(KD)(J12)(V2) adjustment is accomplished by comparing the
horizontal and vertical velocity components, usual-
where ly at 1.0-second intervals, of each computed trajec-
F = drag force (lb-ft/sec2) tory with those of the TSPI. This method can be
M = mass of bomb (lb) used either with or without TSPI. If TSPI is not
A = acceleration of bomb due to drag available, the comparison is made at impact using
(ft/sec2) only bomb range and total time-of-fall (collected
R = air density (lb/ft3) for ground instrumentation). When making the
KD= drag coefficient (dimensionless) comparison, if the velocity differences are larger
D = weapon diameter (ft) than 3 or 4 feet per second, the drag coefficient
V = air velocity of weapon (ft/sec) should be changed. In order to change the drag,
the time or Mach number where the velocity
CD, used by many aerodynamicists, is related to comparisons begin to deviate from each other must
KD by the formula: be determined. Starting at this time or Mach
number on the drag curve, the drag must be in-
KD= (PI/B)(CD) creased or decreased so that the computed veloci-
ties will better match those of the TSPI. A drag
and drag force F may he expressed as: change in the portion of the trajectory where the
horizontal velocity is large and the vertical velocity
F = 1/2@)(CD)(S)(v2) is small will affect down-range travel more than
time of flight. A drag change in the portion of the
where trajectory where the vertical velocity is large and
S = ((PI)P2))/4 = cross-sectional area. the horizontal velocity is smaIl will affect the time
of flight more than down-range travel. Additional
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DELTA RANGE = MEASURED - COMPUTED

MEASURED TRAJECTORY

COMPUTED TRAJECTORY

,
RANGE

Figure 27. Delta Range

RELEASE

Figure 28. Validation of Freestream Drag

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trajectories may be computed using the adjusted delivery conditions. The CEP is normally reported
drag and the computed trajectories, and the TSPI in milliradians in the normal plane.
can then be recompared. If these ttajectory com-
parisons are not favorable, another drag change 9.2 Submunition Pattern Analysis
should be made in the same manner as before, and
more trajectories should be computed for compari- The type of weapon being tested will define the
son. This process should be repeated until the type of pattern analysis that must be performed as
analyst determines that the drag is acceptable for well as the type of data to be collected for the
the weapon. In summary, this method is adequate, analysis. An impact pattern is defined as the
but it is labor- and experience-intensive. geometric shape formed by the submunitions at
impact. A pattern analysis must be accomplished
Another newer method involves the use of a drag to derive the methodology to define the pattern size
extraction program called Drag Coefficient Extrac- and shape as well as to define the centroid of the
tion Methodology (KDEM). This program com- pattern. It should be accomplished during the
putes a drag value for each time interval from developmental phase of the weapon system testing
TSPI. It then sorts time intervals by Mach number in parallel with deriving the freestream drag.
and computes a weighted average drag for each
Mach number. This drag is then the best available The pattern is a function of the weapon conditions
for the weapon being tested. The program was (altitude, velocity, and angle) at functioning and
developed and validated at Eglin after years of the type of method used to disperse the submuni-
research and testing. In the opinion of Eglin ana- tions. The submunitions may be dispersed by such
lysts, the program represents state-of-the-art drag- means as ram air, tangential velocity, submunition
prediction methodology. The program is fully design, or a combination of submunition design
documented in Reference 16, and a summary of it with either ram air or tangential velocity. The ram
forms part of Appendix C. Because the program is air method assumes that, as the weapon functions
very user-friendly, it is not labor-intensive. Also, and the submunitions are exposed to ram air, they
since the program is automated, it does not require slightly separate from each other and follow their
analysts with extensive experience. individual trajectories. This trajectory pattern
results in submunitions departing from the weapon
After adjusting or deriving the drag by using either opening with a characteristic angular displacement
(Jf these methods, trajectories starting at time T(0) about the weapon velocity vector. This displace-
with the new drag are computed. If the compari- ment does not provide for natural or designed
son of these trajectories with the measured trajecto- dispersion of the submunitions induced during their
ries produces small deviations, the freestream drag free flight. The tangential velocity method of
analysis is complete, and it will not be necessary to dispersion assumes that, at weapon functioning,
do a separation-effects analysis. If the comparison submunitions are ejected perpendicular to the
of these trajectories with the measured trajectories weapon velocity vector. The tangential velocity
produces large deviations, a separation-effects may be due to the weapon spinning or to some
analysis must be accomplished. The methods for internal mechanism that ejects the submunitions
performing a separation-effects analysis will be from the weapon.
discussed in a later section of this volume.
In order to perform a pattern analysis, the analyst
During the freestream drag analysis, weapon events must have a tabulation of the impact coordinates
such as drag chute deployment and fin opening for each submunition within the pattern as well as a
must be modeled. An event may be modeled as a plot of the tabulated data. This plot gives the
constant (straight line, polynomial, or some other analyst a quick look at the shape and size of the
equation). A review of test data provides the pattern and will show those submunitions that are
analyst with a guide as to the methodology to use "outliers". (Outliers are those submunitions that
to model events. may be several hundred feet from the main part of
the pattern and will have little or no effect on target
After the freestream ballistic analysis is complete, damage.) The plot also gives the analyst a quick
weapon ballistic dispersion should be computed. look at defining the pattern centroid for use in
This is usually performed in the form of CEP. determining the drag from function to impact.
CEP is the radius of a circle which contains 50 Impact time, velocity, and angle data are also
percent of the weapons dropped at a given set of helpful to the analyst when deriving the drag. The
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tabulated data should include statistical information (1)Determining whether there is a need for
such as the sum of the range and cross-range separation-effects compensation for a given
impact coordinates, the MPI, and the number of weapon loadout, and if compensation is re-
submunitions considered in the MPI. The MPI quired, the magnitude of the compensation
may differ from the geometric center of impact (2) Determining and implementing a methodolo-
(GCI) or pattern centroid due to the density of the gy for separation-effects compensation.
submunitions within the pattern. If applicable, the
data should also include the number of live and dud The first part of a separation-effects analysis,
submunitions within the pattern to determine the determining the need, is straightforward. Using
submunition reliability. The analyst may request data provided from flight testing (for example,
other data such as a circle, ellipse, or some other TSPI, release sequences, and event times), each
geometric shape that contains 80 and/or 90 percent individual weapon is modeled from at least two sets
of the submunitions. Figure 26 shows a typical of initial conditions using earlier described free-
impact plot. stream-modeling methods. The first set of initial
conditions is taken at the time of weapon release
After reviewing the observed pattern data and the from the aircraft. The results of this modeling are
method of submunition dispersion, the analyst will compared with the actual termination conditions of
have a working knowledge of the pattern shape. the dropped weapon. If separation effects exist and
The pattern size will be determined by computing the freestream model of the weapon is a good one,
theoretical trajectories from function to impact the difference between the model and actual data
using the appropriate dispersion method and the will be significant. On the other hand, if few or no
submunition drag. To define the pattern, four separation effects are present, the differences will
trajectories should be computed. These trajectories be small. These differences or deltas are a good
should simulate the short, long, right, and left indication of the amount of compensation required.
submunitions that define the pattern boundaries and This first part of a separation-effects analysis is
should then be compared with the observed points. important because it provides insight into the
The pattern analysis is complete if the trajectory magnitude of errors caused by separation effects.
comparisons are favorable. If the comparisons are This insight helps in making decisions as to the
not favorable, adjustments to the dispersion method cost-effectiveness of implementation of compensa-
values, such as velocity and angle, must be made tions. In many instances, improving a trajectory
and additional trajectories computed. These trajec- by a small amount does not measurably increase
tories are compared with the measured trajectories, weapon effectiveness and, therefore, is not cost-
and the process is repeated until the comparison of effective.
the trajectories is favorable. At this point, the
analysis is complete. The second set of initial conditions is taken from
the actual trajectory some time after release. The
The analyst may want to take the pattern analysis ideal time is when all perturbations to the weapon
one step further and determine the coefficients for during separation have stabilized. As previously
an equation by using a regression program. The mentioned, this condition normally occurs about 3
equation may be as follows: seconds after weapon separation. These initial
conditions are used to model the weapon's trajec-
Pattern Size = A + B (FA) + C (FV) + D (FH) tory again and art: compared with the actual trajec-
tory data of the weapon. Ideally, the difference
where A, B, C, and D are the coefficients from the between the model and the actual trajectory should,
stepwise regression program and FA, FV, and FH in this case, be zero. Again, if the freestream-
are the weapon functioning angle, velocity, and modeling ability is good and no anomalies exist
altitude, respectively. The equation may be used to with the weapon, the difference will be very small.
compute the diameter of a circle, the major and This second comparison of the weapon trajectory is
minor axes of an ellipse, or the length and width of valuable to the analyst because it tests the free-
a rectangle. stream model and allows bombs with anomalies to
be identified and studied individually and possibly
9.3 Separation-Effects Analysis be removed from the sample set.

A separation-effects analysis can be broken up into The second part of the separation-effects analysis is
two distinct parts: more complex than the first. Before any compen-
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sation for separation effects can be made, the deci- It may be candidly noted that analyses performed
sion must be made as to what methodology will be using SEEM have not resulted in as accurate a
used onboard the aircraft. Without getting into the comparison as expected between 6DOF wind-
specifics of the many different methodologies, the tunnebderived data and TSPI. For example, drag
methods in use today can all be labeled as "fudge force coefficients from TSPI were up to three times
factors". These fudge factors do not model the larger than those obtained from wind-tunnel-de-
actual trajectory but make changes to the inputs of rived data. However, this difference may be ex-
OFP trajectory calculations in order to, in effect, plained in part by the wind tunnel test apparatus,
cheat the system into calculating the correct which placed more emphasis on measuring store-
weapon freestream trajectory. normal forces and moments than drag forces. In
addition, the small scale of the store models neces-
The basic analysis in compensation involves the sitated altering the store's geometry to facilitate
same steps used in determining a need for compen- mounting on support strings. This scale not only
sation, that is, measuring the errors by comparing altered the store's aerodynamic characteristics but
modeled trajectories to actual trajectories. These also altered its base drag. Nevertheless, a well-
deltas are then used to determine the fudge factors founded cause for optimism exists that SEEM is on
needed, which are, in turn, curve fit to produce the right track and will fulfill its expectations if
coefficients for equations contained in the aircraft given enhanced wind-tunnel-derived data (for
OFP. Several different types of equations are example, by using larger store models).
presently used in aircraft OFP's. As previously
stated, the equations contained in the F-16 and the The reader may also be interested in knowing that
F-15E discussion are functions of Mach number the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is
and g. The F-111 equation is a function of Mach being investigated for deriving separation effects.
number, g, and dynamic pressure. If SEEM represents the state-of-the-art, CFD
represents the future. Considerable research has
Considerable effort has been devoted to quantifying been performed by industry and government, and
separation effects by using wind-tunnelderived the results offer significant promise for using CFD
data instead of flight-test data. The thrust of this to derive separation effects. For example, Arnold
effort stems from the belief that an analytical Engineering Development Center (AEDC) is per-
method will enable separation effects to be estab- forming work in this area that is on the cutting
lished with more accuracy than is currently possi- edge of technology. Analysts at AEDC have
ble. But, in an austere budget environment, the performed CFD analyses that have matched TSPI
biggest payoffs are projected to come in the form quite closely for certain flight conditions. It is
of less stores, less missions, and overall less cost hoped that a successive volume on ballistics will
and time needed to validate separation-effects document a validated CFD program that can be
models. readily used by test organizations world-wide.

A program has been developed at Eglin called 9.4 Accuracy Analysis

Separation-Effects Estimation Method (SEEM).
This program uses a modified 3DOF ballistics In reality, the goal of tactical warfare is simple: kill
model to emulate a 6DOF safe separation model. targets. Therefore, the most important question
The 6DOF model uses wind-tunnelderived store asked by aircrews is, "How effective is my air-
force and moment coefficients during separation craft?". Knowledge of the effectiveness of an
trajectories. Ideally, if the 6DOF model adequate- aircraft allows aircrews and mission planners to
ly predicts store separation effects, then OFP algo- make the best use of that aircraft. For example,
rithms could be precisely modeled throughout the why risk sending a large number of aircraft against
desired flight envelope for an endless array of a target when a smaller number could do the job?
loadouts. Parametric analyses could then be per- Conversely, sending too few aircraft will unneces-
formed to identify worse-case flight conditions and sarily risk men and machines while not accomplish-
loadouts and, subsequently, only limited flight ing the goal of the mission. The ability to assess
testing would be necessary to validate predictions. the accuracy of a weapon delivery system is in-
The SEEM program is fully documented in Refer- valuable to operational users and analysts. Knowl-
ence 17, and a summary of the program forms part edge of. the limitations of a less-accurate aircraft
of Appendix C. weapon-delivery system will make that system
more effective than a system with unknown abili-
I 50

ties, even though it may be proven later to have a

higher degree of weapondelivery accuracy.

The only essential data required to perform an

accuracy analysis are the same aircraft release
parameters used for CEP calculations (that is, alti-
tude and slant range) and the location of the im-
pacts of the weapons. Since impacts are measured
and DEP are reported (in feel) as opposed to a
CEP, because the angles used to calculate CEP
decreases to the point where CEP becomes mean-
ingless. REP and DEP are also reported for loft
deliveries for the same reasons.

In accuracy analyses, CEP is reported from two

different references: around the aim point and
to a common reference point on the ground such as around the MPI. In this instance, MPI is the mean
a target, it must also be known where the pilot was of all intact munition impacts and the mean of the
aiming in reference to that point at the time of pattern centroids for functioning weapons (see
release (see Figure 29). The reported impact loca- Figure 30). If a bias in the system exists as a
tions must be corrected for aiming errors. For specified percentage of bombs falling either long or
instance, assume an impact is measured 200 feet short of the target, the CEP around the MPI will be
short of the intended target. If the analyst makes smaller than the CEP around the target. If no bias
the assumption that there was no aiming error, a exists, the CEP around the MPr and target will be
bias in the weapon delivery system would be indi- the same.
cated. But if it were known that the pilot aimed
175 feet short, the aim-point-corrected impact A detailed discussion of the equations for CEP,
would be 25 feet short, probably well within the REP, and DEP can be found in other documents.
acceptable accuracy of the weapon. However, for the convenience of the reader, the
following paragraphs provide a further explanation
The results of an accuracy analysis is reported in of these terms. A CEP value is equal to the radius
I CEP or REP and DEP. REP and DEP are range of a circle with its center at the desired mean point
error probable and deflection error probable, of impact, containing one-half OF the impact points
respectively. REP and DEP form a square which, of independently aimed bombs or one-half of the
as with CEP, contains 50 percent of the bomb MF'I's resulting from independent aiming opera-
impacts. REP and DEP can be reported in mils or tions. CEP is associated with a circular normal
feet but are usually reported in feet in the ground distribution having a standard deviation (sigma). It
plane. For weapons released at low altitudes, REP is a meaningful measure of accuracy if the impact

AIMPOINT

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group pattern is reasonably circular, at which time Many times a probability of bias is indicated by the
CEP = 1.774 sigma. As the group pattern be- grouping of impacts (aim points corrected) either
comes more elliptical, REP and DEP become more long or short of the target. By assuming a binomi-
accurate descriptors of the pattern. A DEP value is al distribution, a bias evaluation can be accom-
equal to one-half the distance between two lines plished. If the median is expected to be a certain
that are drawn parallel to the aircraft track, equidis- point (for example, the target), then for any given
tant from the desired mean point of impact, and sample, it would be expected that one-half of the
contain one-half the impact points or MPI's result- bombs (aim-point-corrected) would impact long of
ing from independent aiming operations. If the the target and one-half would impact short if no
impact pattern is bivariate normal, as is usual, the bias were present. With the probability of long or
delivery error standard deviation in deflection short impacts equally being 50 percent, a binomial
sigma is equal to 1.483 P E P ) . Similarly, DEP = table (Table V) is used to evaluate bias. At Eglin,
0.6745 (sigma). REP is defined the same as DEP analysts use a bias criterion that is a combination of
with the exception that its value is equal to one-half long or short impacts about the target, plus all
the distance between two lines that are drawn worst-possible long or short possibilities that occur
perpendicular to the aircraft track. less than 10 percent of the time. Even though
CEP, REP, and DEP, and if indicated, bias meas-
 Table V. Ballistic Accuracy Without Separation-Effects Compensation

DATE MSN PASS A/C RACK BOMB REL REL REL TRAJ IMP GROUND
DELTA PLANE DELTA
DELTA NORMAL
DELTA PLANE
DELTA
NO POS WT ALT MACH ANG ARC ANG RANGE DEFL TIME RANGE DEFL
MSL NO LENGTH
LBS FT DEG FT DEG FT FT SEC MILS MILS

8 MAY 86 4713 1 F -X 3 0 812. 0.1 12028. 35.61 -90.

9 MAY 86 5008 2 F- X 7 0 813. 30. - 0.14 -4.4 2.5
9 MAY 86 5008 3 0.2 9007. 23.69 - 139. - 17. - 0.24 - 6.2 - 1.9
F- X 4 0 810. 0.1 9435. 24.82 - 189. 22. -0.30 - 8.4
9 MAY 86 5008 4 F- X 6 0 812. 2.3
12 MAY 86 1013 1 0.4 8956. 23.64 - 247. 23. - 0.35 - 11.0 2.5
F- X 3 0 815. 0.0 8039. 25.31 -109. - 50. -0.19 - 5.8
12 MAY 86 1013 2 F- X 7 0 809. - 6.3
12 MAY 86 1013 3 0.0 8030. 24.99 - 116. 9. -0.18 - 6.1 1.2
F- X 4 0 809. 0.0 8320. 26.18 - 84. - 27. - 0.13 - 4.5
12 MAY 86 1013 4 F- X 6 0 815. - 3.3
14 MAY 86 3707 1 0.3 8227. 24.75 - 174. - 20. - 0.28 - 8.8 - 2.5
F- X 3 0 812. -0.1 10778. 2 4 . 9 0 -1080. 56. - 1.10 - 42.2
14 MAY 86 3707 2 F- X 7 0 811. 5.2
15 MAY 86 - 0.1 10111. 23.01 -647. 32. - 0.74 - 25.0 3.2
4014 1 F- X 3 0 817. - 14.9 6131. 30.50 - 53.
15 MAY 86 4014 2 F- X 7 0 814. 0. - 0.07 - 4.4 0.0
15 MAY 86 - 19.1 6604. 35.01 - 92. - 35. - 0.12 - 8.0 - 5.2
4014 3 F- X 4 0 813. - 18.7 7203. 35.02 - 104. -55. - 0.17
15 MAY 86 4014 4 F- X 6 0 817. - 8.3 - 7.7
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22 MAY 86 4042 2 F- X 3 0 814. -69. -61. -0.13 - 3.5 - 6.9
22 MAY 86 - 23.4 6853. 37.47 -7. - 52. - 0.03 -0.6 - 7.6
4042 3 F- X 7 0 813. - 23.4 6690. 37.30 - 51. 6.
22 MAY 86 4042 5 F- X 4 0 814. -0.09 - 4.6 0.8
22 MAY 86 - 20.5 7046. 35.05 - 126. 17. - 0.20 - 10.3 2.4
4042 6 F- X 6 0 813. - 22.1 6998. 36.10 -31, - 1. - 0.08
23 MAY 86 5008 1 F- X 3 0 813. - 2.6 - 0.1
23 MAY 86 - 26.7 6967. 38.42 - 55. 18. - 0.10 - 4.9 2.6
5008 2 F- X 7 0 809. - 22.6 6527. 33.87 - 113. 25. - 0.14
23 MAY 86 5008 4 F- X 6 0 807. - 9.6 3.8
- 26.2 6988. 37.43 - 86. 54. - 0.13 - 7.4 7.7
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9 JUN 87 1610 - 11.1 6435. 26.06 - 177. 3. - 0.23 - 12.1 0.5
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22 JUL 87 6865. 35.87 - 136. - 38. - 0.20 - 11.6 -5.6
5817 7 F- X 6 0 771. - 23.6 6186. 37.07 - 102. - 2. - 0.15
24 AUG 87 47 5 F- X 7 0 771. - 9.9 - 0.3
24 AUG 87 - 19.9 6155. 33.56 96. 5. 0.38 8.6 0.9
47 6 F- X 4 0 798. - 20.6 6471. 34.20 - 88. - 50.
10 SEP 87 1866 I F- X 3 0 789. 0.13 - 7.7 - 7.7
10 SEP 87 - 23.3 6432. 36.94 - 72. -15. - 0.09 - 6.7 - 2.3
1866 4 F- X 7 0 768. -18.0 6032. 33.11 - 129. -10.
18 SEP 87 2447 2 - 0.16 - 11.6 - 1.6
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AVERAGE ( N = 44) 7452.4 - 144.7 - 6.7 -0.18 - 8.3 - 1.1

PE ( F T j 131.7 22.2 5.3 2.9
3: ILL, 134.3
7.2
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53

Table VI1 presents a summary of predicted ballistic

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effective missions, further insight can be gained accuracy with separation-effects modeling using the
into the causes of biases and dispersions by exam- procedures previously described. In this case,
ining other data sources. PDAS data provides a separation effects were modeled into an equation
look at what the aircraft is "thinking" at the time of for input to the aircraft OFP. Using this model,
weapon release. Factors such as airspeed, al- coupled with store freestream trajectory data, the
titudes, system altitude and CADC altitude, dive pilot could expect a bomb to hit 4.2 feet long of the
angles, g loadings, and release times can be exam- target with a CEP of 67.2 feet. The delta range is
ined. If TSPI is available, these PDAS parameters different, and the CEP is larger than the ideal
can be compared with their equivalent TSPI values because the model optimized separation
parameters. TSPI gathered at the time of OFP effects across a range of flight conditions.
testing can also be used in subsequent separation-
effects analysis. Considerable time and money can 9.6 Guided Weapons Analysis
be saved by wisely planning initial OFP testing to
provide data for other analyses as well. The development of guided weapons simulation
theory and analysis is beyond the scope of this
In the beginning of this volume, the potential for volume. However, some of the major considera-
reducing ballistic errors was discussed. This dis- tions should be identified. In the case of guided
cussion was based on the results of a theoretical weapons, instead of working with a 3DOF simula-
sensitivity analysis using a 3DOF mathematical tion model and time-correlated position and veloci-
model. Additional sensitivity analyses have been ty data, 6DOF is utilized to account for roll, pitch,
performed using a state-of-the-art 6DOF mathemat- and yaw over and above the point mass three-
ical model (Reference 18). The results indicate dimensional equations. For example, assume a
that the CEP for CBU-58 and MK 84 LDGP stores short impact results at an actual test condition.
should be less than 6.9 and 2.3, respectively, when Several variables could cause the problem; for
proper attention is given to compensating for example, the theoretical or predicated lift for the
(modeling) such factors as separation effects and weapon could be greater than the actual, or the
ejector free. Appendix D provides a brief sum- drag coefficient could be greater than the wind
mary of these analyses for easy reference. tunnel prediction. In the case of airborne illumina-
tion or designation of the target, the centroid of
9.5 Actual Results of Freestream and reflective energy could be short of the target and
Separation-Effects Analysis the weapon was really guiding to the short-connect
point. All of these are major concerns which must
Table VI presents a summary of actual flight test be evaluated analytically in developing the final
results for the accuracy of one 800-pound-class simulation model for use in operational employ-
bomb in one loadout configuration released from ment for guided weapons. No one set of rules is
an aircraft without any separation-effects compen- available by which a guided weapon simulation
sation. Data in this table have been corrected for analysis should be conducted. Rather, it is a sub-
aim-point errors as necessary. Thus, if the pilot jective evaluation by the experienced analyst or
placed the pipper on the target, he could expect a engineer that must be incorporated into the final
bomb to hit 144.7 feet short of the target with a evaluation of the aerodynamic simulation model.
CEP of 134.3 feet. This is an average value over Some of the general rules and guidelines for the
the range of flight test conditions (that is, range of data requirements for the analysis will be identified
release angles and Mach numbers). in subsequent paragraphs. For evaluating the
guided weapons simulation model, several sources
Table VI presents a summary of predicted ballistic show the methods used in the past. Specifically,
accuracy for the same missions using store free- References 21, 22, and 23 contain detailed pro-
stream drag only. That is, separation effects were cedures that have been applied to guided munition
removed from the data using the procedures pre- simulation and analysis in the past.
viously described. Ideally, if separation effects
could be precisely modeled in the aircraft OFP, the With reference to guided weapons, testing occurs
pilot could expect a bomb to hit 4.6 feet short of at two primary times within the system develop-
the target with a CEP of 25.6 feet. ment phase. The first occurs throughout develop-
mental test and evaluation. In this case, the specif-
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Table VI. Ballistic Accuracy With Freestream Store Data

GROUND PLANE NORMAL PLANE

DATE MSN PASS A/C RACK BOMB REL REL REL TRAd IMP DELTA DELTA DELTA DELTA DELTA
NO PDS WT ALT MACH ANG ARC ANG RANGE DEFL TIME RANGE DEFL
MSL NO LENGTH
LBS FT DEG FT DEG FT FT SEC MILS MILS

8 MAY 86 4713 1 F- X 3780. 0.71 - 5.2 10290. 35.54 13. 21. 0.03
S MAY 86 5008 2 F- X 3832. 0.78
0.8 2.0
- 4.8 7049. 23.55 11. 6. -0.01 0.6 0.9
9 MAY 86 5008 3 F- X 3833. 0.78 - 5.0 7423. 24.69 11. 5. - 0.02
9 MAY 86 5008 4 F- X 3828. 0.71
0.6 0.7
12 MAY 86 1013 1 - 4.8 6947. 23.55 - 25. 16. -0.05 - 1.4 2.2
F- X 3710. 0.71 - 5.2 6373. 25.22 - 46. - 32. - 0.07 - 3.1 - 5.0
12 MAY 86 1013 2 F- X 3717. 0.71 - 5.4 6314. 24.92 - 13.
12 MAY 86 1013 3 F- X 15. -0.01 - 0.9 2.4
3703. 0.70 - 5.3 6636. 26.12 - 2. -1- 52.. -00 .. 0 1 - 0.1 - 0.3
12 MAY 86 1013 4 F- X 3706. 0.72 - 5.3 6388. 24.66 30.
14 MAY 86 3707 1 F- X 3898. 1.9 - 2.3
0.84 -6.5 7745. 25.11 - 8. - 1. - 0.02 - 0.4 - 0.2
14 MAY 86 3707
15
15
MAY
MAY
86
86
4014
4014 2
? F- X
F- X
F- X
3929.
4387.
4381.
0.86
0.75
0.76
- 5.7
- 19.7
7423.
4396.
22.97
30.59
34.
- 2.
1. 0.02 1.8
- 0.3
0.2
1.3
MAY - 24.0 4837. 35.22 -16. - 36
5 .. - 0.03
-0.01 - 1.9 - 7.2
15 86 4014 3 F- X 4129. 0.79 - 23.5 5338. 35.20 - 4. - 26. - 0.03
15 MAY 86 4014 4 F- X 4261. 0.76 - 28.1 4640. 38.35 - 0.4 - 4.9
16 MAY 86 5015 1 F- X 3. - 7. 0.00 0.4 - 1.6
3885. 0.72 - 5.0 7053. 26.54 43. - 30. 0.05 2.7 - 4.3
22 MAY 86 4042 2 F- X 4228. 0.81 - 27.5 5025. 37.50 6.
22 MAY 86 4042 3 F- X - 33. - 0.02 0.7 - 6.5
3980. 0.81 - 27.8 4823. 37.46 7. 0.9 1.1
22 MAY 86 4042 5 F- X 4198. 0.82 - 25.2 5070. 35.32 0. 11.
6. - 0.03
2
22 MAY 86 4042 6 F- X 4048. 0.83 0.0 2.2
23 MAY - 26.3 5075. 36.19 20. 0.
1. - 0.01
-0.01 2.3 0.0
86 5008 1 F- X 4057. 0.87 - 30.6 4915. 38.63 21.
23 MAY 86 5008 2 F- X 2.7 0.1
4068. 0.88 - 26.6 4429. 34.13 - 23. 6. - 0.04 - 2.9 1.4
23 MAY 86 5008 4 F- X 4112. 0.90 - 30.1 4844. 37.67 4.
27 MAY 86 2009 1 F- X - 5. - 0.03 0.5 - 1.1
3732. 0.71 - 5.1 6690. 24.83 - 10. 43.
17. - 0.08
0.02 - 0.6 2.6
27 MAY 86 2009 2 F- X 3641. 0.70 - 5.7 6755. 25.96 47.
26 MAY 87 487 12 F- X 4054. 3.1 6.4
MAY 0.80 - 19.9 6121. 33.06 6. -21. - 0.02 0.6 - 3.5
26 87 487 13 F- X 3934. 0.79 - 22.3 5452. 33.81 -1.
26 MAY 87 487 14 F- X 30. - 0.03 - 0.1 5.5
4104. 0.79 - 15.2 5398. 27.62 -15. 3. - 0.03 - 1.3 0.5
26 MAY 87 487 16 F- X 4095. 0.80 - 13.9 5404. 26.22 - 43. 11. - 0.06
9 JUN 87 1610 15 F- X 1924. 0.87 - 4.5 5948. 18.02 - 3.5 2.0
9 JUN 87 1610 16 8. - 2. - 0.01 0.4 - 0.3
F- X 2005. 0.86 - 4.7 6072. 18.47 0. - 9. - 0.03 0.0 - 1.4
10 JUN 87 1611 F- X 4553. 0.77
10
10
JUN
JUN
87
87
1611
1611
$
5
F- X 4329. 0.79
- 18.3
- 21.0
5582.
5706.
31.53
33.57
- 8.
16.
-71.. - 0.02
-0.01 -0.8
1.6
0.3
- 1.2
F- X 4348. 0.78 - 19.2 8750. 38.78 9. - 32. - 0.01 0.7 - 3.7
10 JUN 87 1611 7 F- X 4726. 0.76 - 22.1 5512. 34.83 - 15. - 13. - 0.05
22 JUL 87 5817 3 F- X - 1.5 - 2.4
4980. 0.80 - 27.9 6019. 39.65 - 44. - 40. - 0.06 - 4.6 -6.6
22 JUL 87 5817 4 F- X 5030. 0.74 - 25.8 5094. 37.36 -57.
22 JUL 87 5817 6 F- X - 40. - 0.07 - 6.8 - 7.8
4171. 0.78 - 23.6 5865. 36.18 -6. - 25. - 0.04 - 0.6 - 4.2
22 JUL 87 5817 7 F- X 4263. 0.78 - 26.5 5209. 37.41 8.
24 AUG 87 47 5 F- X - 9. - 0.03 0.9 - 1.6
4855. 0.75 - 21.4 5428. 33.21 - 43. - 2. 0.18 - 4.4 - 0.4
24 AUG 87 47 6 F- X 4598. 0.76 - 23.1 5547. 34.48 - 27.
10 SEP 87 1866 1 F- X -15. 0.19 - 2.7 - 2.7
4440. 0.80 - 25.8 5466. 37.14 - 7. 31. -0.05 -0.8 5.7
10 SEP 87 1866
18
18
SEP
SEP
87
87
2447
2447
44 F- X
F- X
F-x
4912.
3956.
0.75
0.78
- 20.9
- 25.8
5106.
5719.
33.31
38.23
-50.
-6.
- 22.
- 8.
-0.08
- 0.04
- 5.4
- 0.7
- 4.3
- 1.3
4323. 0.76 - 23.4 5582. 35.93 - 28. - 26. - 0.06 - 2.9 - 4.6

AVERAGE ( N = 44) 5942.2 - 4.6 - 5 . 1 -0.01 - 0.6 -1.0

16.1 13.2 1 .5 2.3
25.6
3.3
 56

ic performance is evaluated against requirements effect on the reflected energy. Specifically, in

for the weapon as specified in the developmental lasing a concrete runway, a 1- to 2-inch crack that
contract. The concern is wi& questions such as: gives a vertical development in the target would
(1)Is the seeker head responding to the specified definitely reflect more laser energy than the general
designator sensitivity requirements? flat surface. Because the energy tends to reflect
(2)Is the guidance and control unit responding along an angle equal to the incidence angle, the
in a manner appropriate to give maximum energy reflects downrange from the energy source.
required design limits?
(3) Are actuator control points receiving suffi- Within the weapon, the position of any moving
cient energy? part, the input/output of any transputer, and the
(4) Is enough force available for control unit exact orientation and location of any vector should
deflection movement throughout the flight be measured accurately. These measurements will
profile? generally require a telemetry package designed to
ensure that the moments, center-of-gravity, and
During Development Test and Evaluation, care weight of the inert dummy bomb casing remains
should be taken that a source for target designation within design limits of the parent warhead. For
is available. In this case, the designator or target most guided weapons, these measurements are
illuminator should be a ground-based system. In broken into three distinct component areas: the
addition to the target illuminator, the target area seeker, the computer, and the canard or fin guid-
should be adequately covered with a detector to ance control surfaces.
locate the centroid of reflective energy or target
contrast. In all cases, guided weapons are designed In the case of the seeker, its exact position relative
to guide or maneuver to the center of contrast or of to the bomb-body axis in roll, pitch, and yaw must
reflected energy. Without real-time measurement be measured. This measurement allows for evalua-
during the mission, questions will alwdys be raised tion of the target detecting system to ensure that
about designation operations position. Concerns adequate guidance commands are processed for the
always exist when a target miss occurs about guidance and control transputers. In addition to the
whether the problem is within the weapon system attitude or orientation of the seeker, the centroid of
or the energy source to which it is guiding. Since reflected energy as seen by the weapon must be
the designator's energy travels in a straight-line identified and recorded. This action will allow for
path, during testing it is better to have the orienta- evaluation of the control signal inputs into the
tion of the designator and the detector along the computational portion of the guidance and control
expected flight path or impact angle of the weapon. system. For example, if, based upon the telemetry
This orientation will assure that the centroid of data from the seeker, the target appeared in the
reflective energy is equivalent to that seen by the lower half of the detector assembly for some period
weapon. With DT&E testing, the target will of time and the canards deflected to give a pitch-up
generally be elevated normal to the intended flight command, then major problems exist between the
path angle; therefore, only a minimum detector seeker detector data processing and the canard
area must be covered. However, during an operd- deflection computer outputs. In this case, the real
tional test and evaluation, the entire weapon system or correct weapon maneuver would be a pitch-
is being evaluated, including the target illuminator down maneuver, which would center the reflected
source. Therefore, a wide-area target detector energy to the center of the detector screen. This
must be employed to ensure the centroid of reflec- action would have identified a problem, and, by
tive energy is recorded. Specifically, for a long- evaluation of the computational computer within
range designation for a laser designator, if even 5 the system, one should be able to isolate more
percent of the energy source should spill over the exactly the cause of a miss.
intended target, a high probability exists that the
centroid of the energy would be that area which is The second general area is the bomb-body axis
eliminated with a grass or other media surface. orientation. Accurate measuremdevaluation of
During operational evaluations, additional care these vector space variables must be identified.
must be taken to assure that the total possible illu- This main axis system has all the aerodynamic
minated surface can be identified and the center of coefficients and induced aerodynamic coefficients
reflectivity monitored. For example, with a which are applied to simulate the aerodynamic
monochromatic energy source, a small evaluation characteristics of the weapon itself. An extreme
in the impact area surface can have a significant example would be if a bomb body or a weapon
 57

body flew with a 15-degree angle of attack in a free analysis is a major injustice to system evaluation.
steady-state flight. Then the induced drag due to In ballistic analysis, primary concern is with the
angle of attack would be equal to; or greater than, basic principles of physics relating to F=ma.
the freestream aerodynamic drag for the clean body However, in the case of 6DOF or guided weapons
flying with zero-degree angle of attack. This type simulations, the concern is with a multitude of
of aerodynamic characteristics will have drastic complex mathematical and engineering disciplines.
impact on such parameters as maximum range, To understand the total system concept, a full
weapon effectiveness, and impact velocity. These awareness is required of:
last two parameters are major concerns when
evaluating total system design. For example, if the (1)the detector system principles relating to the
weapon is to be employed against a non-vertically electronics engineering discipline
developed target and the critical angle of ricochet is (2) the computational capabilities of computer
15 degrees, then the 15-degree angle of attack systems
requires that the airfoil group be given a dive direc- (3) the aeromechanic, aerodynamic, and aeroen-
tion prior to weapon impact. Otherwise, the gineering principles related to aeroelastic and
weapon will ricochet, creating either minor damage freestream body mechanics.
or no damage. If the kinetic energy of the warhead
is degraded significantly, the warhead becomes of In the development of a test plan to evaluate guided
minimum value against hardened targets. For weapons, careful attention must be given to test
instance, if the intended target array were covered measurements. Without accurate, precise, and
by 4 feet of reinforced concrete but the weapon time-correlated measurements of all possible
only retained sufficient energy to penetrate 2 feet parameters, major problems can be anticipated in
of concrete, then the weapon would be without trying to identify system performance, especially in
utility in this particular scenario. trying to extrapolate and interpolate performance
characteristics to conditions that will be a primary
The third general area is the airfoil or airfoil actua- concern to the operational commands.
tion measurement requirements. The internal
kinetic energy within the guided system should be
measured along with the actual control surface 10.0 APPLICATION OF ANALYSIS/TEST
movement. In evaluating guided weapons, one RESULTS
should not assume that control surface movement
will occur because direction to deflect to maneuver 10.1 Presentation of Results in Dash 25 and
has been generated by the computer system itself. Dash 34 Series Technical Orders
For example, a full pitchdown command may be
given by the computer processing; however, if the Based on results of analysis/tests, ballistics tables
pressure available for canard deflection is such that are prepared for inclusion in technical orders
aerodynamic loading will not allow for deflection, (To's). In the USAF, there are Dash 34 Series
then the canard will deflect so that the internal To's for nonnuclear stores and Dash 25 Series
pressure is equal to the aerodynamic pressure on To's for nuclear stores. The information presented
the canard. Additionally, the actual control surface in these To's provides aircrews with the technical
deflection must be measured to evaluate the accu- data necessary to plan for weapons delivery.
racy of the wind-tunnel-collected aerodynamic
data. Aerodynamic influence of control surface Ballistic tables are developed for specific aircraft,
deflection is usually measured in given increments weapon loadouts, and delivery modes using the
by deflecting the control surfaces a predetermined validated freestream store drag and separation-
angular amount and evaluating the induced roll, effects databases. The ballistics for each weapon,
pitch, yaw, and drag faces due to canard deflec- together with the specific aircraft aerodynamic
tions. The control surfaces would then be set at a characteristics, are calculated on a mainframe
different angle and the process repeated. By computer for all required combat operations.
measuring the exact angular orientation during Using mathematical models described earlier,
tests, non-linear trends between wind tunnel data calculations are made for bomb range, bomb time
points might be identified and corrected. of fall, slant range, impact angle, sight depression,
and wind correction factors as dictated by type of
In summary, attempting to relate point mass ballis- delivery, weapon, aircraft, and specific user needs.
tic analysis and simulation to guided simulation The ballistic tables are based on International Civil
 58

Aviation Organization (ICAO) standard day condi- fuze combinations, delivery parameters, and escape
tions. Variations from the standard day are con- maneuvers. These charts include time of fall,
sidered to have negligible effects on trajectory minimum release altitudes for safe escape, and
accuracy due to the usually short time of flight of vertical drop values required for fuze arming
weapons when released in level and dive modes at values. Time-of-fall values are the minimum times
low/medium altitudes. However, since lofted for release at which a weapon can detonate and
weapons generally have longer times of flight, satisfy the safe separation criteria. Minimum
consideration of target density altitude is important release altitude values represent the minimum alti-
for calculating accurate ballistic trajectory data. tude for release of a particular munition to ensure
Table VI11 is a typical presentation of ballistic criteria for safe escape are satisfied. Vertical drop
tables as published in - 34 To's for the MK 84 required for fuze arming values is based on all
Air Inflatable Retarder (low drag mode) released in delays that affect fuze arming (wiring, retardation-
the loft mode. Table IX presents ballistic tables for device opening times, inherent fuze delays, and the
the same store released in the dive mode. positive tolerances on arming times). Table X
shows a typical safe-escape chart as presented in
To effectively plan a mission to deliver weapons, Dash 34 Series TO'S.
consideration must also be given to safe escape,
safe separation, vertical drop required for fuze Dash 34 Series l a ' s can be quite voluminous for
arming, and the altitude lost during dive recovery. aircraft that are authorized to carry a wide variety
The lowest release altitude that provides the deliv- of stores. The length of ballistic tables alone can
ery aircraft with acceptable protection from be several hundred pages. In addition, the need for
weapon fragmentation is known as the safe escape supporting information such as a description of the
value. This value is determined through computer aircraft weapon delivery system, a description of
analyses of weapon fragmentation envelopes when the stores themselves, and safe escape data makes
related to specified delivery profiles and specific the size of Dash 34 To's for each aircraft quite
escape maneuvers of the delivery aircraft. These large. In an effort to streamline and simplify the
values are based on normal functioning of weapons presentation of data for aircrews, a Dash 34 Stan-
with detonation at ground impact (except for dard Volume (SV) has recently be developed
CBU's). In the case of CBU's, safe escape values (Reference 19). 'fie SV contains all of the gener-
are based on failure of the canister to open and ic, non-aircraft-specific information that aircrews
detonation of the intact cluster at ground impact. need to plan their missions. For example, the SV
The values presented in s a k escape charts are contains needed information for all stores. Thus,
based on various probabilities of hit. In the USAF, the information for each store need not be repeated
a probability of hit of less th'an, or equal to, 0.001 in each aircraft-specific Dash 34 TO. With the
per pass is frequently used. introduction of the SV, the Dash 34 TO for each
aircraft need only contain the information that is
Safe separation values correspond to the minimum unique for each aircraft.
detonation times after release that provide the
delivery aircraft with acceptable protection from 10.2 Joint Mudtion Effectiveness Mauuals
early weapon detonation (airbursts). These values (JMEEvl'S)
differ from safe escape values that deal with
ground bursts. Safe separation requirements must JMEM are joint service authenticated weaponing
be met when delivering proximity-fuzed, general- manuals which present evaluations of the effective-
purpose bombs and CBU's with specific function ness of conventional weapons against selected
times. Safe separation need not be considered for targets. Also discussed are weapon characteristics,
impact-fuzed, general-purpose bombs because of target vulnerability, delivery accuracy, methodolo-
the small likelihood of early detonation at fuze gy, reliability, and air-combat maneuvering with
arming. Safe separation requirements are met by emphasis on weapons currently in inventory. Data
using minimum fuze arming times that provide is also included on some weapons which are pro-
sufficient aircraft-to-weapon separation prior to the grammed for future use. Use o f these manuals is
fuze arming. essential to ensure proper mission planning.
JMEM's are divided into three categories of
Safe escapekafe separation charts provide safe weapon applications. The major categories are:
escapelsafe separation and vertical drop data re- Air-to-Surface (61A1 Series), Anti-War (61B1
quired for fuze arming for various weapons and Series), and Surface-to-Surface (61S1 Series).
 Table VIII. Ballistic Tables for MK 82 AIR (Low Drag)
Released from an Aircraft in Loft Mode

45000 LBS GROSS WEIGHT

IMP TIME RANGE WIND CORR
TGT APPROACH RELEASE TIME REL RANGE PNG REL REL FACTORS
DEN ALT TAS ANG ALT PULL- ATT PULL- TO TO H / T CROSS
ALT UP TO UP TO
REL IMP IMP IMP CRAB
DEG SEC FT FT/KT
FT FT KTS DEG FT SEC OEG FT

io 328 2.5 14.8 9712 15 9.85 7588 21 1

0 200 500 14.02 10265 29 2
15 464 3.3 19.9 13004 21
20 650 4.0 25.0 15860 27 18.14 12533 37 3
25 878 4.7 30.2 18188 34 22.07 14308 45 4
30 1145 5.5 35.4 19961 40 25.76 15568 53 6
35 1442 6.1 40.6 21172 46 29.16 16313 60 6
40 1763 6.8 45.9 21832 51 32.25 16554 66 7
45 2101 7.5 51.2 21966 56 35.01 16319 72 7

io 350 2.7 13.9 11291 14 10.62 8826 22 1

550 11916 32 3
15 513 3.5 19.0 15116 21 15.19
20 733 4.3 24.1 18385 18 19.64 14186 40 4
25 1005 5.1 29.3 2 1028 34 23.88 16473 49 6
30 1320 5.9 34.5 23030 41 27.83 17969 57 7
35 1671 6.6 39.7 24396 47 31.48 18683 64 8
40 2049 7.3 45.0 25141 52 34.79 19935 71 9
45 2448 8.0 50.2 25296
10 372 2.8 13.0 12823 14 11.33 10016 24 2
600 13451 34 3
15 56 1 3.7 18. 1 17110 21 16.22
815 4.6 23.3 20718 28 20.95 16253 43 5
20 7
25 1 126 5.4 28.5 23610 35 25.41 18392 52
1486 6.2 33.7 25792 41 29.58 19882 60 8
30 68 9
35 1886 7.0 39.0 2728 1 47 33.42 20742
40 2317 7.8 44.3 28094 53 36.91 20994 75 io
45 2768 8.6 49.6 28260 58 40.03 20667 82 io
10 392 2.9 12.8 14089 15 11.88 10968 25 2
650 35 4
15 601 3.9 17.8 18674 21 16.98 14607
20 881 4.8 22.9 22483 29 21.87 17529 45 5
25 1221 5.7 28.0 25522 36 26.48 19745 54 7
30 1614 6.5 33.2 27808 42 30.77 21276 63 9
35 2048 7.3 38.5 29361 48 34.71 22146 71 io
40 2515 8.2 43.7 30210 53 38.30 22387 78 11
45 3004 8.9 49.1 30379 58 41.52 22022 85 11

10 407 2.4 16.0 8561 16 9.61 6758 20 1

300 450 8901 28 2
-
15 519
.~ 3.1 21.1 11208 22 13.24
20 671 3.7 26.3 13558 28 16.90 10770 35 3
25 858 4.4 31.4 15497 34 20.43 12256 42 4
30 1076 5.0 36.7 16975 40 23.75 13314 49 4
35 1320 5.7 41.9 17980 45 26.83 13935 55 5
40 - 1584
.. 6.3 47.2 18515 51
56
29.63
32.12
14128
13906
61
66
5
5
45 1861 6.8 52.6 18596
500 10 428 2.5 14.8 10082 16 10.36 7958 22 1
15 564 3.3 19.9 13267 22 14.42 10527 30 2
20 749 4.0 25.1 16056 28 18.46 12729 38 3
25 978 4.7 30.2 18342 34 22.34 14462 46 5
30 1245 5.5 35.4 20085 40 25.99 15693 53 6
35 1542 6.1 40.6 21274 46 -~
29.37
~
16416 60 6
40 1863 6.8 45.9 21918 52 32.44 16640 66 7
45 2201 7.5 51.2 22038 56 35.19 16391 72 7
 Table PX. Ballistic Tables for MK 82 AIR (ILow Drag)
Released from an Aircraft in Dive Mode

D I V E RELEASE BOMB TIME SLANT IMPACT SDFP WIND CORRECTION

ANG ALT TAS RANGE OF RANGE ANGLE DEP/AOJ FACTORS
ABOVE FALL H/T CROSS
TGT DRIFT
DEG FT KTS FT SEC FT DEG MILS M I L S / K l ' FT/KT

5 500 450 2622 3.57 2670 15 104/1.7 .4 6

500 2808 3.44 2853 14 91/1.6 .4 6
550 2980 3.33 302 1 13 81/1.5 .3 6
600 3137 3.22 3177 12 73/1.4 .3 5
650 3281 3.12 3319 11 66/1.3 .2 5
5 600 450 2978 4.07 3038 16 114/1.7 .5 7
500 3197 3.94 3253 15 100/1.6 .4 7
550 3400 3.81 3453 14 89/1.5 .3 6
600 3588 3.70 3638 13 80/1.4 .3 6
650 3760 3.59 3808 12 73/1.3 .3 6
5 700 450 3308 4.53 338 1 17 123/1.6 .5 8
500 3559 4.40 3627 16 109/1.5 .4 7
550 3792 4.27 3856 15 97/1.4 .3 7
600 4008 4.15 4069 14 87/1.3 .3 7
650 4208 4.04 4266 13 79/1.2 .3 7
5 800 450 3617 4.97 3704 18 132/1.6 .5 8
500 3897 4.83 3979 17 1 1 7 / i .5 .4 8
550 4159 4.70 4236 16 104/1.4 .4 8
600 4404 4.58 4476 15 94/1.3 .3 8
650 4629 4.46 4698 14 85/1.2 .3 8
5 900 450 3908 5.39 401 1 19 141/1 . 6 .5 9
500 4217 5.25 4312 18 125/1.4 .4 9
550 4507 5.11 4596 16 111/1,4 .4 9
600 4777 4.99 4861 15 100/1.3 .3 8
650 5028 4.87 5108 14 91/1.2 .3 8
5 1000 450 4185 5.78 4303 20 14w1.5 .5 10
500 4521 5.64 4630 19 132/1.4 .4 io
550 4837 5.51 4939 17 11w1.3 .4 9
600 5132 5.37 5228 16 107/1.2 .3 9
650 5407 5.26 5498 15 97/1.1 .3 9
10 800 450 2784 3.85 2896 21 108/1.8 .6 6
500 2935 3.66 3042 19 94/1.7 .5 6
550 3069 3.48 3171 18 83/1.6 .5 6
600 3187 3.32 3286 1 '7 73/1.5 .4 6
650 3291 3.17 3387 16 66/1.4 .4 5

io 900 450 3045 4.22 3175 21 115/1.8 .6 7

500 3217 4.02 334 1 20 100/1.7 .6 7
550
~~. 3370 3.83 3488 19 88/1.6 .5 6
600 3506 3.66 3619 18 79/1.5 .4 6
650 3625 3.51 3735 17 71/1.4 .4 6

10 1000 450 3295 4.58 3443 22 122/1.7 .7 8

500 3488 4.37 3628 21 107/1.6 .6 7
550 3660 4.17 3794 19 94/1.5 .5 7
600 3813 3.99 3942 18 84/1.5 .4 7
650 3949 3.83 4073 17 75/1.3 .4 6

10 1100 450 3535 4.92 3702 23 129/1.7 .7 8

500 3748 4.71 3906 21 113/,l.6 .6 8
550 3939 4.51 4090 20 99/.1.5 .5 8
600 4110 4.32 4254 19 89/'1.4 .4 7
650 4261 4.15 4401 18 80/'1.3 .4 7

io 1200 450 3767 5.26 3953 24 136/.1.7 .7 9

500 4000 5.04 4176 22 1i Q / ' l . 6 .6 9
550 4209 4.83 4377 21 105/'1.5 .5 8
600 4397 4.63 4558 19 93/l.4 .5 8
650 4564 4.46 4719 19 84/1.3 .4 8
 Table X. Safe Escape Chart

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YOTS ‘EET SEC PEET FEET FEET
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0 450 520 5.13 590 23 720 197

500 480 4.90 540 25 640 178
550 420 4.55 480 28 570 162
600 390 4.38 440 30 510 148
650 380 4.33 410 32 490 141

5 450 770 4.77 a sa 17 1120 251

500 750 4.55 840 18 1070 235
550 710 4.25 790 19 1030 222
600 690 4.05 770 20 960 213
650 700 4.00 770 20 950 206

10 450 1070 4.74 1180 11 1610 304

500 1080 4.56 1190 14 1590 290
550 1040 4.23 1160 14 1580 279
600 1050 4.09 1150 14 1500 276
650 1070 4.01 1170 15 1490 141 11810 212

15 450 1380 4.77 1500 11 1130 188 2730 351

500 1410 4.50 1530 11 1180 183 2760 342
550 1390 4.29 1510 11 2200 180 2800 336
600 1410 4.13 1510 11 1140 179 2700 334
650 1460 4.08 1580 12 1100 178 2590 318

20 (50 1680 4.78 1820 9 2660 215 1410 397

500 1720 4.5’1 1870 9 2740 211 3*80 395
550 1730 4.32 1900 9 1800 211 3570 392
600 1770 4.10 1910 9 2810 213 3570 396
650 1830 4.11 1970 9 2740 215 3520 398

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10.3 Mission Support System (MSS) of the weapon delivery portion of mission plan-
ning, analysts initiated the development of the first
The goal of MSS is to provide the combat pilot MWDP. This program, in essence, adapted main-
with the computerized m l s necessary to plan his frame weapon delivery algorithm used in the
missions in an efficient and timely manner while generation of data in Dash 34 To's to a microcom-
addressing the increasingly complex issues of puter platform. The program was written in the
modem air-to-air and air-to-surface combat. With BASIC programming language and was released to
the phenomenal growth in computer sophistication the field in the summer of 1083. The program
in the last several years, available hardware and allows aircrews to select an aircraft maneuver and
software platforms exist that are capable of radical- weapon for release from a menu of available data-
ly altering the manner and speed in which pilots bases. The program then allows for computation
plan their combat missions. The amount of time of the appropriate maneuver entry points (location,
required to plan a routine air-to-ground mission by altimde, and time) for successful ballistics em-
hand is probably not immediately obvious to the ployment and informs the aircrew of any modifica-
reader. The pilot must consult aircraft perfor- tions necessary to the planned flight profile to
mance manuals, Dash 34 Series To's, JMEM's, ensure safe escape. The general goal of reducing
and pertinent Air Force Regulations; perform the amount of time and individual references a pilot
various computations; interpret charts; and perform needs to accomplish weaponsdelivery planning
related tasks. This process may require many exceeded expectations. The MWDP enables the
hours. aircrew to select maneuvers based on empirical
aircraft performance information and to quickly
It is generally agreed that an acceptable MSS utilize pre-computed ballistic and safe escape ta-
should have at least the following capabilities: bles. This information is taken from data sources
flight planning, weapon delivery, and penetration- produced in support of Dash 34 To's. One
aids functionality (in combination with easily MWDP limitation that was quickly identified was
updated databases), and aircraft cartridge load. In the burden imposed upon the significantly less
terms of a hardwareisoftware platform to support powerful hardware platform (8-bit and 16-bit
these areas, the following features are required: microprocessors) by the computation of store tra-
automatic data storage and retrieval including any jectories. However, this limitation was satisfactori-
necessary pre-entered databases, computational ly overcome by development of a variable step-size
facilities, digital map access and display, and intui- integration algorithm. Other limitations imposed
tive displays and controls ma.pped into a consistent by target hardware platforms impacted the relative
madmachine interface. Essentially, these features ease in which databases could be modified and
provide the equivalent of a high-performance updated. The program has been enhanced and
engineering workstation with a large on-line and improved for several years and is now standardized
secondary storage, a high-resolution color display, by the USAF on Zenith 248 microcomputers.
a mouse or trackball input device, and a keyboard.
10.3.2 MSS Weapon Delivery Module
A discussion of the flight planning and penetration 0
aids portion of MSS is beyond the scope of this
volume. Therefore, the following discussion is Work is currently underway for the development of
limited to the weapon delivery portion of MSS. a new MWDP rhat will offer even further en-
Essentially, weapon delivery planning software hancements. In 1986, analysts at Eglin were
supports the automation of the tasks specified in requested by the Tactical Air Command PAC) to
Dash 34 To's. Analysts at Eglin have produced develop a weapon delivery capability for a new
two software products in this arena: a Microcom- automated tactical mission planning system, MSS.
puter Weapon Delivery Program (MWDP) and a This system is best described as the first organized,
Mission Support System (MSS) Weapon Delivery dedicated initiative on the part of TAC to develop a
Module (WDM). standard mission planning capability for all USAF
combat aircraft. The MSS Weapon Delivery
10.3.1 Microcomputer Weapon Delivery Module (WDM) effort was subsequently initiated
program as a separate and distinct software development
program from the MWDP discussed earlier. The
In 1981, based on the increasing demands from hardware platform was a CrornemcoiUNIX syS-
field units to automate the time-consuming process tem, which is a minicomputer platform offering
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considerably higher performance and capacities The madmachine interface of this system will
than the previous microcomputer platforms. This probably follow current engineering workstation
system was a dramatic departure from the plat- platforms in supplying a single, high-resolution
forms that the MWDP had executed on previously. monitor which displays all textual and graphic
The system configuration roughly corresponded to information on the same screen, and a keyboard
the MWDP. Initially, the program was converted and mouse for the input and manipulation of data
from BASIC to PASCAL programming language, significant to mission planning. Several capabili-
which is a more sophisticated and higher-level ties have been identified that will probably find
language. This translation was necessary to meet their way into the MSS 111 configurations. These
requirements regarding common USAF program- configurations include:
ming standards, While this conversion was taking (1)Refinement of aircraft flight path computa-
place, modifications to the program logic were tions to more accurately support safe escape
being made to accommodate a parallel flight plan- and ballistic issues
ning capability development effort underway by (2) Refinement of store ballistics trajectory
TAC. This work was performed over a period of computations (potentially resorting to the use
several years, with considerable improvement in of very high-fidelity 6DOF simulation algo-
the capabilities of the program being accomplished rithms)
simultaneously. The capabilities of the current (3) Application of sophisticated, intelligent
WDM include: the ability to perform ballistic computations surrounding safe escape to
calculations for single bomb or ripple releases support the capability of programmatic
based upon level, dive, loft/toss, and pop-up deliv- analysis of delivery options to allow alterna-
ery profiles; the ability to calculate safe escape data tivehmproved safe escape criteria
for level and dive deliveries; and the ability to (4) Complete encapsulation of weapon delivery
calculate CBU patterns. In addition to supplying planning with a “what-if‘ analysis capability
improved functionality over the original micro- so that pilots may easily implore the modifi-
computer version in these areas, the WDM also cation of weapon delivery parameters to
incorporates the latest ripple safe escape data and support miscellaneous employment con-
store separation coefficient information, fuze straints, such as threat factors)
timing capabilities, and an easy-to-use, text-based (5)Support for guided weapons
madmachine interface. The reader may be inter- (6)Radical improvements in the madmachine
ested in Reference 20, which contains a complete interface to make weapon delivery mission
description of the computerized weapon planning planning easier and more intuitive.
software.
Whiie the details of MSS III are not finalized, the
10.4 FutureMSS objectives of the system are clearly to provide
pilots with an enhanced capability to efficiently
In recent years, significant advances have been plan combat missions in an increasingly complex
made in tactical systems, especially with the intro- environment.
duction of the F-15E fighter and similar sophisti-
cated aircraft and weapon systems. These advanc- The future of mission planning and, in particular,
es have provided a tremendous impetus for im- weapons delivery is on the threshold of entering an
proved mission planning systems. In both software entirely new domain of extremely sophisticated,
and hardware, aircraft and weapon systems are integrated scenarios. The future will undoubtedly
leading the development of capable mission plan- see these systems being interwoven with theater-
ning systems. In response to this situation, third- level battle management systems and high-volume,
generation mission planning capability (MSS m)is satellite information sources. It also seems likely
under development. The system will probably that in an effort to provide unparalleled support for
include flight planning, penetration aids, weapon flexible weapon delivery pIanning, the systems
delivery planning, real-time data-gathering capabil- flight and balance algorithms, in the form of
ity (threat information), and the like. This system complex software packages, will be incorporated
will probably use large optical media devices to into an MSS III. This incorporation would allow
provide storage and on-line access to databases that complete and extremely high-quality simulation
essentially contain all the information currently capability, conceivably to the point of simulating
stored in technical orders. the combined trajectories of all aircraft, weapons,
and submunitions in a rigorous computational
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description of the entire air-to-surface environment. The mission summary is the day-byday working
While this arrangement may sound unachievable, if tool of the test engineers and analysts.
is possible with today's hardware and software
technology to construct platforms capable, at least 11.2 OFP Accuracy Test Example
in terms of "raw" computing capability, of doing
exactly this type of simulation. In addition to the The F-16 21 test plan found in Appendix F is a
outright capabilities of such systems, we can expect good example of how an OFP Accuracy 'Test can
to see madmachine interface becoming equally be accomplished. The TD and MOT are the same
sophisticated. Judging from the likely initial opera- as described earlier.
tional capability of such a system, it is probable
that pilots will communicate with the system using 12.0 FINAL IREMARKS ON DATA
voice, true three-dimensional stereoscopic projec- COLLECTION
tion systems, and physical manipulation methods
(such as light pens, joysticks, and mice). On an In any testing environment, all possible uses of the
even broader horizon, it is likely that, with the data should be considered before proceeding with
growing integration of weapon system and aircraft the project. In general, adding a minimum effort
avionics, weapon planning systems will probably in dafa collecting, will increase the utility of the
become mandatory components in all onboard data drastically. For example, with adequate pre-
combat aircraft computer systems, including planning of a freestream ballistics testing matrix,
support simulation platforms. the information required to develop separation-
effects coefficieiits for at least one aircraft can be
11.0 EXAMPLES OF TEST PLANS AND collected. This collection will sometimes require
ANhLYSES RESULTS coordination between the analyst and the weapon
System Program Office (SPO). Specifically, the
11.1 Freestream Drag and Separation- SPO has a requirement to develop freestream bal-
Effects Example listics and demonstrate a capability of carriage and
release of the weapon from several aircraft. In the
The test plan for the BLU-107 in Appendix E is a past, this demonstration has prompted dropping of
good example of multi-purpose test integration. As three to five weapons from each aircraft type and
stated earlier, there are two types of weapons: tracking these weapons to develop freestream bal-
intact and functioning. This test plan is for an listics. By restructuring the test and releasing all
intact weapon, but the format is the same for both weapons from one aircraft type, sufficient data can
weapons. The only differences between an intact be collected to develop separation effects for the
weapon test plan and that of a functioning weapon one aircraWweapon combination as well as to
are the test objectives and the amount and type of develop freestream ballistics.
data to be collected and reduced. The BLU-107
plan was originally designed for flight certification, Likewise, for OFP testing, the only required data
but with careful planning, it was expanded to are aircraft positioning, pipper placement, and
include freestream ballistics and separation-effects ground impact. However, if separation-effects
testing. The test plan consists of the Test Directive adjustments are required after verification and
(TD), which lists background information pertinent without TSPI having been collected on the weapon,
to the test, the test objectivps, and the method of the expenditure of additional stores will be re-
test (Mar). This MOT provides as many exact quired. This effort will always be more expensive
details of the test as possible at the time of concep- than collecting the data during the first test. Air-
tion. The TD is a contract between the organiza- craft avionics input into the Stores Management
tions conducting and analyzing the test, while the System is not absolutely required but has been
MOT is the detailed description of events that will found to be valuable. The aircraft computes a
occur. Attached to the MOT are detailed mission weapon range b a e d upon space vector inputs from
summaries that describe the exact aircraft loadout, the INS and the weapon aerodynamics. It is entire-
data requirements, and delivery conditions for each ly possible for a mission to be accomplished with
mission of the test. By using mission summaries, the wrong weapon code identified in the computer.
the progress of the test can be tracked in greater With the INS inputs, this error is easily identifi-
detail and, if the need to change missions arises, able; without this data, many hours may be spent
mission summaries can be changed on an individual trying to determine what caused a gross miss.
basis without having to change the TD or MOT.
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Another use for the INS input data is for an analyt- in this case, release disturbance is highly unlikely
ical evaluation of system accuracy after the final to be a major factor in trajectory modeling.
ballistics equations are identified. Given that a
weapon is released at point A, it will impact at In summary, it is highly encouraged that all possi-
point B consistently except for a small ballistics ble information such as aircraft TSPI, weapon
dispersion. The only difference a change in drag TSPI, INS inputs, and HUD video he collected
coefficients or the addition of separation effects is when conducting ballistics testing. This procedure
going to have is a change in weapon range and allows the use of data in a multitude of different
time-of-fall. When these changes are the case, one applications and will ultimately result in lower total
can analytically model on a mainframe, using the system development cost than piece-meal testing
avionics inputs and updated drag coefficients or with data being collected to satisfy only one test
separation effects, what the sight-picture would objective at one time.
have been had the OFP used the updated data. The
results should then be compared with follow-up 13.0 CONCLUSION
OFP accuracy testing and be included in the accu-
racy database for increased precision in estimating Until recent years, the techniques for performing
system capabilities. In the case where an old ballistics analyses/testing have not changed appre-
weapon is being added to a new aircraft, separa- ciably. Now, however, every day seems to herald
tion-effects testing or freestream ballistic testing new technical advances that touch every aspect of
can be used for accuracy assessment if the pipper this subject. It is earnestly hoped that publication
placement is recorded. This is especially true for of this volume will be of value in introducing the
older weapons which have a large database for reader to this most important subject and stimulat-
freestream ballistic development and a rigid-wing, ing reader contributions that enhance/enlarge the
slow-speed airframe. Experience has shown that, documented database for all to share.
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 APPENDIX A

QUESTIONS ON BALLISTIC ANALYSES AND TESTING

WITH RESPONSES FROM CANADA, FRANCE, AND GERMANY

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EUROPEAN FACT-FINDING TRIP

FOR
AGARDOGRAF'H ON BALLISTIC ANALYSES AND TESTING

Purpose: To obtain details as to how European nations perform ballistic analyses and flight testing.
European inputs will enhance completeness of AGARDOGRAPH. Inputs will also highlight areas that
could he standardized to streamline this work among all allied nations.

Information Sought: The following is a list of some of the major questions to he asked. Naturally,
during the course of conversations, other questions will he asked:

1. Provide a historical perspective on your nation's involvement in ballistic analyses andl flight
testing.
For example, how has this work evolved over the years? Provide a brief synopsis of how this work
was performed in the past as compared to how it is being performed now.

2. How are ballistic accuracy requirements established?

Presumably, these are established by the military. Specifically, what is the process by which criteria
are established for a given store to impact a given distance from the intended target? What is the
criteria?

3. Once accuracy requirements are established, what are the demonstration criteria and how are
the criteria established?
For example, once the military specifies an accuracy criteria, how many stores are required to be
released against a target during a test program to establish statistical confidence as to the results?

4. Who specifies aircraft/store configurations to be tested and aircraft release parameters?

Does the military determine this or is this left to the discretion of the test organization? For example,
if there is a requirement to establish accuracy for a MK 82 bomb from an F-16, and there are dozens
of configurations involved (e.g., with and without fuel tanks, ECM pods, multiple or single carriage,
etc.), who decides what the release envelope to be tested should be? For example, should stores be
released at multiple aircraft dive angles and at all airspeedslaltitudes that are authorized? This would
take a lot of stores!

5. Provide a brief synopsis of the types of aircraft and stores used by your nation for which ballistic
analysis and testing is required and performed,
For example, do aircraft have optical sights and/or weapon delivery computers? Are stores generally
of the iron bomb type (non-functioning) or do they have functioning fins or other functioning parts that
affect ballistic analyses and testing?

6. Summarize ground and airborne test requirements/capabilities to support ballistic analyses and
flight testing.
For example, how do you track aircraft to obtain exact release conditions/position and how do you
pinpoint store impact coordinates? What type of ground cameras are used (frame rate and other
technical characteristics)? Describe your overall range procedures for ballistic testing (e.g.,
procedures for various data sources). Are smoothing procedures used for time-space-position-
information (TSPI)? What are your camera requirements? What are your data format requirements?
What are your telemetry requirements?

7. Describe pretest preparations.

For example, are store mass properties determined? Are aircraft boresighted (and if so, how
regularly)? Are cameras and other equipment calibrated (and if so, what equipment)?

8. Are aircrews given any special procedures to follow during ballisticls flight testing?
If so, what are they (and why were they derived)?
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9. Describe your ballistic analysis and prediction tools/codes.

Are you satisfied with their results?

10. When stores do not hit their intended targets, what do you do about it?
Accept results? What are considered to he sources of error for stores not hitting their intended targets?
Once the weapon freestream ballistics have been derivedlverifid, do you have any further analysis
(is., in support of overall system accuracy assessment)?

11. Provide examples as to how ballistics data is provided to aircrews.

12. What improvements do you plan to make in the coming years to improve ballistic
analysis/prediction tools, range capabilities, aircraft instrumentation capabilities, etc.?

13. Have you had any particular problems in the area of ballistic analysis and testing that you would
care to discuss?

14. Once requirements are defined, how are ballistic flight test programs developed?
Specifically, who developed the test matrix and how is it developed?

15. Is ballistics data ever gathered in conjunction with a store separation test program?

16. Clarify the role of the military and industry in ballistic analyses and flight testing.
For example, does the military/government perform all work or is part of (or all) work performed by
industry?

17. What portion, if any, of ballistics-related analysis and testing is classified?

If classified, what is your classification level?

18. Can a list of references be provided on the subject covered by the AGARD report being
prepared?
It would be most helpful to obtain a copy of those reports which are considered to be especially
informative in describing your nation's capabilities in the subject area.

ROBERT J. ARNOLD
Chief, Office for Aircraft
Compatibility
(904) 882-5434
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RESPONSE FROM CANADA

HISTORICAL

The Canadian Forces (CF) have just recently established an air weapon ballistics methodology policy
which is integrated in the stores clearance process in a manner similar to the USPLF SEEK EAGLE
Program. The reason for absence of such a policy in the past was primarily due to lack of full-time staff
assigned to CF ballistics matters.

1. Historical perspeetive on Canada's involvement in ballistic analyses and flight testing

Prior to establishment of the CF air weapon ballistics methodology policy, ballistic analyses and testing
were conducted somewhat independently, under National Defence Headquarters (NDHQ) cognizance,
by the Defence Research Establishment in Valcartier @REV) and the CF Aerospace Engineering Test
Establishment (AETE). DREV was used as a scientific agency to determine weapon components
physical and aerodynamic data, to develop algorithms to calculate weapon trajectories, and to produce
ballistic tables. AETE was used as a flight test establishment to verify predicted weapon trajectories.

A recent reorganization within the air weapons section of NDHQ allowed the CF to now have full-time
personnel working on CF air weapon ballistics and to provide configuration control of CF air weapons
ballistics activities.

AETE was then tasked by NDHQ to act as the CF source of engineering excellence, with respect to air
weapon ballistics, to support the NDHQ air weapon bdlistics personnel. This tasking is a standing
project which tasks on a continuing basis. AETE ballistic engineers have established air weapon
validation and accuracy procedures for Canadian 2.75-inch rockets (CRV-7) and practice bombs.

2. How are ballistic accuracy requirements established?

These requirements are established by CF operational and technical staffs. In establishing an aircraft
weapon delivery system accuracy, direct and indirect limitations must be considered. Direct limitation
could be errors in the aircraft sight setting, aiming errors, and angle-of-attack errors. Indirect
limitations such as the accuracies of the attitude indicator, the altimeter, and the wind corrections must
also be considered. Also the human factor is considered with respect to how close to the desired
release conditions the pilot will, on average, release the weapon.

3. Once accuracy requirements are established, what are the demonstration criteria and how are
the criteria established?

For verification and validation of the CRV-7 rockets ballistic algorithms, an accuracy requirement of
2.0 mils between predicted and actual impact points is required by CF operational and technical staffs.
The sample size required to validate ballistic algorithms is not constant, and the method used to
determine this sample size is described in the AETE Technical Memorandum No. 545.

Once a weapon ballistic algorithm has been validated, the overall accuracy of this weapon when
released from different types of aircraft must be estimated and validated. To estimate an aircraft
weapon system overall accuracy when releasing a specific weapon, circular error probable (CEP)
values are determined within 20 percent of their true values with a 95-percent confidence level. This
means that at least 47 independent statistically successful weapon releases are necessary to achieve
such an estimation.

Once this specific aircraftlweapon CEP has been estimated, the number of test points required to
validate it is calculated following the procedure outlined in the AETE Technical Memorandum No.
597. In short, a test of hypothesis approach is followed to ensure the weapon system meets the
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claimed accuracy. This means each case under consideration may require a different number of
weapon releases to establish the correctness of the estimation.

4. Who specifies aircraftlstore configurations to be tested and aircraft release parameters?

NDHQ operational and technical staffs specify aircraft/store configurations to be tested and release
parameters to AETE via flight test Project Directives. Normally, releases are conducted at numerous
points in the weapon-release envelope in order to best cover this envelope. As well, all wing stations
may be used to release the weapons and to study weapons trajectories after launch. Weapons are also
released under selected dive angle, altitude, and airspeed conditions. As an example, for the
production of MK 82 bomb delivery tables from the CF-5, an extensive flight trials program was
conducted where 150 bombs were dropped in high and low drag configurations. The bombs were
dropped at each of four selected combinations of dive angle, altitude, and airspeed from the centerline
and the four wing pylon stations.

5. Brief synopsis of the types of aircraft and stores used by Canada for which ballistic analysis and
testing is required and performed

The CF fighter aircraft that carry weapons are the CF-18 and the CF-5; both aircraft have optical
sights and the CF-18 has an integrated fire control system. These fighters are cleared for the following
CF air-to-ground weapons: MK 82 LD and HD (Snakeye), MK 20, BL-755, and CRV-7 (C-14 and C-
15 versions). These aircraft are also cleared to employ other weapons that are not in Canadian
inventory. The CF-18 computer system contains all the ballistic data needed to release these weapons.
The CF has manual ballistic tables for all weapons cleared on the CF-5, and for the BL-755 and CRV-
7 for the CF-18. However, CF-18 BL-755 manual ballistic tables have not been verified.

6 . Summarize ground and airborne test requirementsleapabilities to support ballistic analyses and
flight testing.

The phototheodolite tracking system is normally the primary data acquisition source used by the CF at
AETE. Of the nine Contraves Model F phototheodolites available at AETE, five are normally used to
track the aircraft and stores. Data from a minimum of three phototheodolite sites are required for a
solution, but five are used to allow for equipment or tracking failures. The phototheodolites are all
synchronized and are normally run at 30 frames/second. The azimuth, elevation, IRIG B time code
and tracking error are read from each film and are computed to produce time-space-position-
information. No smoothing of the phototheodolite data is necessary to produce TSPI, but five-point
moving arc smoothing is applied to the computed TSPI if velocity or acceleration is to be derived.
High speed (400 frames per second) motion picture cameras (IPL photosonics) might be used as well
as over-the-shoulder cameras in single-seat CF-18 to record the Head Up Display (HUD).

The following information on the instrumentation used by AETE to support ballistic analysis is also
provided:

a. A pickle-tone generator is actuated by the weapon release button and a UHF signal is transmitted to
all instrumentation systems for correlation purposes;

b. Telemetry is used to give a backup source of aircraft parameters at release, which are also
displayed in real time at a ground station, to assist in the conduct of the test;

c. Radar is used to generate coarse TSPI as a backup to the phototheodolites and also as an input to
the ground station CRT situation display. The test aircraft are normally equipped with C Band
transponders for radar tracking, but the aircraft can be skin-tracked with a lesser certainty of
maintaining lock; and

d. Meteorological data are acquired by tethersodes or radiosondes, just before or after the test flights
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and normally from the ground to the release altitude at intervals specified by the AETE Project
Officer. These data are used for ballistic wind corrections and the calculation of true airspeed.

7. Pretest preparations

A weight and balance check of large stores is always performed by AETE prior to flight testing to
ensure center of gravity location, weight, and moments of inertia are within the tolerances specified in
MIL-STD-1763. Smaller stores, such as Modular Practice Bombs (MPB's) and rockets, are not
checked. None of the measurements are entered into ballistic algorithms when comparing actual and
predicted trajectories. Prior to accuracy test flights, the gunsight is harmonized. If aircraft-mounted
cameras were to be used (normally they are not), they would be calibrated using a grid board prior to
the start of testing.

8. Are aircrews given any special procedures to follow during ballistics flight testing?

For ballistic validation flight tests conducted at AETE, the aircraft is flown at specified conditions
(dive angle, airspeed, height above target) and as long as it is in a fairly stabilized profile prior to
release, the test point is accepted. As AETE is not concerned with hitting a "target" on ballistic
missions, any stable release condition is acceptable. Prior to calculations by the AETE Project
Officer, the data are subjected to a normality test as all assumptions are based on having a normally
distributed population.

9. Describe your ballistic analysis and prediction toolskodes.

CF basic ballistics prediction tools are a six-degree-of-freedom (6DOF) computer program or a 2DOF
computer program. A 6DOF program is a full aerodynamic simulation allowing three translational and
three rotational degrees of freedom. A 2DOF program treats the body as a point mass with two
translational degrees of motion. This means that a 2DOF does not simulate any motion related to
forces due to angle of attack or the dynamic response of the body. However, even if a 6DOF program
provides a better simulation, it cannot be used to produce ballistics tables, since it needs too much
computer time and memory space. This is the reason why the CF uses 2DOF programs to simulate
store trajectories, but a 6DOF program can be used in certain cases to introduce launch factors into the
2DOF program. Launch factors are correction factors used to account for pitching moments at the
release of a rocket.

10. When stores do not hit their intended targets, what do you do about it?

AETE conducts flight testing for the CF and produces a report for NDHQ. These reports describe the
flight test procedures and contain results plus recommendations. Based on these reports, NDHQ
decides the actions to be taken in order to improve the results.

When flight tests are conducted to establish air weapon ballistic characteristics, AETE engineers do not
consider if the weapons bit the target. Once the weapon ballistic characteristics are determined and
introduced in its trajectory-predicting algorithm, failure of the weapon to fall within an acceptable
distance of the target will be investigated for pilot aiming and aircraft sensor inputs to the mission
computer.

11. Provide examples as to how ballistics data is provided to aircrew.

Ballistics data are provided to aircrew via the publication of manual ballistics tables in Aircraft
Operating Instructions (AOI's). As an example, for the CF-5, the AOI's contain manual rocket
ballistics tables which provide the aircrew the sight setting, rocket impact angle, and horizontal and
slant ranges. The tables cover a wide delivery envelope with release conditions varying from 0" to
60" dive angles and 360 to 520 KTAS.
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For "smart" aircraft like the CF-18, the information is contained as algorithms in the aircraft mission
computer and ballistic tables are used as a backup in case of a mission computer failure and for
training purposes only.

12. Planned improvements to improve ballistic methodology

The first and immediate improvement planned by the CF is the accuracy of CF-5 and CF-18 rocket
ballistics tables and codes. Also the CF has to update the CF-18 mission computer with the most
recent store physical and aerodynamic input data. It is planned to improve the 2DOF and 6DOF
computer programs currently in use in the CF by providing aircrew with more accurate wind
correction factors.

13. Particular problems in the area of ballistic analysis and testing

The main problem encountered by the CF was the absence of full-time personnel as air weapon
ballistics OPI. This delayed the normal evolution and development of a Canadian ballistics
methodology.

14. Once requirements are defined, how are ballistic flight test programs developed?

As discussed previously, NDHQ tasks AETE with a Project Directive which details the objectives of
the flight tests. Considering these directives, AETE develops the ballistic flight test program and test
matrix according to their resources and experience.

15. Are ballistics data ever gathered in conjunction with a store separation test program?

The CF often gathers ballistic data in conjunction with a store separation program. It was done for the
MK 82 bombs and for the CRV-7 rockets for the CF-5 aircraft. However, normally stores clearance
safe separation data have priority over ballistic data.

16. Clarify the role of the military and industry in ballistic analyses and flight testing.

In the CF, all the flight testing is performed by the military at AETE. With respect to the ballistic
analyses, all work is normally performed by the Department of National Defence (DND). However,
in some exceptional cases, industry performs ballistic analyses for the CF. As an example, Hunting
Engineering Ltd P E L ) has been contracted lately to produce BL-755 manual ballistic tables based on
flight test trials conducted by the CF. The reason for this contract award to industry was that the
BL-755 bomb is a two-phase weapon type and that the CF does not possess an accurate mathematical
model to predict impact points of BL-755 bomblets.

17. What portion, if any, of ballistics-related analysis and testing is classified?

Currently, computer programs to calculate stores trajectories, all the input data to run this program, as
well as manual ballistic tables are not classified. The only classified material on ballistic-related
analysis is the material which contain CEP results of actual live firinglrelease of stores. This material
is classified either CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET.

18. References

A general reference document on Canadian air weapon ballistics that we can recommend was
published by DREV in Canada under The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) and titled
Comuendium of Ballistic Table Methodolo&$. This compendium was written by Mr. B. Cheers and
Mr. J.F. Teague and could be found in file: 36212-003 under DREV Memorandum 2846/87, July
1987. Twenty copies of this compendium were sent to Dr. D. Daniel, AFATL Eglin AFB, U.S.
National Leader, WTP-2.
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AETE engineers have recently produced two technical memorandums to standardize air weapons
ballistic procedures within the CF organizations. Draft copies of these technical memorandums were
passed to 3246 Test Wing TYD Ballistics Branch on 13 September 1989 for information. The
following are the references of these technical memorandums:

a. AETE Technical Memorandum No. 595, A Procedure to Validate Rocket Ballistic Tables,

b. AETE Technical Memorandum No. 597, A Procedure to Estimate and Validate Weauon Acc-.
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RESPONSE FROM GERMANY

Preliminary Remark:
Attached please find excerpts of the GE Ammunition Assessment Manual "Bombs". These excerpts cover
all important aspects of bomb ballistics as viewed by the Meppen Engineering Center. The answers below
contain references to this document.

Answer 1
Not much can be said about the history of bomb ballistics in Germany before 1945 since only a few
documents are available and bomb ballistics is only a side issue in textbooks.

With the buildup of the German Federal Air Force and the introduction of U.S. weapon systems (F-84, F-
86), the ballistic documents of the USAF were adopted too. Our efforts did not begin before the
procurement of conventional weapons for the weapon systems F-104G and Fiat G-91 in the late sixties.
The responsibility for bomb ballistics was assigned to Engineering Center 91 (E-91) which was also
responsible for the testing of air-dropped ammunition. Since then, release clearance trials have been
carried out on the site of E-91 using aircraft of Engineering Center 61 (Manching) and of the Federal Air
Force.

In the field of bomb ballistics, use could be made of ballistics for artillery, anti-tank and air defense guns
where similar trajectory models are used. Additional information in evaluation methods and model
philosophy became available during development and procurement of Cluster Bomb BL-755 (produced by
Hunting).

The evaluation methods were modified and refined during the years in order to achieve the highest possible
precision using simple ballistic models.

Answers 2 and 3
Since the Federal Air Force has so far not commissioned the development of any new bombs, such as the
MK 82 type, no specific ballistic accuracy requirements have been formulated. So far, the military have
only established accuracy requirements for the overall system (sensors, ballistics, and aircrew). For level
or dive bombing, the system accuracy is given as relative accuracy in milliradians; for loft deliveries, it is
given in meters or feet.

The ballistic accuracy or the ballistic dispersion is essentially determined by the release behavior and the
free-flight phase. For multistage systems barachute-retarded bombs, cluster bombs, runway-denial
bombs), the time tolerances for the actuation of the various stages must also be considered. It is the task
of the ballistics engineer to develop suitable ballistic models which describe the release behavior and the
free-flight phase as accurately as possible over the entire operational range. The ballistic model can then
be used to establish the ballistic dispersion which will be either accepted or rejected. Importance should be
attached to the requirement that the ballistic dispersion and the errors of the sensors and of the aircrew are
reasonably balanced.

The number of releases is often determined by the procurement cost for inert bomb bodies, since the
dropping of live ammunition is prohibited in Meppen. As an example, no more than 25 bombs are
available for trials with a five-bomb configuration vornado), which must cover everything, even the
determination of minimum ripple intervals. Of course, this is not enough for a reliable statistical
statement. On the other hand, training bombs are available in sufficient numbers.
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Answer 4

The store configurations to be tested are specified by the military. Normally there is a standard test
configuration for each bomb type. Experience shows that it is not necessary to test all configurations,
particularly since the aircraft computers often use only one ballistic model for one bomb type. The
airspeed is the main release parameter which is subject to variation. Release angle and altitude are
selected from a tactical point of view. Because of the possible different release behavior, separate trials
are conducted for loft deliveries.

Answer 5

The Federal Air Force currently flies three weapon systems:

F4F Phantom - automatic release possible

Alpha Jet - CCIP mode
PA-200 Tornado - automatic release standard

High-explosive bomb MK 82 with retarder system BSU 49 B is to be adapted to all weapon systems.
Delivery trials using runway denial bombs BAP 100 and Durandal have been completed for the F-4F.
Furthermore, trials with modified training bombs are being conducted and/or prepared.

Answer 6

Only ground measurement equipment is used in Meppen for the determination of ballistic characteristics.
The airborne instrumentation (cameras) is used primarily to record event times like bomb release,
actuation of the fins, and opening of the parachute. A telemetry system is not used with bomb delivery
trials.

Reference:
Ammunition Assessment Manual "Bombs"
Para. 2.7.1 Measurement Requirements during Release Trials

Answer 7

Determination of the mass properties and of the bomb center of gravity falls under pre-flight test
preparations. In addition, colored markers are added to establish the number of revolutions and to ensure
identification during ripple releases. Calibration of the airborne instrumentation is performed by
Engineering Center 61 (WTD 61) in Manching.

Answer 8

There are no special procedures for aircrews. They are responsible for meeting the release requirements.

Answer 9

The ballistic analysis tools used in Meppen have proved valuable for the determination of ballistic
characteristics. A detailed description is given in paragraph 2.7 "Determination of Ballistic
Characteristics" of the Ammunition Assessment Manual "Bombs". Under the heading of "Preliminary
Remarks", this paragraph also contains a comment on the prediction tools used by industry.

Answer 10

We are often confronted with this problem. System engineers and aircrews often tend to blame delivery
errors on the ballistics engineers. Of course, miss distances caused by faulty ballistics are possible. For
example, one of our weapon systems experienced problems with training bomb BDU 33, the
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characteristics of which were determined in level deliveries and the bomb subsequently used for loft
deliveries. Such errors can only be found if the complete system is investigated, and the sensor errors and
ballistics errors are dealt with separately.

Some of the miss distances can be explained with the poor state of the bombs themselves:

We found, for example, sand and wood debris instead of the specified filling in inert bombs MK 82, used
for system tests. Due to the changed mass distribution, these bombs showed a different pendulum
behavior which, in turn, led to higher drag. Short throws were the result. Great delivery errors, in
particular with training bombs, are often caused by bent fins.

Despite the availability of support in the form of sensors and onboard computers, the aircrews have
produced the greatest errors with in-service weapon systems. Only thorough training will remedy this
problem.

Answer 11
The ballistic data are handed over to the aircrew in the form of ballistic tables, the format of which
essentially corresponds to that of the USAF. The aircrews have indirect access to the ballistic data via the
onboard computer.

Answer 12
WTD 91 is planning to improve, in the coming years, its external ballistic measurement capabilities
(cinetheodolites) which will afford greater flexibility for the planning of bomb delivery trials. An upgrade
of the analysis tools is intended. The use of prediction models will be reserved for industry.

Answer 13

Unfortunately, very few persons in West Europe are studying bomb ballistics. However, a number of
model and analysis philosophies do exist. It would be useful if these model philosophies were discussed
and standardized by a working group as has already been achieved within NATO for artillery ballistics.

Answer 14

The flight test program (test matrix) is normally prepared by a ballistics expert and a trials engineer. The
release conditions are determined by the tactical requirements, although they should, at the same time,
cover the entire release area.

Since the number of actual releases is often very small, a lot of experience is needed to select the proper
trials conditions. A formal procedure does not exist.

Answer 15

The ballistic trials will, whenever possible, be conducted together with release trials for cost reasons.

Answer 16

Due to the organization of the GE MOD Armament Division, the conduct and analysis of the trials belong
to the responsibilities of civilian personnel. The GE Air Force provides the jump-off base. Normally,
industry is not involved in the analysis of test data.

Answer 17

Ballistic data are only classified "VS-Nur fur den Dienstgebrauch" (equivalent US Restricted).
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Answer 18

1. B W B - W M I V 6
Handbuch der Munitionsbewertung "Bomben" 1988
(Ammunition Assessment Manual "Bombs")

2. Ballistisches Institut der Luftkriegsakademie Formelsammlung zur Bombenballistik 1941

(Ballistic Institute of the Air Warfare Academy, Collection of Formulas for Bomb Ballistics)

3. WTD 91 Arbeitsbereich Flugbahnvermessung un Telemetrie Aufgabenbeschreibung und

! Gerateausstattung 1985
(WTD 91 Trajectory Tracking and Telemetry Division Terms of Reference and Equipment Allotment)

H. Nie
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RESPONSE FROM FRANCE

1. Historical Overview

1.1 How We Did

a. Theoretical calculation of Cbx = s.cx as a function of Mach number, from which tables are derived

b. Implementation of these tables in the weapon delivery system

c. Test deliveries providing experimental ballistics (on paper)

d. Derivation of experimental Cbx values from these trajectories

e. Modification of the theoretical calculus (Le., return to a)

No corrections were made for delivery conditions nor for aircraft aerodynamic field-induced movements of
store. Hence, this led to a "mean Cbx" adapted to a single aircraft.

1.2 How We Do
a. and b. as in 1.1
c. Wind tunnel tests for safe separation tests

Presently only store behavior respective to aircraft is analyzed. These tests are meant to
demonstrate that the delivery process will cause no harm to the aircraft.

Since Reynolds numbers of such wind tunnel tests which are used are not proper, modeling of the
store behavior in the aircraft aerodynamic field is not derived.

d. Tests deliveries with cinetheodolite-derived trajectories

e. Introduction of actual deliveries conditions as initial values of a store's ballistic model

Elaboration of an experimental Cbx by matching the model-derived trajectory with the measured
one, which has been corrected for wind effect.

1.3 How We Should Do in the Future

Add in that process a modeling of the initial release phase using instrumented stores (sensors and solid
state recording devices).

2. Establishment of Ballistic Accuracy Requirements

a. The military asks the DGA for a store that could cause a desired damage level to a defined target
(expression of a need).

b. The DGA calls the industry for proposals on that base.

c. Development of store(s) is then conducted. (Industry may propose a store to be developed without
being called for. Then the military will be asked if they are interested.)

d. Ground tests of store then shall establish its effectiveness pattern. This will confirm or modify
weapon delivery system accuracy requirements.
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e. The store is flight tested on testbed aircraft. It is then "qualified," that is, it reputedly fills the
development objectives.

f. The store is then adapted to the mission aircraft through two types of flights:
- separation tests usually flown over sea in safe conditions
- delivery tests to demonstrate the accuracy of the overall system.
Criteria are:
-~ uoint versus actually designed uoint (CEP) for ballistics calculation certification
- imoact
- impact point with respec; to that point which .the crew tried to designate for overall system
evaluation.

After the development phase, a "government evaluation" takes place. A minimum of 3 to 10 stores are
then delivered, depending on the delivery envelope and the store's cost.

Afterward, a military experimentation will he conducted by "CEAM" (Centre d'Exp6rimentations

Aeriennes Militaire, a service of French Air forces), the result of which are part of the final statistic.

4. Who specifies aircraft/store configuration to be tested?

a. The military list their wishes with respect to:

- store configurations
- flight envelope
- separation envelope (including jettison)
- delivery conditions envelope
b. Calculations and wind tunnel tests allow for captive flight envelope projection.

c. Wind tunnel tests provide data to assedadapt delivery items desired characteristics. Limitations to
the separation envelope may he derived.

From these tests, generally held by industry in government-owned facilities, flight test programs are
derived:

- for captive flight envelope demonstration

- for separation envelope demonstration.
These programs, generally proposed by industry, are discussed with the government test
organization.

5. Aircraft and Stores foir Which Ballistic Analysis is Used:

5.1 Type of Aircraft presently flight tested with stores:

- Jaguar (delivery computer-electro-optical HUD)

- F1 CR (delivery computer-electronic HUD)
- MIRAGE 2000 (delivery computer-electronic HUD)
5.2 Stores currently adapted to aircraft:

- 250-kg bombs (clean and decelerated)

- BAT 120 - BAP 100
- MATRA BELUGA
- MATRA DURANDAL
- US MK 20 and CBU-58 Bombs
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6. Test Facilities Needed to Flight Test Ballistics:

6.1 Ground Facilities:

- Radars for real-time guidance of aircraft (typical accuracy = 15m)

- Cinetheodolites (film 35" focal 1000 to 2000mm - 5 to 10 framedsecond. Accuracy: lm at 5-km
range; 5m at 10-km range)
- Film cameras (100 framedsecond) for sequence identification
- TV camera for safety monitoring of flights
- Film cameras (200 to 400 frameshecond) to determine store dive-angle at impact point of accelerated
stores
- Trajectories are calculated by three-point smoothing of cinetheodolite results
6.2 Onboard Instrumentation:

- Release cameras (6 to 10 typically): 50 to 100 framedsecond; film 16"; focal: lOmm

- HUD color camera: 16 framedsecond; film 16mm; focal: 50"
- Acquisition and recording devices to collect flight conditions at release point, and inputs and outputs
of any weapon delivery system device involved (radar, baro altitude, INU)
- Time base, synchronizing every instrumentation device
7. Re-Test Preparation:

7.1 Store Preparation:

- Determination of mass and center of gravity position

- Inertial momentum for guided weapons only
- Use of "never released before" stores

7.2 Aircraft

- Boresighting of:
0 weapon delivery system sensors
cameras
- Calibration of instrumentation
- Identification of delays (system instrumentation)
8. Test Procedures:

Special procedures are usually given to:

- achieve the desired test conditions as closely as possible

- locate the release point at the optimal point with respect to:
0 ground instrumentation accuracy
0 test range safety regulation

Hence, crew actions may occur in unusual (or nonoperational) sequences, using special commands to cope
with the testbed aircraft.

10. Errors:
Error sources accounted for:
- pilot's designation
- sensors
- algorithms (HUD reticles accuracy - ballistics simplified calculation)
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- wind variation between release point and target

- store manufacturing process deviations
- atmosphere deviation from that used in the computers
11. Improvements Forecast:

- Use wind tunnel tests to identify store changes influence from one stage of development to another
- Collect more accurate TSPI
- Modelize the initial release movements of store influence on its future trajectory
- Improve manufacturing processes to minimize store deviation from standard
- Develop realtime ground aids to assist the test engineer in his decision process during flights.

(12-13. NO R c s P o ~ ~ ~ ~ )

14. Development of Test Programs:

- Industry is generally responsible for the development programs and associated tests.
- Official testing organization is responsible for certification programs and associated tests. These
combine analytical and operational type tests.

15. Is ballistics data ever gathered in conjunction with a store separation test program?

- Usually not, but it should be.

16. Generally the industry is responsible for the development of the store.

Government services are to control security aspects, performances, and effectiveness of the store. This
work is conducted throughout the development phase, and after it has been completed.

17. Classification:

Store effectiveness characteristics and weapon system measured accuracy and its influence on future use by
the military are CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET depending on the store and/or the mission.

(18. No Response)
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L'INE BOICHOT
 APPENDIX B

BALLISTICS REQUIREMENTS

Department of the Air Force

Headquarters 3246th Test Wing (AFSC)
Office for Aircraft Compatibility
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida 32542-5000
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This Operating Instruction covers test requirements, data reduction requirements, and factors to be
considered in a comprehensive ballistic and Operational Flight Program (OFP) deliver accuracy analysis
for unguided non-self-propelled weapons.

1. Test Requirements

a. For a standard ballistic lest, a minimum of three weapons is required for each test point. Normally,
one-third of the weapons will be dropped at the maximum speed the aircraft is capable of flying, one-
third dropped at the minimum speed, and one-third in the medium range. Normally, weapons will be
dropped in level, dive, and loft deliveries. Aircraft loadouts and delivery conditions will be optimized
for the user's go-to-war configurations. Consideration should be given to "footprinting" a particular
aircraft with inexpensive munitions (e&, BDU-33/B) prior to testing with expensive or scarce assets.
For each pass, the following data will be provided:

(1)Aircraft Data

(a) Aircraft type

@)Aircraft tail number
(c) Complete aircraft loadout
(d) Aircraftlrack station associated with each pass for weapons that were released
(e) Which OFP block software update is incorporated in the aircraft

(2)Weapon Data

(a) Weapon type (include if item is live or inert)

@)Weapon weight associated with each pass for weapons that were released
(c) Center of gravity (CG) and moments of inertia
(d)Fuze type (if applicable)
(e) Fuze setting (time or altitude, and RPM if applicable)

(3) Rack data

(a) Rack type

@)Ejection cartridges and orifice settings

b. An Operation Flight Program (OFP) delivery accuracy analysis requires, in addition to the data listed
above, avionicslsensor data and the pipper location associated with each pass.

(1)Aircraft Sensor Data (Actual Release Parameters from HUD, etc.)

(a) Prior to starting a series of computer-aided releases, the aircraft avionics and weapon delivery
system should be recalibrated. A white vertical 16-foot by 16-foot panel with a black cross
should be erected as a target marker to facilitate early target acquisition during level and low-
angle deliveries (this is also an aid in data reduction). Stabilized flight conditions are to be
maintained on each weapon delivery run. Prescribed tolerances for planned release conditions
are k50 KTAS, + l o degrees climh/dive, +500 feet MSL, and + O S g's. While pipper
placement on the target during bomb release run-in is important, execution of an abrupt
maneuver at the last instant before weapon release in an attempt to keep the pipper on the target
is to be avoided. Collect the following data from aircraft instruments at the moment of release:

1. Airspeed (KTAS/Mach number)

2. Flight Path Angle (deg)
3. Altitude AGL/MSL (ft)
4. Slant Range to Aim Point (ft)
5. Load Factor (g's)
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6. Dynamic Pressure (Q)

7. Winds at Altitude from INS
8. Delivery Mode
9. Pilot's Inputs to OFP

(2)Pipper (Release)/Weapon (Impact) Location

(a)To facilitate assessment of aim point error from the optical sight camera film or video tape,
distinguishable markings surrounding the target are required. The range markings should be
concentric about the target center at ro-foot intervals to a distance of 200 feet. Using these
procedures, the following distances should then be determined (uprange/short distance is negative,
downrange/long distance is positive, cross-range right is positive, and cross-range left is negative):
Range Cross-Range
Weapon Impact Relative to Target (ft) ___ __
Aim Point pipper) Relative to Target (ft) __ __
Weapon Impact Relative to Aim Point (ft) ~ __

2. Data RecordinglCollection Requirements:

a. The aircraft and weapon will be tracked by a minimum of three cinetheodolite cameras operating at a
nominal 30 frames per second with 3.5" black and white film and Integrated Range Instrumentation
Group (IRIG) time to provide the following coverage:

(1) Of the aircraft from a minimum of 3 seconds prior to release to as long after release as the aircraft
appears on the film of the cinetheodolites tracking the weapon.

(2)Of the weapon from release to either cluster opening, fuze function, or impact (whichever is
longest).

b. Time of weapon separation from the aircraft will be determined as available from the following data
sources:

(1)By means of instrumentation installed on racks which either transmit the data to be recorded by
ground telemetry systems or from a magnetic tape recorder on the rack with IRIG time with 1-
millisecond accuracy.

(2)By medium-speed tracking cameras on 35" black and white film operating at a nominal 96
frames per second with IRIG time with 5-millisecond accuracy.

(3)By the tracking cinetheodolite cameras to within ,0167-second accuracy. Note: This accuracy is
acceptable for ballistic computations only when weapons are released at velocities less than or equal
to 300 knots.

c. Any special event times such as fin opening, chute deployment, chute separation, weapon functioning,
and impact will be recorded by the instrumentation described in subparagraph Z.b.(l),(Z), or (3) above
to accuracies as stated. Thirty-five-millimeter film will be used to record these data. Color film will
be used to record events where color contrast is an occurrence. Otherwise, black and white film will
be used. For events requiring timing accuracies higher than those specified above (i.e., 1-millisecond
or greater), 16" cameras operating at nominal frame rates of 1000 frames per second or greater and
R I G time may be required.

d. Impact times, velocities, and angles for submunitions or a weapon too small to be tracked by
cinetheodolites or the medium-speed tracking cameras described above will be determined by CZR-1,
fixed Milliken, or similar grid cameras with black and white film and IRIG time.
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e. Weapon fuze function heights will be determined as follows:

(1)For function heights from approximately 500 to 4000 feet, to *lo-foot accuracy, using
cinetheodolites and medium-speed tracking cameras (nominal 96 frames per second frame rate) and
3Smm black and white film with IRIG time, the function point will be projected vertically to the
range surface. This method is used primarily for determining the fuze function heights of clusters
or submunition dispensers.

(2)For function heights from approximately 10 to 50 feet, to 1-foot accuracy, using cinetheodolites
and 16mm high-speed cameras (nominal 1000 frames per second frame rate, black and white film
and IRIG time), and a flag of known height at the impact points to be photographed post-impact by
the cinetheodolites.

(3)For function heights of 4 inches to 10 feet, to accuracies of h3-6 inches using 16mm film, high-
speed cameras operating at 2000 to 4000 frames per second with color film, and IRIG time. These
cameras are mounted on mounts modified to enable these cameras to track in azimuth only.
Suitable lenses will be used as necessary to provide the required vertical weapon terminal trajectory
coverage. Up to two 2-foot x 8-foot x %-inch colored fuze function height reference panels are
located post-impact at the impact points and photographed by these cameras.

(4)If the fuze function is not clearly apparent on the film (that is, as apparent as in the case of a
dispenser), the weapon must be modified to provide a clear manifestation of the fuze function,
either by the installation of instrumentation such as strobe lights for camera frame rates of over 400
frames per second, or by fuzes with boosters installed in weapons drilled to permit the fuze function
explosion products to be evidenced outside the weapon, or the equivalent.

f. Weapon or submunition impact and scoring data:

(1)Ground impacts of large weapons such as the MK 82 will be scored (Cor example, with
Photo-T/flag) using the near edge of the weapon crater and polar coordinates oriented to the target
and to the flightline downrange of the target.

(2)For submunitions and other weapons released on grids (separated by item types or dispensers),
measurements along track and cross track 1 foot should be oriented to the target to provide the
following pattern data:

(a) Standard grid coordinate scoring will be used for either the submunition initial or final impact
locations. Scoring by initial impact locations may not be practical if the submunitions do not
possess sufficient velocity to dent the grid surface.
@)Number of items located
(c) Number of duds

3. Meteorological Data Requirements

a. Atmospheric properties (temperature, density) associated with corresponding altitude will be obtained
from standard base upper air (Rawinsonde) observations (taken, ideally, within 30 minutes of mission).
Temperature can be measured in either degrees Centigrade, degrees Fahrenheit, degrees Rankin, or
sonic velocity input. Density can be measured in grams per cubic meter, pounds per cubic foot, or
slugs per cubic foot.

b. Wind direction and velocity data (measured in knots or feet per second) associated with corresponding
altitude will be obtained by tracking a pilot balloon (pibal) within 30 minutes of weapon release time in
the vicinity of the release area. These data are required for altitudes from the earth's surface to 3000
feet AGL at 500-foot increments, and from 3000 feet to 1000 feet above the release altitude at 1000-
foot increments. The pibal may be tracked either by theodolites operating under standard conditions or
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range cinetheodolites. The cinetheodolites will operate at a nominal 10 frames per second, recording
IRIG time in bursts of approximately 5 seconds each at %-minute intervals. This data will be
incorporated into the final reduced ballistics data printouts.

4. Data Reduction Requirements

a. Cinetheodolite data will be smoothed by fitting a moving arc polynomial to the Cartesian coordinates.
Typically, a 31-point quadratic equation is used to fit most standard weapon drops. If, however, a
weapon bas rocket motors firing or any other anomalies that make it difficult to track, a cubic equation
is used to obtain the smoothed data.

b. Smoothed cinetheodolite data will be reduced to generate time-space-position-information VSPI). The

TSPI will be printed out at 0.2-second intervals and will correspond to the following format:

(1) Title Page

PROJECT NUMBER DATE (dd/mm/yy) MISSION NUMBER AIC OR ITEM

LINE2
# OF POINTS SMOOTHED DEG OF POLYNOMIAL USED IN SMOOTHING THE DATA

LINE3
OUTPUT ORIGIN LATITUDE LONGITUDE H T OF TGT FLIGHTLINE

RELEASE TIME (hh/"/ss) SOURCE OF RELEASE TIME

(dc UHF tone, cameras, cine-t, or a/c rack instrumentation)

GAMMA

(2) Data Pages

PAGE 1
ZULU TIME SINCE POSITION VELOCITY HEIGHT OF
TIME RELEASE COORDINATES COORDINATES TARGET ABOVE
(X,Y,Z) WX,VY,VZ) MSL

TIME TOTAL TOTAL HORlZ VELOC VERT VELOC WIND HT OF

SINCE VELOC VELOC IN WITH RESPECT WITH RESPECT VELOC TARGET
REL AIR MASS TO AIR MASS TO AIR MASS COMPNTS ABOVE
MSL

PAGE 3
TIME NORMAL ACCEL DUE MACH KLI DIVE HEIGHT O F
SINCE ACCEL TO DRAG ANGLE TARGET ABOVE
REL MSL

TIME HORIZ VERT CROSSRANGE HEADING DYNAMIC HT O F

SINCE ACCEL ACCEL ACCEL FROM NORTH PRESSURE TARGET
REL (DE@ ABOVE MSL
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a. In the reduction of smoothed data:

(1)The line of flight will be aircraft track at release.

(2)The origin of the coordinate system will be the target.

b. TSPI printouts will be hand-annotated by the organization in charge of the reduction of the
cinetheodolite data to indicate events such as fin opening, chute start out and chute completely open,
fuze arm and function, etc.

c. Impact data will be collected as required.

(1)Plots of impact data will specify the location of each weapon (or submunition) for each release.
Plots will be annotated with line-of-flight, release point, and other pertinent parameters.

(a) The mean point of impact (MPI) will be computed either per release for inultiple releases or
cumulatively for sequential passes as specified.

@)The location of each weapon or submunition will be tabulated with respect to the established
coordinate system. The origin of the coordinate system will be the target.

(c) For submunitions, impact pattern statistical data (CEP, sigma X, sigma Y) and other parameters
will be computed.

d. TSPI will be provided on both magnetic tape and hardcopy outputs as specified in the Test
Directive.
 APPENDIX C

FUTURE TRENDS IN BALLISTIC TESTING AND ANALYSES

Office for Aircraft Compatibility

3246th Test Wing/TY
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida 32542-5000

January 1990
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Three-Degree-of-Freedom (3DOF) Ballistic Improvements

The Office for Aircraft Compatibility (TY)will he using two computer programs for developing store
separation effects and freestream drag coefficients for use in 3DOF trajectory computations. One program
will be used to determine the store freestream drag coefficient (that is, when the store is no longer under the
aerodynamic influence of the aircraft), K,, as a function of Mach number. The other program will
determine the store drag, lift, and side force coefficients during the separation phase of the trajectory (that
is, when the store is under the aerodynamic influence of the aircraft). These programs, combined with a
semi-automated data file generator, will significantly reduce the man-hours required to develop 3DOF
ballistics data and, more importantly, will increase data accuracy.

Freestream K,

The computer program which determines freestream store drag is called K, Estimation Method (KDEM).
The program uses an optimal estimation method where the objective or cost function is to minimize the sum
of the squares of the residuals between measured and modeled trajectory parameters. Since the 3DOF model
is nonlinear with respect to K, (a function of Mach), a linearization about an initial estimate for K, is made
and an iterative procedure is used to determine a converged estimate of K,. The details of this mefhod are
developed below.

TSPI measurements are coordinates of position and velocity as a function of time. For N measurements or
time intervals, a measurement vector, Z, is developed such that

z = [X Y z x Y a' (1)

The position measurements are X, Y, and Z and the velocity measurements are X, Y , and 2.The
measurement vector is a column matrix where each coordinate measurement is expanded for N
measurements. Thus,

The Z matrix is a 6N x 1 (6N rows and 1 column) matrix.

The 3DOF equations of motion are used to compute corresponding values for each measurement. These
differential equations for the freestream portion of the trajectory are (Coriolis and centripetal acceleration
are omitted here but not in KDEM).
f = -KD p f f vx-
m
Y = -KD p d2V -Y (3)
m
Z = -KD p &vzm +

where

p = air density
V = total velocity
d = weapon diameter
m = weapon mass
g = gravity a.cceleration.
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If the correct KD is used and the measurements are perfect, then

2 = H(KJ (4)

where H(K,) is a 6N x 1 matrix representing the 3DOF model output for each measurement. However, the
correct K, is not known and the measurements are not perfect. Thus,

Z = H(KJ + E (5)

where E is a column vector of errors (6N x 1) presenting measurement errors and K, errors.

The objective is to minimize the sum of the squares of the residuals (SSR) which is

If the model was linear with respect to K,, linear least squares could be used to find the value of which
minimizes SSR. In the linear case, SSR is minimized by taking the derivative of SSR with respect to K,,
setting it to zero, and solving for KD. The result would be, in matrix form,

KD = (HT H)-' H T Z (7)

where H replaces the H(K,) notation. The model may be linearized by a Taylor series expansion about an
initial estimate of K, which is noted as k,. Thus,

a H(KJ
z = z(2D)+ (KD - KJ + higher order ferms + E
a KD
If the estimate, gD,is sufficiently close to K,, the higher order terms may be dropped. The linearized form
of equation (5) becomes

In the above equation the difference between K, and g, may be determined by developing a form of
equation (7) since equation (9) is now linear with respect to the difference or delta K,. Note that the
difference between the measured value and the computed value using the estimate has been formed on the
left-hand side of equation (9). This difference or residual is treated as the measurement in equation (7).
Thus,

Equation (10) provides an estimate of the change in E, that has minimized (linear least squares) the
residuals. When A$, is added to $, a better estimate of $, is obtained. The process of determining
updated estimates may continue until further deltas would be less than an arbitrary small value.
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K, is a function of Mach number and cannot be assumed constant for any trajectory. For simplicity, assume
that K, may be modeled as
KD = C, + C, M + C, M 2 (11)

where M is the Mach number. The estimation process now is to estimate the constants in the above
polynomial which will minimize SSR. Equation (9) becomes

Where el,e2, e3
and e
are estimates of the polynomial coefficients and is the vector of these estimates.
From equation (ll), the differences or delta coefficient changes may be determined sim.ilar to equation (9)
as

where i = 1, 2, and 3. These equations provide improved estimates over the initial estimates and iterations
may continue until an arbitrary small delta in each coefficient is obtained.

The solution of equation (13) is dependent on the proper development of the sensitivity matrix, a H/a Ci.
The elements of the sensitivity matrix are the partial derivatives of the 3DOF output with respect to the
coefficients or parameters being estimated. For the second-order polynomial containing three coefficients,
the matrix is
ax,,_
_ axn_ax,
ac, ac, ac,
. . . . *
ar, ar,,ar,
ac, ac, ac,
.....
az, az, az,
---
ac, ac, ac3
. . . . .
ax,, ax,, axn
---
ac, ac, ac,
. . . . .
af,,
_-- ay,, af,,
ac, ac, ac,
.....
ai, ai, ai,
---
ac, ac, ac,
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The dashed line denotes a partition where each partition contains n rows or a row for each measurement.
TSPI measurements are provided as a function of time. The time intervals between measurements are
nominally 0.1 or 0.2 seconds. It is computationally convenient if the intervals are constant for all
measurements being processed. These intervals must be known in advance because the elements in the
sensitivity matrix must be determined and synchronized with the TSPI.

The elements of the sensitivity matrix are determined from a set of differential equations developed by taking
the partial derivative of each equation of motion with respect to each coefficient. For the stated example,
nine differential equations are developed. For example, both the axla C, and the ax/a C, are obtained from
the equation

This equation may be further expanded since

and

Since the partial derivatives are continuous, the order of the differentiation may be reversed so that

and

Thus, equation (15) may be expressed as a second-order differential equation in the variable a x/a C,. All
nine differential equations developed in this manner are integrated along with the equations of motion to
produce the elements of 8 H/a C and the elements of Z(c).

Convergence of the iterative process is dependent on the accuracy of the initial estimate of the parameters
or coefficients to be estimated. Too large an error in the initial estimate will cause divergence because the
higher order terms in the series expansions could become significant. To eliminate novice error in providing
an initial guess for the coefficients in the drag model, a computed mean drag is derived from TSPI. This
mean drag estimate is further refined by repeated trajectory calculations using

C1(0 = C1(1-l) +
x - x (I-1)
ax
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where I denotes the iteration step, X is the measured range, and x is the 3DOF model output. In usually
fewer than four iterations, the range error (X - x) is less than 50 feet. An accurate initial estimate for C,
is obtained. The other coefficients, which add the effect of Mach number variation, are set to zero. This
initialization scheme produces convergence of the K, procedure for both low-drag and high-drag bombs.

Another problem that the computer program solves for the user is that it selects a K, model based on the
Mach number level and variation for each drop. The selections include a first-order polynomial for low
Mach variation, a third-order polynomial for large variations in the transonic region, and the following
model for all subsonic conditions with some Mach variation during the drop.

KD = c, +
2-kP

In the above equation, M is Mach number. The TSPI for the bomb drop is processed first to determine these
variations.

The coefficients for the K, versus Mach model or equation is determined to less than a 3-percent change in
their value from one iteration to the next. This level of convergence is achieved, in most cases, in fewer
than three iterations. The derived model is only valid for that particular drop. It is used only to predict the
K, for a specific Mach number, which must be within the Mach interval of the test data. Similar data from
other drops in the same Mach region may have significantly different coefficients but predict about the same
K,. For a small interval (k 0.005) about a given Mach number, K, predictions are made using the
equations developed from drops that have the given Mach in its Mach variation range. These Mach number
"bins" may have KD values from several drops. The mean KD for each Mach bin is the estimate of the K,
for that Mach number.

These K, values are plotted in Figure C-1 for three different bombs. Note that two bombs have the same
shape but different physical properties. The computer program determined that, although the shape is the
same for both bombs, the 3DOF ballistics are slightly different. The KD curves labeled as STDTAPE are
the data approved for use by the Air Force and represent the results from a large number of test drops. It
is used as a standard to validate the computer program.

Separation Effects

A computer program called Separation Effects Estimation Method (SEEM) uses similar techniques to those
developed in KDEM to determine the drag, lift, and side force coefficients to predict the bomb trajectory
while the bomb is under the influence of the aircraft's flowfield. The 3DOF equations are written to include
these forces. The equations are

where
C, = drag coeficient = X/n K,
Cs = side force coefficient
C, = lift coefficient
y = velocity vector pitch angle
= velocity vector heading or yaw angle.
 FREESTREAM DRAG COEFFICIENT, KD
0 0 0 0
0 > iQ L4
0 0 0
00
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
+ ' l l l l l l ' l l ' l l l l r l l
VlJ

0
in
>
0

;T,
O
0J

0 X

X
x
0

X
X
x
x

L X
X

L-3
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The forces are illustrated in Figure C-2. These equations are written in the wind axis system. The same
equations in the earth's axis system are

i = Kb (CDi+ C, Vn) + g

where
-xp V d L
Kb =
8m
v, =

Note that when the lift coefficient (CJ and the side force coefficient (C,) are zero, these equations reduce
to the freestream equations given in equation set (3).

Force coefficient variations during the separation phase are due largely to the angular motion of the weapon.
Small changes in weapon total yaw angle induce large changes in the force coefficients. The yawing motion
of the weapon is characterized as a damped oscillation which seems to have been initiated by forces in
addition to the ejection mechanism forces. The weapon usually yaws to its maximum amplitude within the
first half cycle which is characteristic of damped oscillation.

If damped harmonic motion represents the angular motion of the weapon, tlie variation in forces proportional
to the yaw (angle of attack and sideslip) should also exhibit the same nature. The variation in any general
force coefficient, C,, should be characterized by the differential equation for damped harmonic motion which
is

CF + K, 6, + & C, .= F(t) (24)

where K, acts as a damping coefficient and & acts as a restoring force coefficient. The term on the right-
hand side represents an external influence such as the induced flow about the aircraft. The constants should
be related to the physical and aerodynamic properties of the weapon. The form and value of the influence
term representing separation effects should be dependent on aircraWweapon configuration and the release
conditions. This term as well as the constants could be estimated from TSPI if the data were accurate
enough to observe the short duration effect of the forces on displacing the weapon. Such an approach would
require TSPI accuracy of less than an inch at time intervals less than 5 milliseconds apart.

Figure C-3 represents a possible yaw angle time history curve in the upper window. The lower window
represents the corresponding variation in drag coefficient, C., Note that the minimum C, occurs when the
yaw angle is zero. A curve connecting the minimum values is actually a curve for the zero-yaw drag
coefficient. Since this coefficient does not vary with time, the variation seen is a reflection of Mach number
variation with time. The maximum C, value occurs at maximum absolute yaw angle. Thus, the time
between consecutive maximums gives the half period of oscillation which provides additional information
on the aerodynamic nature of the weapon. Since state-of-the-art TSPI accuracy is not adequate to implement
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‘W

W
jw A

kW

V = VELOCITY
L = L I F T FORCE
D = DRAG
S = SIDE FORCE
W = WEIGHT

C-2. Wind Axes Force System

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0.8 -
PROBABLE

0.6 -
n
0
0.4 -

0.2 -

-0 l I 1 7-
0 I 2 3
TIME (SEC)

C-3. Typical Yaw Angle and Drag Coeffideint Time

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such a force coefficient model, several alternate models were investigated. The following model seems to
represent the mean C, as a function of time 0.

c, = c, +
c,
__
1 + T

This equation form is also applicable to lift (C,) and side (C,) force coefficients. Figure C-4 illustrates a
possible angle-of-attack time history for an undamped and a damped motion. If the motion is undamped,
the net lift force sums to zero since the lift force, unlike drag, is equally positive and negative. For the
damped motion, the net lift does not sum to zero because the half yaw cycle produces so much lift,
regardless of the direction, that the summation is biased in that direction. The effect of the lift and side force
models is to bias the forces in the proper direction. The bias is initially large and decays to near zero in 2
to 3 seconds after release. This type of model gives a smooth transition to freestream motion. Thus,

c, = c, + __c4
1 + T

c, = c, + - C6
l + T

The coefficients, C, through C,, become the parameters or constants to be estimated so that the computed
trajectory closely matches the TSPI trajectory.

The measurement vector for determining these coefficients is

z =[v$elT
which is derived from the measurements of x, y, and z. The expanded sensitivity matrix is

Initial estimates for C,, C,, and C5 are obtained by solving for C,, C,, and C, (22) and using average values
of V, $, and 0 from the TSPI. Initial estimates for &, C,, and C, are set to zero. These initial estimates
are sufficiently accurate to assure convergence of the estimation process.

The set of coefficients, C, through C,, serve only to predict the drag, lift, and side force coefficients for a
given bomb drop. Bomb-to-bomb variations and release variations will produce significantly different
coefficient values. An analysis of the coefficients derived from approximately 50 CBU-58 bombs dropped
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ANGLE O F ATTACK AND CL VERSUl3 T I M E

1 2 3 4

TIME ( S E C )

C-4. Typical Damped and Undamped Angle of Attack Time Histories and the Effect on Lift
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from an F-16 aircraft exhibited a strong correlation between the force coefficients initial values at time equal
to zero and the release Mach number and the release angle of attack. At approximately 3 seconds time of
flight, the correlation with angle of attack was weak, but the force coefficients strongly correlated with
expected freestream values.

The following equations provide the initial force coefficient values

,c = c, + c,
c, = c, + c,
c,, = c, + C6

The subscript "0" denotes initial values. The initial values may be related to release Mach (M) and release
angle of attack (a)by

C,, = M' b,[ +

:
- + - + b, a2

C, = M' d , +
:j:
-+- + d4 'a

The coefficients in these equations are determined by linear least squares regression. The results obtained
from the CBU-58 test data are shown in Figures C-5 to C-7. These results are plots of the initial coefficients
derived from flight test data and the same coefficients predicted by the above equations after the regression.
Mach number is the "hidden" variable in these plots.

Additional equations are developed by regressing (linear) C, versus C,, C, versus C,, and C, versus C6.
Using the drag force coefficients as an example, the following equations

c, = c, + __CZ
l + T

c, = c, c,+ (33)

and

C, = a5 + a6 C, (34)

have three unknowns, C,, C,, and C,. a, and a6 come from the linear regression of C, versus C,. C,,
derived from the above equations, is

c, = c, -
c ~ o- as T (35)
1+a6 l + T
 INITIAL DRAG COEFFICIENT v s ALPHA

3.25

2.25 1 00
0

I- %
e 1.75 OU

1.25
1
1 3

I I 1 I 1 1 1 1 1
"n 2 4 6 8 10 12
AIRCRAFT ANGLE OF ATTACK (DEG)

C-5. SEEM Initial Drag Coefficient Versus Angle of Attack

 INITIAL SIDE COEFFICIENT vs ALPHA

I I I 1 1 1 1
.9
0
.8 b

.7
0
.6
0
.5 0
cn b
u b
0
.4

..
?
0
0

0
0
0

.I

I
0 oi
859
0

0
0
0

1 I I 1 1 1 1
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
AIRCRAFT ANGLE OF ATTACK (DEG)

C-6. SEEM Initial Side Force Coefficient Versus Angle of Attack

 D

0
.25 D 0
0

il
u
0 0 .
0
-.25 D

d*
0
0
-.75
o0.0f

-1.25 t 0
D
00

2 4 6 8 10
d
12
AIRCRAFT ANGLE OF ATTACK (DEG)

C-7. SEEM Initial Lift Coefficient Versus Angle of Attack

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Likewise,

c, = ,c, -
CJO - bs T
l+b6 l+T

c, = ,c -
%o - d,
T (37)
l+d6 l+T

where b, and b, come from the linear regression of C, versus C,. The coefficients d, and d, come from the
regression of C, versus C,.

Equations (31), (39, (36), and (37) are used to determine the drag, side force, and lift coefficients for a
3DOF simulation of a bomb trajectory. The role of each force coefficient in improving the 3DOF simulation
accuracy is illustrated in Figure C-8. Each dot on the plot is the difference between the 3DOF output and
the TSPI at the point of trajectory termination. The first or left-hand frame compares a 3DOF using only
freestream drag from release to termination. C,, C,, CLindicated as "OFF" means no additional forces are
added during separation. The next frame shows the addition of the drag due to separation effects and related
conditions.

The maximum payoff from KDEM and SEEM is obtained when the programs are used to develop 3DOF
ballistics for a new bomb. With sufficient TSPI and bomb diameter and weight data, a user can determine
both separation effects force coefficients and freestream drag coefficients. Inputs from similarity analysis
or wind tunnels are not needed. Given the TSPI on magnetic tape, a user should be able to complete a 50-
bomb drop analysis in less than two working days. The computer program execution time, on a modern
mainframe computer, for a SO-bomb drop file is less than 25 seconds. Most of the time required in
completing the analysis is used in preparing the input files.

The accuracy of the 3DOF simulations using the KDEM and SEEM coefficients should be on the order of
7.0 mils or less for dispensers like the CBU-58 and 3.0 mils or less for low-drag bombs like the MK 82
LDGP. The following accuracies have been obtained from 3DOF simulations using coeficients derived by
SEEM:

AIRCRAFT BOMB RACK BIAS ERROR RANDOM ERROR (CEP)

x(milS)y(") -
mils
F-16 CBU-58 TER 0.60 -0.60 7.11
F-16 MK82LDGP TER 0.68 0.90 4.13
F-16 MK 82LDGP PYLON 0.88 0.38 2.77
F-4 CBU-52 TER 0.63 0.09 2.64
F-4 MK-20 TER 1.10 0.62 3.81

KDEM produces a high-fidelity estimate of KD because the process attempts to match the entire freestream
trajectory. The convergence criteria is less than a 3-percent change in KDfrom the previous iteration. This
criteria is much better than adjusting a KDversus Mach curve until all drops are predicted with less than a
given range error of +SO feet evenly distributed. The miss-distance adjustment criteria had previously
shown that the BDU-5; had the same ballistics as the MK 82 LDGP. Indeed, the range error difference
between BDU-50's and MK 82 LDGP's appear low and insignificant. However, the BDU-SO K, was at least
23 percent higher. While this difference is insignificant for low-altitude release, it would become significant
for high-altitude release.
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Impact on Test Requirements

KDEM and SEEM were developed to use the current TSPI. There are three areas where improvements in
testing could produce better data not only for these computer programs but for TSPI users in general. The
areas of improvement are:

1. On-site and on-time weather measurements.

2. Accurate measurements for the first second o f flight.
3. Accurate measurements for aircraft G, Mach number, and angle of attack.

Some tests are conducted with weather measurements from some other site several miles away and several
hours prior to, or after, the test. TSPI on a bomb for the first second of flight is usually poor. In fact,
SEEM has to ignore any TSPI until 1.2 seconds into the trajectory. The algorithms relating separation
effects to bomb release conditions need accurate measurement. Angle-of-attack measurements are critical
at low angles of attack. There is considerable force coefficient sensitivity in the low angle-of-attack region
as shown previously in Figures C-5 to C-7.

On the other hand, KDEM and SEEM may not reduce the number of bomb drops required to develop an
accurate 3DOF model. With perfect measurements, KDEM will determine a K, curve that will match the
TSPI trajectory from the onset of freestream conditions to impact with little or no error. However, a
different drop will produce a different K, curve because the bomb exhibits its ownunique trajectory. Bombs
and bomb trajectories are like snowflakes; no two are identical. Several drops are still required to predict
the "average" bomb. Testing must also produce sufficient data to predict the "average" bomb rack and the
"average" flowfield effect.

OFT Considerations

The C,, C,, and C, equations were developed for possible addition to the Onboard Flight Program (OFP).
There are no transcendental functions or non-integer exponents in the equations. However, the number of
terms or coefficients may be prohibitive. The SEEM computer program also performs linear least squares
regression of alternate equation forms for the initial force coefficients. The following forms are also
regressed where CDois used as the example:

a. C, ~~
= M' (al)

C. C, =
[ 2 ):
M' a, t -+-

The prediction accuracy of each form is also provided to aid the user in selecting the form to use. Since
a, and as are always used, the use of form "a" requires 9 coefficients, form "b" requires 12 coefficients,
form "c" requires 15 coefficients, and form "d" requires 18 coefficients. The value of "r" is parametrically
set to 0, 1, 2, and 3 to find the best power of Mach.

Another concern of OFP developers is computation time and the number of integration steps needed to
accurateIy integrate the trajectory. Accelerations due to separation forces are high in some cases and may
require less than a 0.2-second integration step size for accurate results. Current OFP computers may not
be able to accurately compute these high accelerations.
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OFP mechanization of these equations may not be the best approach in developing an accurate OFP ballistics
model. Another approach is to replace the 3DOF model and integration technique in SEEM with a model
of the actual OFP trajectory routine. Modeling errors, mechanization errors, and integration errors would
be absorbed in the regressed coefficients.

6DOF Ballistics Development

Several attempts have been made to develop methods to estimate 6DOF aerodynamic coefficients from flight
test data. Some of these procedures have been successful in their particular limited application.
Aerodynamic parameter estimation techniques are applied in ballistic ranges for gun projectiles, in the wind
tunnel for drop model testing, and in aircraft flight testing. In each case the vehicle’s flight is at a near-
constant Mach number and atmospheric condition. These controlled tests eliminate the need to model the
Mach number variation of the aerodynamic coefficients during a flight test. In the case of a free-fall bomb,
neither the bomb’s Mach number nor the atmospheric conditions can be controlled. The aerodynamic
parameter estimation procedure is mathematically more complex. There is no known operational 6DOF
ballistics analysis procedure being used for free-fall bombs.

The need to develop a 6DOF ballistic analysis capability is driven by the need to reduce the number of bomb
drops and to improve the prediction accuracy of the resultant ballistic models. This need can be met by
measuring more of the bomb’s state variables and measuring them more accurately. For example, current
TSPI measures only translational motion to determine a total K, which varies from bomb to bomb because
atmospheric and physical variations cause each bomb to exhibit a unique total yaw time history. If total yaw
angle could be measured in addition to translational motion, then the following drag model could be used.

KD = K
, + ICD,@

K, is the drag coefficient at zero yaw angle. K

, is the induced drag coefficient caused by the bomb’s total
yaw angle, 6. The K, and K,, values should be the same for each bomb drop, given the same Mach
number variation during the drop. Thus, only a few bombs are required to determine the ballistic
coefficients. However, several more bombs may be required to find the average 6 although a 6 of zero is
expected for the “average” bomb.

There is no need to develop a 6DOF ballistic analysis capability if instrumentation capabilities do not exist
to measure a state variable from each degree of freedom of the bomb’s motion.

Instrumentation

Major advances in instrumentation have occurred in the past ten years. There are technology programs that
will produce even more advances within the next ten years. Yet, ballistic analysis procedures are limited
to the use of ground-based tracking devices. Even these devices could be enhanced to give better than a 3-
foot bomb position measurement accuracy. However, adapting instruments to measure the required state
variables is not a straightforward task.

The most desired measurements are the bomb’s center of gravity acceleration and the bomb’s angular
acceleration about each body axis. Instruments to make these measurements must be precisely located at the
bomb’s center of gravity and precisely aligned with each body axis. Thus, a special modified bomb with
the embedded instruments is needed. These instrumented bombs would he costly and, therefore, may he
undesirable. Instruments located elsewhere in or on the bombs are subject lo coupling effects of angular and
translational motion. That is, a fixed point in a translating and rotating reference frame (bomb body axes)
has an inertial acceleration of
a=a,+ox(oxr)
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where a. is the inertial translational acceleration of the axis system origin, o is its angular rate, and r is the
position vector to the point. If a linear accelerometer is placed with its input axis parallel to the x-body axis,
then the accelerometer would measure

a = am - x (42 + 13) + y @4 - i ) + z@r + 4)

where

a = accelerometer output
a, = the non-gravitational x component of the bomb's acceleration
p,q,r = components of the angular velocity; roll, pitch, and yaw respectively
x,y,z = location coordinates of the accelerometer

This measurement could not be used as the acceleration of the bomb's center of gravity directly. With
measurements of the angular rates and accderation, a derived center-of-gravity acceleration can be obtained.
An alternate technique may locate two linear accelerometers on the x-axis at different points. The two
measurements permit a derivation of the x-component of the center-of-gravity acceleration.

Instrumentation location and subsequent derivation of the desired state variables from these measurements
can be determined. Most instrumentation locations will be in a modified nose fuze, a tail fuze, and in the
tailkin assembly. With solid-state microcircuitry, some very small and reliable linear and angular
accelerometers and gyros are likely available for this application. One ongoing technology program is
developing a very thin wafer than contains inertial sensing devices. This program may produce a "peel and
stick" inertial sensor.

Instrumentation performance requirements are to be defined. Some requirements are severe while some are
relatively benign. Gyro drift rate errors may be tolerated at large values since measurement durations will
likely be less than 5.0 seconds. An extreme duration would be 30 seconds. Scale factory error or g
sensitivity for linear accelerometers may have to be extremely low. The highest angular rate of a bomb is
its spin rate which could be as high as 600 rpm. A point on the surface of the bomb where an accelerometer
could be located may have as much as 100 g's acceleration.

Analysis Methods

Analytical methods to estimate 6DOF aerodynamic coefficients from the measured motion of the bomb are
being developed. Most of the software needed can be readily developed. However, there are software
interfaces needed with the instrumentation suite. The software must interface with the variables that are
being measured. There are numerous combinations of state variables in either earth-fixed axes or in body-
fixed axes that are suitable for the estimation process. For example, it is possible to use current TSPI and
body-fixed strap-down gyros to obtain position data in the earth axes and angular rate data in the body axes.
Any combination is suitable as long as there are measurements from each degree of freedom of body motion.

The analytical methods should be similar to the 6DOF parameter estimation procedures in use today.
However, for free-fall weapons, the aerodynamic coefficient must be modeled as a function of Mach number,
angle of attack, and angle of yaw for each drop. A mathematical model having three independent variables
may be too difficult to construct. A reasonable approach is to model the time variation of the aerodynamic
coefficient as a polynomial and, given the polynomial, correlate the coefficient with Mach, angle of attack,
and of yaw at the same time marks.

Regardless of the technique used, the mathematics are complex but not impossible. Although large size
matrices are involved, there are sufficient computer memory and computing speed to solve the problem.
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The primary focus of both h e instrumentation and the analytical methods is to determine and model the
bomb motion during the first 2 to 3 seconds of flight. The resultant ballistics model at the 6DOF level may
be suitable for computer mainframe applications such as generating bombing tables. Much less sophisticated
ballistics modeling is needed for OFP applications, at least until much larger and faster OFP computers are
available. Such models can be developed from the more sophisticated 6DOF model.

Impact on Test Requirements

The number of flight tests should be significantly reduced, but the number of personnel involved during
bomb loading will increase. The number of personnel will be approximately the same number as required
by any instrumented weapon that is released from an aircraft. In addition to the regular ground crew,
instrumentation checks will have to be made by instrumentation technicians.

The loading time will be increased by the amount of time required to complete the instrumentation checklist.
Data reduction time may be reduced if phototbeodolites are not part of the instrumentation suite. Film
reading is a time-consuming task.

Payoffs

The highest expected payoff is more accurate ballistic models. The ballistic prediction error should have
a zero mean and a CEP no larger than the natural ballistic CEP of the weapon.

The next payoff should be in the number of bomb drops required. The complete freestream 6DOF ballistics
can be determined with a few bombs. However, separation variations could increase this number four-fold.
The problem here is that the 6DOF capability c m o t account for the variations in the hardware. It only
determines the aerodynamic coefficients needed to predict the measured bomb motion.

Payoffs in time are likely because most of the analyses will be accomplished on a computer, and there will
be fewer flight tests.

A cost savings may be the least expected payoff. While flight costs, personnel costs, and data reduction
costs are expected to be lower, the instrumented bomb cost will be higher. How much higher depends on
the types of instruments and their accuracy requirements. Instrument price is usually proportional to
instrument precision.
 APPENDIX D

BALLISTIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSES STUDY FOR CBU-58

AND MK 84 LDGP STORES

Office for Aircraft Compatibility

3246th Test Wing/TY
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida 32542-5000

January 1990
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Introduction

A ballistic sensitivity analysis determines the impact error caused by an error in the nominal value of a
bomb input parameter or a release parameter. The magnitude of the impact error divided by the
magnitude of the parameter error is the error's ballistic sensitivity. Such analyses are performed by using
a GDOF computer program and by inputting incremental changes to those input parameters identified as
having an error. These parameters may include bomb weight, moments of inertia, aerodynamics, ejection
velocity, release timing error, and numerous others. If the input parameter can have an error, it is
referred to as an error source. Virtually all inputs are potential error sources, but some are prone to occur
more often than others. It is the random combination of these errors from bomb to bomb that produces the
bomb's ballistic dispersion. If the magnitude of the error sources is known, a large number of random
combinations (Monte Carlo trials) should produce a theoretical estimate of the bomb's ballistic dispersion.

Theoretical estimates of a bomb's dispersion are beneficial during the design phase and production phase
of the bomb. Using ballistic sensitivity analyses, a bomb may be designed to have minimum dispersion
when released from a specific aircraft. The GDOF methodology, in this case, must have aircraft flowfield
interference methods. In general, design specifications can be set so that the freestream dispersion will be
less than a given value.

If a production bomb exhibits an undesired level of dispersion, a ballistic sensitivity analysis could identify
the error sources most likely to be causing the undesired dispersion. Such an analysis can also evaluate a
proposed product improvement to minimize or eliminate a given error source. While the sensitivity to one
error source may be large, its removal from the possible combinations of errors may have little effect on
reducing the bomb's dispersion.

If a new bomb is being certified for release from a particular aircraft, a ballistic sensitivity study should be
performed using design specification tolerances for error source magnitude. Excessively large dispersions
could indicate that the design tolerances, in combination with the aircraft's flowfield, may produce erratic
and possibly dangerous separation dynamics. If the theoretical dispersion estimates appear acceptable, the
dispersion value may be used in test planning to determine the number of bomb drops required to
realistically determine the bomb's dispersion.

In developing ballistic coefficients and other ballistic algorithms, the process continues until a minimum
ballistic prediction error is reached. The random component of ballistic prediction error cannot be less
than the bomb's natural dispersion. When developing ballistics for a new bomb, this limiting value can be
useful. If the ballistics data and algorithm produces a ballistic prediction error that is several magnitudes
above the theoretical estimate, the ballistician needs to seek alternate algorithms and possibly request other
tests.

The following sections present data from a recent ballistic sensitivity analysis study. Data were generated
using the Ballistic Error Assessment Model (BEAM) computer program. Results of this study indicate that
the CEP for the CBU-58 when released from a modern tactical fighter aircraft should be less than 6.9 mils,
and the CEP for the MK 84 should be less than 2.3 mils.

Weapon Manufacture Errors

These errors are primarily errors in the bomb weight, center of gravity location, and the moments of
inertia. This group of errors could be responsible for as much as 4.6 mils CEP for the CBU-58, but only
0.10 mil CEP for the MK 84 LDGP. The most sensitive error source in this group is the transverse
location of the center of gravity. An error of 0.3 inch (standard deviation) in either the y- or z-axis
components produces a 4.0-mil CEP. For dispenser-type bombs, this type of error may be prevalent
because the submunitions may shift during storage and carriage.
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Aircraf€/Rack Errors
This group of errors includes release timing errors, pylon alignment errors, and ejection rack errors. The
timing error is the error in time from the cockpit switch to the ejection cartridge ignition. The pylon
alignment error is an error in the bomb's initial pitch and yaw angles relative to the aircraft. The ejection
rack errors include a lengthy list of possible errors because the BEAM computer program includes a fairly
detailed simulation of the ejection rack interior ballistics and resulting forces and moments imparted to the
bomb. These error sources could contribute 0.9 mils for the CBU-58 released from a multiple bomb rack
(Le., the TER-9) and 3.4 mils when released from a parent pylon bomb rack (i.e., MAU-12). The MK 84
LDGP's CEP could be 0.7 mil when released from the MAU-12.

The most sensitive source of error in this group is the ejection rack. The MAU-12 sensitivity is higher
than the TER-9 because the MAU-12 imparts larger forces and moments and has more components
included as error sources. The MAU-12-induced CEP is 3.3 mils for the CBU-58 and 0.66 mil for the
MK 84 LDGP.

Atmospheric Errors

Atmospheric errors include errors in air density, air temperature, wind magnitude, and wind direction.
This group of errors in the real world are correlated and quite variable. The BEAM computer program
includes a weather model which generates a typical weather profile as a function of altitude for a random
day of the year. Thus, the sensitivity defined here is the sensitivity to day-to-day weather change. The
sensitivity was determined from 75 random days or weather files. These files were used to compute 75
trajectories having the same initial conditions. The dispersion obtained was 3.25 mils CEP for the CBU-
58 and 1.75 mils CEP for the MK 84 LDGP.

Aerodynamic Errors

This group of errors include aerodynamic force, restoring moment, and damping moment variations.
These errors are due to body shape variations, fin and nose misalignments, surface texture variations, and
lug height variations. In the BEAM computer program, any aerodynamic force variation that does not act
through the center of gravity also produces a moment variation. Rather large aerodynamic forces can act
through the center of gravity and cause little variation in the dispersion. A force standard deviation
equivalent to 6.7 pounds (5 percent of freestream) acting through the CBU-58 center of gravity and
parallel to the x-axis produces a 1.0-mil CEP. Only a 0.32-pound force variation acting normal to the x-
axis and on the surface of the bomb produces a 3.0-mil CEP. Similar forces on a percentage basis
produces only a fraction of a 1.0-mil CEP for the MK 84 LDGP.

Another source of error is the aircraft's flowfield. The causes of variations in the flowfield are speculative
because the problem is complex. Given the same atmospheric conditions, the same aircraft altitude, and
the same aircraft configuration, there should be no variation in the flowfield. Wind tunnel testing would
prove this statement. However, no two aircraft are identical, stores are suspended with variations, and
pilots fly the aircraft differently. Regardless, the study shows that if there is a 5-percent variation in the
aerodynamics describing the flowfield, the effect on CEP is O S mil for the CBU-58 and 1.33 mils for the
MK 84 LDGP,

Impact on Testing

This ballistic sensitivity study shows:

a. Dispenser-type stores are sensitive to transverse center-of-gravity errors, MAU-12 releases,

aerodynamic moments, and the weather.

b. Low drag heavy bombs are insensitive to expected variations in their aerodynamics and physical
properties. Most of the sensitivity comes from the weather, the flowfield, and the MAU-12.
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The study could recommend changes to the testing procedures which could reduce the level of ballistic
dispersion. But this measured dispersion would not represent the real world and could only be referred to
as a "test" dispersion.
I The study does show that the MAU-12 needs to be serviced and inspected to reduce its effects on the test
CEP. The weather should be measured accurately and timely to reduce its effects on the test CEP.
Transverse measurements of the bomb's center of gravity may eliminate some "wild" dispensers like the
CBU-58 before they are dropped. Such eliminations would reduce the test CEP.
 APPENDIX E

METHOD OF TEST ANNEX

TEST DIRECTIVE 2671AL71

BLU-l07/B PARENT CARRIAGE ON F-16AIB AIRCRAET

Office for Aircraft Compatibility

3246th Test Wmg/TY
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida 32542-5000

25 July 1988
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1.0 INTRODUCTION
This Method of Test (MOT) Annex identifies test procedures and related data collection, reduction, and
analysis requirements to accomplish stated test objectives. The 3246 Test Wing, Eglin AFB, Florida, is
the designated RTO. The test is designed in response to 3246 TES'IWITY letter, dated 26 May 1988,
subject: Work Request (WR) for BLU-l07/B Parent Carriage on F-16AIB Aircraft. An AD technical
report will be required.

1.1 Background/Overview
1.1.1 Headquarters Tactical Air Command has identified a requirement (TAC Certification Request 4-86)
to certify the BLU-107 Purandal) parent carriage on F-16PJB aircrafi. The testing to be accomplished
under Test Directive (TD) 2671AL71 will provide data to support certification for carriage and
employment of the BLU-107 on the F-16 parent pylons. The certification recommendations will be made
by 3246 TESTWRY.

1.1.2 The scope of testing under TD 2671AL71 will encompass assessment of sway brace pad torquing,
captive compatibility flights, flutter investigations, and aircrafM"ition separation demonstrations. Time-
Space-Position-Inforation (TSPI) will also be collected on BLU-107 munitions released from F-16
aircraft.

1.1.3 The test missions to be conducted are outlined in the mission summary attached to this MOT' Annex
(Attachment 1). Applicable flight test configurations and related flight clearance/limits are as established
by 3246 TESTWRY.

1.1.4 The AD Airborne Test ReviewISafety Board (ATRISB) will act as final authority (ref. ADR 127-2)
on the safety aspects of the flight test missions associated with the test. The flight test? will be conducted
over authorized AD test areas using standard flight profiles.

1.2 Test Objectives

1.2.1 Evaluate the new loading procedure for torquing sway brace pads one half turn beyond initial
contact.

1.2.2 Demonstrate captive carriage compatibility of BLU-107IB munitions on F-16 aircraft to be

prescribed flight limits using a specified aircraft/weapon flight test configuration and flight profile.

1.2.3 Collect flutter flight test data on specified F-l6/external store configurations involving the carriage
of BLU-10703 munitions.

1.2.4 Demonstrate the release and separation of BLU-10703 munitions released from F-16 aircraft using
specified aircraft flight test configurations and munition release conditions.

1.2.5 Collect ballistics data (TSPI) on BLU-107IB munitions released from F-16 aircraft.

2.0 TEST ITEM DESCRIPTION

2.1 Primary Test Aircraft. A detailed description of the basic F-16 aircraft may be found in USAF
Technical Order 1-F-16A/C-1. Specific requirements related to this test are identified below.

2.1.1 Captive Carriage Investigations. Any F-16 aircraft may be used other than instrumented F-16
flutter flight test aircraft.

2.1.2 Flutter Investigations. An AD F-16 aircraft with an operable onboard instrumentation system for
flutter flight tests will be required. PDAS and HUD recording capability (selected aircraft performance
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parameters) will also be required. m:All BLU-107 flutter missions must he performed on the same
flutter instrumented F-16.

2.1.3 Aircraft/Munition Separations. The F-16 aircraft used for the conduct of this phase of the test
(F-16 flutter-instrumented aircraft excluded) must have an appropriate onboard motion picture capability,
i.e., AIM-9 camera pods and strake/chaff cameras to provide photographic coverage of the
aircraft/munition separation events. m: It will be essential that TFOA personnel keep the GADS
office (KRT) informed of camwallens combination changes that occur after the initial setup and calibration
of the F-16 onboard camera system.

2.2 BLU-lO’IIB Munition. The BLU-107lB is a parachute retarded, rocket boosted, concrete penetration
bomb designed for low-level release against airfield targets. Physical properties pertaining to the BLU-
107/B are reflected in Attachment 2 to this M m Annex. The BLU-107lB munitions provided for this test
are to be configured with inert warheads and live rocket motors.

3.0 INSTRUMENTATION ( G r o u n d and Airborne Facility Requirements)

Existing facilitieslcapabilities identified in AD Technical Facilities Manuals, Vol 1 and Vol 2, are adequate
to support this flight test. Applicable technical requirements/procedures are detailed in the Technical
Support Annex (Annex B) to this Test Directive.

4.0 OBJECTIVES, PROCEDURES, AND DATA

4.1 Captive Carriage Investigations. (Ref. Para. 1.2.1 and 1.2.2, Test Objectives.)

4.1.1 Purpose. An abbreviated captive compatibility test mission is conducted primarily to demonstrate
the structural integrity aspects of a given flight test configuration. The structural integrity of the MAU-
12lBLU-107 combination during flight after being subjected to a decreased torquing of bomb rack sway
brace pads (one half turn after initial contact versus one full turn, normally) will be an area of particular
interest on the first captive flight test mission (ref. Msn No. 1, Atch 1 to this MOT Annex).

4.1.2 Method

4.1.2.1 Procedure

4.1.2.1.1 It is to be noted that on the first captive test flight (Msn No. 1) the effectiveness of a non-
standard sway brace tightening procedure is to be evaluated. The BLU-107 is to be loaded on the MAU-
12 bomb rack with the sway braces tightened only one half turn after initial contact. Loading checklists
are to he coordinated through 3246 TESTWlTYDD prior to scheduling any flying missions.

4.1.2.1.2 Mass properties measurements will he made and recorded as part of the test records with
respect to the weight, c.g. location, and moments of inertia (pitch and yaw) of the BLU-107 munitions
provided for the test. Mass properties measurements for other external stores will also be accomplished as
needed and the results recorded as part of the test records. Items with mass properties different from those
indicated in the 3246 TESTWlTY Flight Clearance letter must be cleared by 3246 TESTW/TY prior to
scheduling a flight test mission.

4.1.2.1.3 The specific aircraftlexternal store flight test configurations and pertinent test conditions (ref.
Mission Detail column, Mission Summary) for the planned captive flights are outlined in Atch 1 to this
M m Annex. The assigned 3247th Test Pilot will construct and fly an appropriate captive flight profile to
accomplish the flight requirements outlined for these missions.

4.1.2.1.4 After each captive carriage flight, the munitionlaircraft combination will be visually inspected
for indications of looseness, cracking, or material failure. The physical security of arming and/or fin
release lanyards will he checked during the inspection. Any discrepancies will be documented
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photographically. (NOTE: 3246 TESTWITY will be presented when the aircraft munition loading is
inspected prior to and after each captive test flight.)

4.1.2.1.5 The pilot conducting the captive compatibility investigation will provide, as part of the test
records, a written report describing the actual flight profile performed, including maneuvers, airspeeds,
and g-loads demonstrated during flight. Any aircraft-handling problems peculiar to the flight test
configuration flown or aircraft system malfunctions that adversely affected the outcome of the flight test
mission will also be documented in the report.

4.1.2.1.6 The pilot of the chase aircraft will be responsible for advising the pilot of the primary test
aircraft of any problems observed with the F-16lexternal store configuration during captive carriage. As
part of the test records, the chase pilot will provide a written report of his observations should problems be
encountered with the F-16 flight test configuration.

4.1.2.1.7 As part of the test records, the aircraft flight test configuration for captive carriage
investigations will be documented by still photographs as requested by the test engineer.

4.1.2.2 Criteria. Acceptance criteria for captive compatibility flights will be in consonance with Para.
250.4, Test 250, MIL-STD-1763. Criteria for success of the sway brace tightening procedure will be on
the basis of observations by test personnel that during flight all sway brace pads remained tightened/intact
and that the physical integrity of the sway-brace pads was not adversely affected, Le., no fractures or
breakage.

4.1.2.3 Resources Required. Principal resource requirements related to captive carriage flight test
investigations will include:

4.1.2.3.1 F-16 aircraft and assigned 3247th flight test pilot

4.1.2.3.2 Safety chase aircraft

4.1.2.3.3 Tanker aircraft

4.1.2.3.4 BLU-107lB test munitions

4.1.2.3.5 Munition loading checklists

4.1.2.3.6 3246th Munition Maintenance Squadron support (load crews)

4.1.2.3.7 Munition handlingluploading equipment

4.1.2.3.8 Water test area

4.1.2.3.9 CCF (monitorlcommunications with primary test aircraft)

4.1.2.3.10 Still documentary photography

4.1.2.3.11 Mass properties measurement facility (Bldg 990)

4.1.2.4 Data Records. Pertinent test records (data sources) will be:

4.1.2.4.1 Test pilot's flight test mission report (1 copy to 3246 TESTWlTY)

4.1.2.4.2 Test engineer's flight test mission records, including results of postflight inspection of
aircraftlmunitionslsway braces and any related photography.
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4.1.2.4.3 Still documentary photographs (flight test configurations). Two sets of prints to 3246
TESTWRY.

4.1.2.4.4 Mass property records (munitions). 1 copy to 3246 TESTW/TY.

4.1.2.5 Data Reduction: None

4.1.2.6 Data Analysis. Pilot's test mission reports and test engineer's test mission notes will be reviewed
and assessed for evidence of adverse physical integrity of the MAU-12 rack/BLU-107 munition
combination as the result of captive carriage flight. The adequacy of the sway brace tightening procedures
employed for the captive flights will be evaluated. Evidence of any conditions that may have adversely
affected aircraft handling characteristics or safety of flight as a result of the captive carriage of the BLU-
107 munitions on the F-16 aircraft will also be ascertained.

4.1.2.7 Summary of Missions. Ref. Mission No. 1 and Mission No. 2, Atch 1 to this MOT Annex.

4.1.2.8 Potential Hazards. No safety hazards are envisioned that would elevate risks above those
normally associated with captive flight investigations, i.e., not categorized as high risk flight test mission
(ref. ADR 127-2).

4.2 Flutter Test Flights. (Ref. Para. 1.2.3, Test Objectives)

4.2.1 Purpose. To collect quantitative flight test data to establish Limit Cycle Flutter (LCF) onset and
decay for selected F-16/BLU-107 flight test configurations flown within a prescribed flight envelope.

4.2.2 Method.

4.2.2.1 Procedure.

4.2.2.1.1 Mass properties measurements will be made and recorded as part of the test records with
respect to the weight, c.g. location, and moments of inertia (pitch and yaw) of the BLU-107 munitions
provided for the test. Mass properties measurements for other external stores will also be accomplished as
needed and the results recorded as part of the test records. Items with mass properties different from those
indicated in the 3246 TESTW/TY Flight Clearance letter must be cleared by 3246 TESTWITY prior to
scheduling a flight test mission.

4.2.2.1.2 Approved munition loading checklists (ref. AFSCR 66-1 and ADR 136-3) and aircrew
prefligWpostflight checklists (ref. ADR 127-2 and AD Sup 1 to AFSCR 80-33) must be available prior to
the start of flight testing.

4.2.2.1.3 Use of a safety chase aircraft in support of flutter test flights will be commensurate with
ATRlSB requirements. Aerial tanker support may be used to extend flight duration for primary and/or
chase aircraft.

4.2.2.1.4 The pertinent flight test configurations and related data points for the flutter investigations are
shown in Attachment 1 to this MOT Annex.

4.2.2.1.5 The Centralized Control Facility (CCF/TELEMAG), Bldgs 380/381, will be required to receive
and record time correlated telemetry (TM) signals. Selected TM parameters will be required to be
displayed in real time for analysis by 3246 TESTWlTY flight test specialist. A dedicated radio frequency
will be required for mission control purposes. Direct and frequent communication between mission
controller/flight test specialists and the pilot of the F-16 primary test aircraft is essential for an instant
abort notification on a test point. All test related ground/aircraft communications will be recorded (time
correlated) for subsequent playback in conjunction with post mission data analysis, if required.
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4.2.2.1.6 Ground-based radar will be used as required to vectodcontrol and/or track the F-16 primary test
aircraft during the conduct of the flutter investigations. Requirements for primary TSPI data recording
and/or secondary radar pen plots will be as specified by the test engineer.

4.2.2.1.7 The F-16 primary test aircraft will be prepositioned at a prebriefed altitude and airspeed over
the authorized AD test area prior to execution of the first flight test maneuver in the flight test mission
profile. Initiation of an investigation at a given test point will be communicated by the TZG Test Engineer
at the CCF. Upon assessment of the real-time displays during the execution of a test point, the flight test
specialists at the CCF in conjunction with pilot qualitative assessments will determine whether the pilot of
the F-16 primary test aircraft will repeat a test point or proceed to another selected test point in the flight
test mission profile. Until the go-ahead is given to establish the next test point, the pilot of the F-16
m:
primary test aircraft will loiter at his discretion at a safe airspeedlaltitude. TY flight test specialist
will require hard copies of CRT displays when critical performance limils are approached.

4.2.2.1.8 An abort of a test point will be based on the judgment of the pilot and/or the flight test
specialists at the CCF observing real-time displays of the frequency and amplitude of selected parameters.
If an abort is called, the pilot is to immediately cease the test maneuver and enact the appropriate abort
procedure established at the pilot preflight briefing. The F-16 primary test aircraft may then loiter until
further instructions are received. If a radio failure occurs, the flight test mission will be stopped and the
F-16 primary test aircraft will return to base within the safe return airspeed envelope.

4.2.2.1.9 Upon landing after each F-16 flutter test mission, the aircraftlexternal store flight test
configuration will be visually inspected for indications of external store looseness/structural integrity.
Inspection results will be documented by the test engineer as part of the test records.

4.2.2.1.10 The TY flight test specialists who will be working at the CCF during the flight tests must
participate in the preflight briefing of the pilot of the primary F-16 test aircraft. Test pilot briefings will
include the specific flight maneuvers to be accomplished, the identificalion and discussion of the critical
data points to be attempted, pertinent flight envelope restrictions, and test proceduresldecision criteria.
Concise terminology for executing an abort of a test point will be established also. A postflight debriefing
of the F-16 test pilot for flight test engineering personnel will be established by the test engineer as deemed
necessary.

4.2.2.1.11 As part of the test records, the test pilot of the F-16 primary test aircraft will provide the test
engineer with a written flight test report upon completion of each test flight. Any problems with aircraft
handling qualities/characteristics will be identified. Awarenedevidence of uncharacteristic oscillations,
vibrations, noise, buss, flutter, or other dynamic aeroelastic instabilities during the accomplishment of test
points will be noted and repoited. Deviations between actual and briefed test points will be documented.
Weather or air turbulence conditions that adversely affect the results of the test flight will be identified.
Any problems experienced with respect to the operation of onboard instrumentation, ground/air
communication, or test mission control procedures will be identified also.

4.2.2.1.12 The TZ test engineer will maintain a flight test log to include a record of the flight test
configuration, related munition mass properties, total flight time, and test points completed. Pilot flight
test mission reports will be included as part of the flight test log. Any deficiencies occurring in airborne
systems or ground support that adversely affected the conduct of the missions will be recorded. As part of
the test records, still descriptive photographs will be made to document flight test configurations and test
setup, including aircraft instnunentation installations and supporting test site equipment/displays used in
the conduct of the test.

4.2.2.2 Criteria. Acceptance criteria with respect to the outcome of the flutter investigations will be in
consonance with paragraph 210.4, Test 21, Flutter Tests,MIL-STD-1763.

4.2.2.3 Resources Required. Principal resource requirements related to acquisition of flutter flight test
data will include:
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4.2.2.3.1 Flutter-Instrumented F-16 aircraft and assigned 3247th flight test pilot

4.2.2.3.2 BLU-107 munitions

4.2.2.3.3 Associated external stores (inert AIM-gP, L missiles; external fuel tanks)

4.2.2.3.4 External stores loading checklists and external store handling/loading equipment

4.2.2.3.5 3246th MMS support (load crews)

4.2.2.3.6 3246 TESTW/TFES support (airborne instrumentation)

4.2.2.3.7 Penthouse (Bldg 130) telemetry support

4.2.2.3.8 CCFlTELEMAG (telemetry recordingldisplay)

4.2.2.3.9 Computer Sciences Directorate (KRB) support (data reduction)

4.2.2.3.10 AD Water Test Area

4.2.2.3.11 Ground radar monitor/control @rimary test aircraft)

4.2.2.3.12 Chase aircraft

4.2.2.3.13 Aerial tanker support

4.2.2.3.14 Precision Measurements Facility (Bldg 990)

4.2.2.3.15 Still documentary photography

4.2.2.4 Data Records. Pertinent test records (data sources) will he:

4.2.2.4.1 Aircraft onboard recording (PDAS/HUD)

4.2.2.4.2 Telemetry/Recording (ground TM site)

4.2.2.4.3 Telemetry real time stripout records

4.2.2.4.4 Hard copies of CRT displays

4.2.2.4.5 Ground/air communications recordings

4.2.2.4.6 Radar monitoringltracking plots (if applicable)

4.2.2.4.7 Test pilot's flight test mission reports

4.2.2.4.8 Test engineer's flight test records

4.2.2.4.9 Mass Properties records (munitionslexternal stores) 1 copy to 3246 TESTW/TY

4.2.2.4.10 Still descriptive photography

4.2.2.5 Data Reduction

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4.2.2.5.1 Format and time intervals for telemetry data reduced from magnetic tapes will be as established
by TY and/or TFE. m: The real-time displays of the selected parameters during flight should
normally suffice for the flight investigations. Otherwise, reduction of data from the magnetic tape would
be limited to selected TM stripouts for instrumentation checks to verify that all parameters were recorded
during flight. Copies of reduced telemetry data are to be made available as follows: 2 copies to TY, 2
copies to TFES.)

4.2.2.5.2 Primary radar TSPI (if applicable) will be reduced only at the request of the test engineer. Any
secondary data pen plots will be forwarded to the test engineer as part of the test records.

4.2.2.5.3 PDAS recordings will he reduced as necessary to verify selected aircraft performance
parameters.

4.2.2.6 Data Analysis

4.2.2.6.1 Real time displays of flutter data and any related data will be used by 3246 TESTWRY is
assessing flight test values with respect to analytical predictions for each respective aircraft test
configuration. Lack of aeroelastic stabilityldamping at a given test point will be identified. Limiting
airspeeds for a given aircraft/external store configuration will be established, as required. Certification
recommendations related to safe carriage of BLU-107 munitions of F-16 aircraft will be the responsibility
of 3246 TESTW/TY.

4.2.2.6.2 The test engineer's flight test records and test pilot's flight test reports will be used to
identifylcorroborate test item deficiencies or aircraft system or instrumentation malfunction that adversely
affected test results.

4.2.2.6.3 Playback of voice recordings or HUD video will be accomplished as necessary in resolving data
assessment problems.

4.2.2.7 Summary of Missions. Reference Mission No. 3 and Mission No. 4, Atch 1 to this MOT
Annex.

4.2.2.8 Potential Hazards. Flight hazards which are normally associared with flutter investigations will
be minimized by adherence to the existing 3246 Test Wing letter, da%ed12 November 1985, Subject:
Uniform Abort Policy for F-16 Limit Cycle Flutter &CF) Flight Testing. This letter imposes flight
parameter limits related to limit cycle phenomena during F-16 flutter testing.

4.3 Aircraft/Ordnance Separation Missions (Re. Para 1.2.4 and 1.2.5, Test Objectives)

4.3.1 Purpose. The conduct of aircraft/ordnance separation test missions is to demonstrate the separation
characteristics of a given ordnance when released/launched/jettisoned from the aircraft under prescribed
flight conditions. Time-Space-Position Information (TSPI) on the aircraft prior to weapon release and on
the weapon at release and during separation/fallaway from the aircraft will be used in addressing
ballistic/trajectory characteristics.

4.3.2 Method

4.3.2.1 Procedure

4.3.2.1.1 Weight, center of gravity location, and moment of inertia (pitch and yaw) will be verified and
recorded as part of the test records for those munitions used in the conduct of aircraft/munition separation
flight test investigations NOTE: Items with mass properties different than those prescribed by 3246
TESTWlTY within their related flight clearance letter must be cleared by TY prior to scheduling for
upload on the aircraft.
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4.3.2.1.2 Meteorological records will be required as part of the ballistic data acquisition effort. The
required meteorological data are to be provided as outlined in TZP Standard 76-01.

4.3.2.1.3 Boresights of onboard cameras for documenting aircraftlmunition separation events must be
checked and maintained during this phase of the flight test. N(TrE: It is essential that the GADS office
(KRB) be informed by TFOA instrumentation personnel of camerallens combination changes that occur
after the initial setup and calibration of the camera system of the F-16 primary test aircraft.

4.3.2.1.4 Aerial tanker support will be used as required to extend flight duration for the primary andlor
chase aircraft on selected test missions.

4.3.2.1.5 Under this phase of the test, the release of BLU-107 munitions from the F-16 primary test
aircraft will be accomplished. The specific flight test configurations and munition release conditions are
outlined in the Mission Summary (ref Attachment 1 to the M m Annex). Tolerances (unless specified
otherwise) for flight test conditions are: Airspeed: +10 KCAS (except Mission No. 6, -10 KCAS only);
Mach: kO.2 (except Mission No. 6, -0.2 Mach only); G's: k0.2; Altitude: *lo0 ft; Angle: _+5deg.
m: Pilot may use onboard recording of HUD displays to provide supplementary record of flight
parameters for post-mission reviews of ordnance release events. The Programmable Data Acquisition
System (PDAS) may also be used to record aircraft flight parameters.

4.3.2.1.6 F-16 onboard motion picture coverage and photo-chase motion picture coverage will be
scheduled as required to document munition separation characteristics on each airdrop. Continuous motion
picture coverage is needed for release events from just before the munition is released and until it clears
the aircraft on fallaway. Color film at 200 frames/second is required. Processed airborne photographic
film will be reviewed by the test pilot, the test engineer, and the TY separation engineer after each
aircraft/munition separation mission for evidence of unsafe separation Characteristics. The decision to
conduct the next flight test mission in the series will be determined at this film review. NOTE:
Quantitative film assessment (GADS) may be required before building up to the next release condition for
munition separation test points where simulations/analysis reflect caution, Le., possible collision with
aircraft. Such test points will be identified by 3246 TESTW/TY.

4.3.2.1.7 Tracking of the aircraft/munition combinations by time-correlated cinetheodolites (SSCW,

30 f p s ) and ground-based tracking cameras (color 96 f p s ) will be required to obtain TSPI during the
munition trajectory. Tracking of the aircraftlmunition combination should commence a minimum of 3
seconds prior to the munition release event. The munition will be tracked from just before the instant of
release, through fallaway, to ground impact. Ground-based radar may be used to monitor, track, or
position the bomb-releasing aircraft on approved flight profiles. Radar also may be used to aid
cinetheodolite acquisitions for aircraftlmunition tracking purposes. m: HARP support may be used
when appropriate to aid the pilot to establish release conditions.

4.3.2.1.8 Upon landing after a bomb release mission, the F-16 primary test aircraft will be visually
inspected for evidence of any adverse effects on aircraft skin, bomb racks, or adjacent external stores.
Observed discrepancies will be documented photographically.

4.3.2.1.9 As part of the test records, the pilot of the F-16 primary test aircraft will provide the test
engineer with a complete flight test report upon completion of each aircraft/ordnance separation mission.
Deviations between briefed and actual release conditions (airspeed, altitude, dive angle, and g load) will be
included in the report. Any problems experienced in the carriage or release of the test munitions or with
aircraft handling characteristics will also be included in the report.

4.3.2.1.10 The test engineer's flight test record will include a complete description of each flight test
configuration, including bomb rack loading and related ordnance mass properties, rack orifice opening,
type ejector cartridges, and ordnance release mode. Munition separation problems, test support problems,
or aircraft malfunctions that adversely affected the outcome o f a mission should be documented. Still
descriptive photographs will be made as directed by the test engineer to document the aircraft flight test
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configuration for a given test flight.

4.3.2.2 Criteria. Acceptance criteria with respect to the outcome of the aircraft/munition separation
flight tests will be as set forth in paragraph 271.4, MIL-STD-1763, Aircraft/Stores Certification
Procedures.

4.3.2.3 Resources Required. Principal resource requirements relaled to aircraft/munition separation

flight teSt investigations will include:

4.3.2.3.1 F-16 with onboard camera capability and assigned 3247th flight test pilot

4.3.2.3.2 Photo-chase aircraft with motion picture photographer

4.3.2.3.3 BLU-107 munitions and associated loading checklists

4.3.2.3.4 3246th MMS Load Crews

4.3.2.3.5 Munition handling/uploading equipment

4.3.2.3.6 Munition PMF (Bldg 990)

4.3.2.3.7 Authorized land test area with cinetheodolite and associated ground high speed motion picture
coverage. HARP support

4.3.2.3.8 Meteorological support (ref TZP Standard 76-01)

4.3.2.3.9 CCF/TELEMAG (monitor/communication primary test aircraft; real time PDAS telemetry
display/recording, as required)

4.3.2.3.10 Ground radar monitor/control (primary test aircraft)

4.3.2.3.11 GADS support

4.3.2.3.12 Still documentary photography

4.3.2.4 Data Records. Pertinent test records (data sources) will be:

4.3.2.4.1 * F-16 onboard camera film (2 prints 3246 TESTW/TY; 2 prints McAir)
4.3.2.4.2 * Photochase film (2 copies 3246 TESTW/TY)
4.3.2.4.3 Cinetheodolite film (TSPI)

4.3.2.4.4 Ground tracking camera film

4.3.2.4.5 Munition mass properties records (1 copy AD/KR; 1 copy 3246 TESTWRY)

4.3.2.4.6 Meteorological records (1 copy ADKR; 1 copy 3246 TESTWRY; 1 copy McAir)

4.3.2.4.7 Test pilot flight test mission report (1 copy 3246 TESTW/TY)

4.3.2.4.8 Test engineer test records

4.3.2.4.9 Still documentary photographs (2 sets if prints 3246 TESTWRY)

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4.3.2.4.10 HUD recordings (when applicable)

4.3.2.4.11 PDAS recordings (including telemetry recordings; where applicable)

*The following identification data should be on each roll of film: Msn No., date, type A/C, type
munition, and actual ordnance release parameters.

4.3.2.5 Data Reduction/AnaIysis.

4.3.2.5.1 Cinetheodolite and related ground-based tracking camera film will be reduced to provide
ballistics data in accordance with AD/KR procedure and format, as related to TZP Standard 76-01, dated 2
Sep 86. (Output origin axis should be rotated to align with aircraft ground tracking at munition release.)
Three copies of reduced data to be provided to 3246 TESTW/TYDB.

4.3.2.5.2 3246 TESTW/TY will select film footage for GADS reduction. Separation data will be plotted
in standard GADS format to depict munition pitch, yaw, roll characteristics upon ejection and fallaway
from the aircraft. Two copies of reduced GADS data will be provided to 3246 TESTWITY.

4.3.2.5.3 All airborne photography will be reviewed to ascertain the presence of any aircraft/external
store separation characteristics that pose safety hazards with respect to the release of BLU-107 munitions
from F-16 aircraft.

4.3.2.5.4 Test pilot's flight test reports, HUD, andlor PDAS recordings, and engineer's test records will
be used as necessary to provide inputs for data assessments and to corroborate test item deficiencies,
aircraft system malfunctions, or test support/range problems that adversely affected the outcome of a given
test mission.

4.3.2.5.5 Final analysis of test data with respect to the carriage and employment of BLU-l07/B munitions
using the F-16 aircraft will be the responsibility of 3246 TESTW/TY. The routing and/or integration of
pertinent test data into the freestream database related to T.O. 1F-16-34 ballistics tables will also be the
responsibility of 3246 TESTWITY.

4.3.2.6 Summary of Missions. Ref. Mission No. 5 and Mission No. 6, Atch 1 to this M(TT.

4.3.2.7 Potential Hazards. For planning purposes, 3246 TESTW/TY initially estimates aircraft/munition
separation risks as indicated below. Elevation of any flight test missions designated as Category 1 into a
high-risk regime must be accomplished in accordance with procedures set forth in ADR 127-2.

a. Category 1 - Likely collision between released store and aircraft.

b. Category 2 - Possible but unlikely collision between released store and aircraft.
c. Category 3 - Unlikely collision between released store and aircraft.

5.0 Interim Test Reviews (Ref. TZ 01 80-4). Test program reviews should be accomplished by the test
engineer if any one of the following events occur: unsatisfactory data acquisition, safety problem, or test
items deficiencies which dictate that testing should be suspended or discontinued.
 AIRCRAFT/MUNITION MISSION SUMMARY 1 by: Stephen J. Huntley. NM. 2-894 1
Date:
21 Mar 88 Page 1 Of 3
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BLU-l07/B Parent Ccrriage on F-16 A/B Aircraft

Test Articles and Configurations nstrumentation

Mission Details
qequirements
:onduct a minimum 30 minute captivi
,rofile WW MIL-HNBK-244
N4 m a s 6.2.1.7.6.2 (f). (9). (h).
ALTITUDE: Below 1000 f t MSL lhis is t o verify non- standard
3waybrace tightening procedure of
LOAD FACTOR ("G"): +5.5/- 1.0
3LU-107 on MU- 12.

f swaybrace pads crack or fail,

107 300
WM program manager must be
contacted @or t o flying subsequent
nission.
AIM-9s stations 1,9
BLU--107 station 3
300 Go1 Tank station 5

Line 1

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Station Loading
I Locking F m a r d AIRSPEED (KCAS): 600
MACH: 1.2 Safety
CAPTIVE COMPATIBILITY: Conduct a
captive compatibility flight test
IAW MIL-HNBK-244, paras
LOAD FACTOR ("G"): SfM +6.0/-2.0 Chase 6.2.1.7.6.2 (f). (g), (h). and
ROLL +4.8/-1.0 6.2.1.7.7. Handling qualities
are n o t a n issue. The minimum
BLU -
C total flight time should be
1.5 hows as specified by p m a
107 300
6.2.1.7.3 t o emwe ionipiete
structural evaluation.
AIM-9s stations 1.9 Contingent o n Mission 1.
BLU-107 station 3
Do not exceed 600/1.2 for this
300 Gal Tank station 5 configuration.
Line 1

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Project ntle:
Test Directive Numba:
BLU-107 Parent Carriage
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istrumentation
Msr Test Conditions Mission Details
No. Test Articles and Configurations leauirements
- Flutter F k b t Test
:ondard
3 AIM-9P Stations 2.8 utter flight Profile a d e r will be determined
BLU-107 Stations 3.4.6,7 .80 .80 1.20 :st instru- 3y N E flutter test director.
OPT 300 gal tank Station 5 .85 .85 (600 KCAS) entation The following may be performed
.90 .90 th telemetry 3 t each test point.

Line 2 .95 .95

.98 .98 (600 KCAS)
1.05 (600 3 Frequency sweep
KCAS! 41 Excitation system b u s t
5) 6.0 g wind-up turn
Contingent o n Mission 1.

Some as mission 3
4 AIM-9L Stations 2,8 Same as mission 3
Contingent o n missions 1 and 3.
BLU-107 Stations 3,4.6.7
OPT 300 gal tank Station 5

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Date
22 ~ p aa
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Wma TsstDt@MNlnta
F-1 G/BLU-107 SEEK EAGLE Flight Test
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1st Test Conditions nstrumentation
Test Articles and Configurations Mission Details
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0. 'leauirements

5
Station Lcading I L d i n q Fmard URSPEED (KCAS): 540
LTITUDE (FT M S ) : 1000
Onboard and
chose camera
Pass 1: Release one BLU-107
f r o m station 3.
Pass 2 Release one ELU-107
.OAD FACTOR ("G"): required. f r o m station 7.
SIM: 1.0 Pass 3 Release one BLU-107
UNSYM: NA f r o m station 4.
Gather TSPl Pass 4: Release one BLU-107
?ELEASE M O D E SINGLE IAW TZP STD from station 6.
I BLU BLU BLU BLU NTERVAL (ms): NA 76-0 1
107 107 300 107 107 SEPARATION CATEGORY IllB
XXEWNCES:
Airspeed: +/- 10 KCAS
NOTE TYEA must review onboord and
AIM-9s stations 1.9 Mach: +/- 0.02
chose film along with actual
BLU-107 stations 3.4.6.7
Gs: +/- 0.1
conditions. Only upon N E ' S
Altitude: +/- 100 ft
approval may the next mision
300 Gal Tank station 5
Line 4 b e flown.
Contingent o n Mission 1.
- Pass 1: Release one BLU-107
Station Loading L&ing Fmard 4IRSPEED (KCAS): 600 Onboord and from station 3.
4LTITUDE (FT MSL): 1000 chase camera Pass 2 Release one BLU-107
6 .WD FACTOR ("G"): required. f r o m station 7.
SIM: 1.0 Pass 3 Release one BLU-107
from station 4.
UNSYM: NA Gather TSPl Pass 4 Release one BLU-107
?ELEASE MODE: SINGLE IAW TZP STD f r o m station 6.
MEWPL (ms): NA 76-0 1
107 107 300 107 107 SEPARATION CATEGORY lllB
TOLERANCES:
Airspeed +/- 10 KCAS NOTE TYEA m u s t review onboard and
AIM-9s stations 1.9 Mach: +/- 0.02 chase film along with actual
BLU-107 stations 3,4,6.7 Gs: +/- 0.1 conditions. Only upon TYE's
300 Go1 Tank station 5 Altitude: +/- 100 ft approval n a y the next mision
Line 4 be flown.
Contingent o n Mission 1.
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DATE
MASS AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES DATA 20 Mar 86
WEAPON

BLU-107/6 (Durandal- French)

TYPE

Bomb ( P a r a c h u t e R e t a r d e d , Rocket Motor A c c e l e r a t e d )

WEIGHT F U L L (Lb..J WEIGHT E M P T Y ( L b r . )

483 l b s ( 2 1 9 . 1 kg) NIA

L E N G T H (loch-0)

98.07 (2491 mm)

l l A M E T E R (Inches)
Warhead and r o c k e t motor s e c t i o n - 8.35 (212mm) Parachute S e c t i o n 8 . 7 8 (223 mm)
:,t4

Four f i n s .
FIN SP4.N ( I n s h c s J

17.03 ( 4 3 2 . 5 mm)
F I N A N G L E F R O M L U G S (DeWocsJ SUSPENSION (InrhcsJ
S e l e c t a b l e a t 15" 14 (355.5 mm)
F O R W A R D U O U N T l N G LUG (Inches all 01noseJ - S T A . 0.00

26.77 (679.95 mm! See Note 3

,,EM I FULL I EMPTY

I PITCH A N D YAW ISLUG F T l l 71.0 t 10%

I ROLL [SLUG FT21 0.98 _+ 10%

J U T L l N E A N D MOUNTlNG D R A W I N G OR R E F E R E N C E

Matra Ourandal Dwg, 14 May 79

'UZE

Time d e l a v imoacr.
7EMARKS ( C o n l i n u c on r e v e r i e I 1 n e c e s s a r y )

I. BLU-l07/B Bomb s t o c k #1325-14-398-7137.

2. Properties represent all- up live configuration.
3. When FWO p a i r o f mounting l u g h o l e s a r e u s e d , t h e f o l l o w i n g dimensions apply:
FWO mounting l u g : 24.27 i n .
CG a f t o f FWD l u g : 11.95 + 0 . 5 i n . -

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APPENDIX F

METHOD OF TEST ANNEX

I TEST DIRECTIVE 2671AL78
I
I F-16/Z-1 OPERATIONAL FLIGHT PROGRAM (OFP) FOR SPECIFIED WEAPONS

Office for Aircraft Compatibility

3246th Test WinglTY
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida 32542-5000

21 December 1988
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1.0 INTRODUCTION

This Method of Test ( M m ) Annex identifies test procedures and re1at.d data collection, reduction, and
analysis requirements to accomplish the test objectives. The 3246th Test Wing is the designated
responsible test organization. The test is being conducted in response to 3246 TESTW/TY letter, Work
Request for the F-16/Z-1 Operational Flight Program (OFP) for Specified Weapons, Test Directive
Number 2671AL78, dated 23 November 1988. A final test report is reguired.

1.1 Background,

1.1.1 There is a Hq TAC requirement to verify the accuracy of the F-16IZ-1 OFP for all weapons having
updated ballistics and/or separation coefficients. Table F-1 lists weapons and configurations to be tested at
Eglin AFB under this effort:
'lhble F-1. Data on Weapons and Configurations for Test a t Eglin
Munitions Suspension F-16 MCL NO. Quantity

CBU-87 TER 132 20

CBU-87 MAU 132 22
CBU-89 TER 127 24
CBU-89 MAU 125 24
BLU-107 TER 107 6
BLU-107 MAU 164 4

1.1.2 All configurations have been flight tested and certified in T.O. lF-l6A--l except for the
BLU-l07/MAU configuration which will be covered by TY Flight Clearance 88-092. Attachment 1
contains the mission summaries, and Attachment 2 contains the data reduction worksheets to document and
coordinate flight test data. Attachment 3 contains the acceptable mass and physical properties for
munitions to be used during this test program.

1.1.3 All testing will be consistent with existing T.O. 1F-16A-1 aircraft operating procedures. Standard
-33 loading procedures and -34 aircrew procedures will be used, except for the BLU-IO'IIMAU
configuration. A local loading procedures checklist will be developed and approved for the
BLU-107IMAU configuration.

1.2 Test Objectives.

1.2.1 Collect munitions impact, dispersion, time-space-position-information (TSPI), and pilot aiming error
data on specified munitions released from F-16 aircraft with OFP Block 2:-1 software.

1.2.2 Collect data to develop a footprint database on Armament Division (AD) F-16 aircraft for BDU-33
Continuously Computed Impact Point (CCIP), Dive Toss (DTOS), and Continuously Computed Release
Point (CCRP) delivery modes for OFP Block Z-1 Software.

2.0 TEST ITEM DESCRIPTION

2.1 F-16 Primary Test Aircraft. F-16 primary test aircraft will he equipped with OFP Block Z-1
software and the Programmable Data Acquisition System (PDAS). A detailed description of the basic
F-16 aircraft is contained in T.O. 1F-16A-1.

2.2 Test Munitions. Detailed descriptions of test munitions are contained in T.O. 1F-16A-33-1-1. Inert-
filled warheads and dispensers with inert submunitions will be used if available. Live fuzing will not be
required except for dispenser openings.
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3.O INSTRUMENTATION.

No unique or special purpose instrumentation is required in support of this test. Existing ground and
airborne facilities and the capabilities identified in AD Technical Facilities Manuals p o l 1 and Vol 2) are
adequate. Applicable technical support requirements and procedures are detailed in the Technical Support
Annex (Annex B to the Test Directive).

4.0 OBJECTIVES, PROCEDURES, AND DATA

4.1 Objectives

4.1.1 Objective 1.2.1. Collect munitions impact, dispersion, time-space-position-information (TSPI), and
pilot aiming error data on specified munitions released from F-16 aircraft with OFP Block 2-1 software.

4.1.2 Objective 1.2.3. Collect data to develop a footprint database on AD F-16 aircraft for BDU-33
Continuously Computed Impact Point (CCIP), Dive Toss W S ) , and Continuously Computed Release
Point (CCRP) delivery modes for OFP Block 2-1 software.

4.2 Purpose. Time-space-position-information will be used to address weapons ballisticdtrajectory

characteristics. Weapons scoring will facilitate quantification of weapon delivery performance with
respect to a particular munition and a related delivery mode.

4.3 Method.

4.3.1 Testing will be in accordance with the attached Mission Summary. The flight parameters listed in
the Mission Summary have the following tolerances. Test tolerances are 20 KTAS, t 200 feet MSL
(must ensure safe escape), 0.5 g, and 25 degree dive. Do not exceed T.O. 1F-16A-1 limits. Testing
will occur in two phases: Production Representative Demonstration and Operational Verification.

4.3.1.1 Production Representative Demonstration. F-16A-0609 and F-16A-0761 (if available) will be
footprinted to determine total system bias. Footprinting will be accomplished by flying CCIP, DTOS, and
C C W profiles specified in the Mission Summary (see Mission No. 1). Upon completion of Mission Nos.
1 and 2, 3246 TESTW/TY personnel must review and analyze the data before proceeding to subsequent
missions.

4.3.1.2 Operational Verification. F-16 specific operation profiles have been coordinated with Hq TAC
for each configuration. Data will be collected to determine the total system accuracy for each profile of
the F-16 aircraft.

4.3.2 Aircrew executing weapon deliveries will use aircraft onboard recording to document pipperlcursor
location with respect to the target at the time of the weapon release event. Aircrew will attempt to keep
the pipper/cursor aligned with the target; however, the aircrew should not aggressively maneuver the
aircraft immediately prior to release. This will permit the weapon release computer system to function
with stabilized parameters during computations prior to weapon release. Other operational considerations
for pilots participating in this test follow.

4.3.2.1 Dive Toss (DTOS). Release altitudes refer to the altitude at which the pilot initiates the g pull-up
maneuver.

4.3.2.2 Continuously Computed Impact Point (CCIP). The aircrew should initiate a smooth pull at
briefed range to 4 g's within 2 seconds. The aircraft should be kept in a steady 4-g pull with wings level
following the steering cues. Wings will be level one second prior to release. Radar ranging will be used.

4.3.2.3 Continuously Computed Release Point (CCRP). The aircrew should initiate a smooth pull at
briefed range, to 4-gs within two seconds. The aircraft should be kept in a steady 4-g pull with wings
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level following the steering cues. Wings will be level one second prior to release. Radar ranging will be
used.

4.3.3 Weight, center of gravity, and moments of inertia (pitch and yaw) will be verified and recorded as
part of the test records for test items released from the F-16 test aircraft. Items with mass properties
different from those specified must be cleared by 3246 TESTW/TY prior to scheduling for upload on the
aircraft.

4.3.4 Approved munitions loading checklists (ref. AFSCR 66-1 and ADR 136-3) and aircrew
preflight/postflight checklists (ref. ADR 127-2 and AD Sup 1 to AFSCR 80-33) must be available prior to
the start of flight testing.

4.3.5 Meteorological records will be required as part of the ballistic data acquisition effort. The required
meteorological data are to be provided as outlined in TZP Standard 76-01. Pibal data is required within
one-half hour of actual munition releases.

4.3.6 The test flights will be conducted over authorized AD test areas using standard flight profiles under
supervision of the AD Airborne Test Review/Safety Board (ATR/SB).

4.3.7 Use of safety chase aircraft in support of weapon delivery test missions will be commensurate with
ATR/SB requirements. Aerial tanker support will be used as required to extend flight duration for the
primary andlor chase aircraft on selected test missions. Aerial photography of impact is desired to satisfy
impact data requirement.

4.3.8 An AD land test area with appropriate cinetheodolite coverage will be required for the acquisition of
ballistics data. Ground-based radar will be used as necessary to monitor, track, or position the bomb-
releasing aircraft on approved flight profiles. Radar also may be used to aid cinetheodolite acquisition for
aircrafhunition tracking purposes.

4.3.9 Tracking of the aircraft/external store combinations by time-correlated cinetheodolites (B&W, 30

f p s ) and ground-based high-speed tracking cameras (color, 96 f p s ) will be required to obtain TSPI during
the munition trajectory. Tracking of the aircraft/munition combination sb.ould commence a minimum of 3
seconds prior to the munition release event. The munition will be tracked from release, through fallaway,
to bomb ground impact or dispenser opening event, as applicable.

4.3.10 A white vertical Idfoot x 16-foot panel with radar reflector will be erected as a target marker to
facilitate early target acquisition ducing level and low angle deliverim. To facilitate assessment of
aimpoint error from optical sight camera (KB-25/A) film, distinguishable markings surrounding the target
are required. The range markings should be concentric about the target center at 50-foot intervals to a
distance of 200 feet. NOTE: Distinguishable target markings must be maintained to aid aircrew and
AD/= personnel in assessing aiming error.

4.3.11 Cluster munitions should be dropped one weapon per target, four targets per grid. A radar
reflector will be installed in the center of each target.

4.3.12 When appropriate, the test engineer may request spotting tower reports or BDU-33 bomb impacts
points. Pertinent target center coordinates are also to be provided to the test engineer.

4.3.13 In addition to safety if flight considerations, factors which are to be considered in aborting test
missions are identified below. In general, abort if any of the following coiiditions exist:

4.3.13.1 Wrong OFP's

4.3.13.2 If impact scores are unreasonably far from target (greater than 1,000 feet from target) and/or
outside range safety footprint.
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4.3.13.3 If winds gust by more than 10 knots, Le., 5 knots gusting to 15 or if wind condition is judged to
be too severe by the test engineer. Surface wind conditions will be determined by the Range Automated
Weather System (RAWS) Site 0 1 .

4.3.13.4 If onboard systems are inaccurate, i.e., poor radar ranging, or bad INS with high drift rate of
accelerometer vertical channel not properly compensating during Lm3S mode.

4.3.13.5 If EOD considerations apply, e.g., sequential failures (non-opening) of two dispensers filled with
submunitions will cause termination of a drop mission over a given target area.

4.3.14 The F-16 primary test aircraft will be visually inspected upon landing for evidence of any adverse
effects on bomb racks, pylons, or aircraft skin resulting from the release of munitions. Observed
discrepancies will be documented photographically.

4.3.15 As part of the test records, the pilot of the primary F-16 test aircraft will provide the test engineer
with a written flight test report upon completion of each bomb drop mission. Each report should include,
but not necessarily be limited to, informationlcomments on the following:

4.3.15.1 Identification of F-16 primary test aircraft, OFP software installed, flight test configuration,
including type of munitions uploaded and respective fuzdtime settings.

4.3.15.2 Deviations between planned and actual munitions release conditions, including release mode.

4.3.15.3 Apparent aiming error (HUD film review).

4.3.15.4 Problems with aircraft subsystems.

4.3.15.5 Problems with carriage and/or release of munitions, including related problems with aircraft
handling characteristics.

4.3.15.6 Postmission inspection of aircraft.

4.3.15.7 Incidents which may adversely affect aircraftlaviouics boresight alignments.

4.3.16 The test engineer will maintain flight test mission records which will include a complete
description of each aircraft flight test configuration, including bomb rack loadings, rack orifice openings,
type ejection cartridges, and munition release conditions/mode. Munition identifications will include mass
properties, the type fuzes installed, and fuze/timer settings. Results of boresight checks will be included as
part of the test records as well as results of aircraft postflight inspections after completion of a bomb drop
mission. Aircraft malfunctions, munition separation problems, or test support problems that adversely
affected the outcome of a test mission will be documented. Copies of reduced TSPI as well as copies of
plots of munition impact coordinatedpatterns and related target center coordinates should be included as
part of the test records. Still descriptive photographs will be made as directed by the test engineer to
document test munitions and aircraft flight test configurations. Copies of onboard recordings will also be
included as part of the test records.

4.3.17 The 3247th Test Squadron aircrew will:

4.3.17.1 Ensure that safety-of-flight issues are resolved prior to flight.

4.3.17.2 Review safe escape data found in T.O. IF-16A-34-1-1, Section 4, for each mission. Primary
release parameters are airspeed and dive angle while release altitude is driven by safe escape and tactical
considerations.

4.3.17.3 Perform a 13-minute INS alignment prior to taxi.

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4.3.17.4 Perform in-flight INS and radar ranging systems checks prior to releasing munitions.

4.3.17.5 Complete the PilotlTest Engineer Mission Summary Report. Review HUD video imiediately
after flight and complete the Data Reduction Worksheet, AFSC Form 4772, and draw a target area sketch
depicting aimpoint and estimated impacts per release. The exact configuration, OFP software installed,
munition fuze and timer settings, aiming error, etc., must be accurately documented. Approximate impact
scores from spotting towers or testlsupport aircraft will be included in the AFSC Form 4772 and updated
by the test engineer once more when accurate data is available.

4.3.17.6 Report to the test engineer any hard landings which may misalign the aircraft's boresight.

4.3.17.7 Report any aircraft system errors, especially INS anomalies, on the data reduction worksheet and
to the test engineer. Include INS debrief data with report, if applicable.

4.4 Criteria,

4.4.1 A pass condition for a weapons delivery mission is defined as all events related to a particular
weapon delivery mode function in accordance with pre-defined sequence. A fail condition results if:

4.4.1.1 All events do not occur.

4.4.1.2 All events occur but are not in proper sequence.

4.4.1.3 More events occur than should have (even if there is no adverse system impact).

4.4.2 The criteria for success of the overall weapon delivery flight test is the acquisition of sufficient
quantitative data and qualitative information to establish baseline weapon system delivery performance for
the selected munitions and test conditions.

4.5 Resources Required. Principal resource requirements related to acquisition of ballistics data on
munitions release from F-16 primary test aircraft will include:

4.5.1 F-16 primary test aircraft equipped with PDAS. Technical Order -99 INS calibrations must be
performed monthly. Also, it must be verified that camera control and RBS beacon tone circuitry do not
alter the standard release pulse timing sequence generated by the OFP and FCC.

4.5.2 Chase aircraft (commensurate with ATWSB requirement).

4.5.3 Aerial tanker support.

4.5.4 Test munitions and associated equipment as listed in the attachments.

4.5.5 3246th MMS Load Crews

4.5.6 Munition handlinghploading equipment.

4.5.7 Munition PMF (Etldg 990).

4.5.8 Authorized land test area with cinetheodolite and associated ground high speed motion ]picture
coverage. Spotting tower support. Bomb scoring.

4.5.9 Targets (white, 16-foot x 16-foot vertical panels with radar reflectors) including target coordinates
(latitude and longitude).

4.5.10 Meteorological support (ref. TZP Standard 76-01).

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4.5.11 CCF (test engineer - Ground/air test communicationdcontrol).

4.5.12 Still documentaryldescriptive photography.

4.6 Data Records. Principal test records (data source) will be:

4.6.1 Cinethwdolite film.

4.6.2 High speed ground camera film.

4.6.3 Radar TSPI (when applicable).

4.6.4 Munitions ground impact measurements (copy to KR).

4.6.5 Target center coordinates (copy to KR).

4.6.6 Onboard recordings (copy to KR).

4.6.7 Postmission inspection results (aircraft).

4.6.8 Meteorological records (copy to KR).

4.6.9 Munition mass properties records (copy to TYDB).

4.6.10 F-16 pilot flight test mission reports (copy to TY).

4.6.11 Test engineer test records.

4.6.12 Still descriptive photographs.

4.6.13 F-16 PDAS printout (copy to TY).

4.7 Data Reduction/Analysis. Principal requirements follow:

4.7.1 Cinetheodolite and related high-speed ground camera film will be reduced to provide ballistics data
in accordance with AD/KR procedure and format, as related to TZP Standard 76-01, dated 2 Sep 86.
(Output origin axis should be rotated to align with aircraft ground track at munition release.) Three copies
of reduced data will be provided to 3246 TW/TYDB. m: Cinethwdolite and related high-speed
ground camera film associated with gross misses (+ 1000 feet) should be retained for purpose of flow field
assessment.

4.7.2 Onboard recordings will require assessment to establish pipper placement with respect to ground
target (aim point error) at bomb release event.

4.7.3 In conjunction with the reduced ballistics data, 3246 TW/TYDB requires a data worksheet for each
bomb release event. ADIKRnR, the test engineer and the test pilot will provide timely inputs for
completion of data sheets.

4.7.4 The test engineer's flight test records and F-16 pilots flight test reports will be used as required to
provide inputs for the data reduction and to corroborate test item deficiencies, aircraft system
malfunctions, or test support problems that adversely affected test results.

4.7.5 Final analysis of collected test data to validate the performance of the F-16 weapon delivery system
using F-16 2-1 OFP ballistics software by correlation and analysis of munition impacts, dispersion, and
pilot aiming error will be the responsibility of 3246 TW/TY. The integration of pertinent test data into the
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freestream database related to T.O. 1F-16-34 ballistics tables will also be the responsibility of the 3246
TWiTY as well as assessments of any effects due to the position of a given munition in the aircraft's
flowfield.

4.8 Summary of Mission. Ref. Attachment 1 to this annex.

4.9 Potential Hazards. No safety hazards are envisioned that would elevate risks above those normally
associated with aircraft/munition separation flight test investigations, Le., not categorized as high risk
flight test missions (ADR 127-2).

5.0 Interim Test Reviews (Ref. TZ 01 80-4. Test progress reviews will be accomplished by the test
engineer if any one of the following events occurs: unsatisfactory data acquisition, safety problems, or test
item deficiencies which dictate that testing should be suspended or discontinued.
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DELMODE CCRP REQUIRED 3N SEPARATE GRIDS
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AFT LOOKING SWAS): 540 rspi ww AIR PHOTOS OF

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NEANGLE: -20 76-01
W O N S TO BE DROPPED
3EQUIRED )N SEPARATE GRIDS
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TIMERSRTING: 4.0SEC
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ALT(AGL): 4500' TZP STD IMPACTS REQUIRED
76-01
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1 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 1 8 1 9 -SINGLE RELEASE PDAS
TIMER S E " G : 4.0 SEC
SEE MISSION 1 2
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AFT LOOMNG TSPl IAW AIR PHOTOS OF

AIS (WAS): 480
rzp sm IMPACTS REQUIRED
7601
WEAPONS TO BE DROPPED
REQUIRED ON SEPARATE GRIDS

SINGLERELEASE
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LOAD FACTOR: 0.944 WEAPONS TO BE DROPPED
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SINGLE RELEASE
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TIMER SETTING: 4.0 SEC
SEE MISSION 1 4

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TECHNICAL SUPPORT ANNEX

TEST DIRECTIVE NO. 2671AL78
F-16/Z-1 OFP VERIFICATION

1. w. This test program is to verify the delivery accuracy of the Z-1 OFP while employing
CBU-87, CBU-89, and BLU-107 munitions. Support will be required from these organizations:
Photographic Support (Photolab Contractor), Operations Support (DOUP), Meteorological Support
(ADNE), Mathematical Computation (AD/KR), Engineering Support (TFR, TFE), and the Range
O&M Contractor.

2. S U D D O ~~
Reauirements and Resuonsibilities.

a. Photograobic S u u ~ o r t .The Photolab Contractor will:

(1)Provide a still photographer to expose up to 200 color negatives of selected aircraft/weapon

configurations and make up to four 8- x 10-inch prints of selected negatives.

(2)Mount and service the onboard cameras on the F-16 aircraft to cover munitions release and
fallaway. GADS data are required.

(3)Receive and process the aerial film exposed by DOUP and the high-speed tracking camera film
and cinetheodolite film exposed by the Range O&M Contractor.

b. Oaerations Suuuort. DOUP will provide a photographer in the photochase plane and/or the UH-1
helicopter to photograph the munitions release and fallaway from the mission F-16 aircraft and
photograph the submunition impact pattern in the target area. Operate these cameras with color
film at 200 frames per second and/or a frame rate from the helicopter to obtain good resolution of
the impacts.

c. Meteorological S U O U OA~ ~D. N E will:

(1)Provide the weather parameters from the readings nearest the mission time to include wind
speed and direction, temperature, humidity, pressure, and density.

(2) Coordinate the release of a pibal for track by the Contraves cinetheodolites within 30 minutes
post mission.

d. Eneineerine S U U D O ~ ~ .

(1)TFE will preflight the PDAS and HUD video on the scheduled F-16 aircraft.

(2)TFR will provide the 16-foot x 16-foot vertical white target panels with a radar reflector
centered on each panel facing the aircraft approach heading. The target for submunition drops
should be marked with concentric circles at %-foot intervals out to 200 feet from target center.

e. Mathematical Comautation. AD/KR will reduce and analyze the cinetheodolite film to obtain TSPI
on the delivery aircraft to release and the munition from release to function and/or impact. Rotate
the data to aircraft ground track at munition release. Reduce the pibal track to obtain wind data for
the ballistic calculation. Provide plot and orientation data for the submunition patterns scored by
the O&M Contractor.

f. Range S U O D OThe
~ ~ . O&M Contractor will:

(1)Provide range support with safety and communications for the scheduled test ares. On test areas
where available, provide spotting tower support to determine munition impact position relative
to the target.
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(2) Operate up to four cinetheodolites to track the mission aircraft to release and the munition from
release to function and/or ground impact. Operate the cameras at 30 frames per second for this
portion of the track and track a pibal to mission altitude plus 500 feet within 30 minutes post
mission at 10 frames per second.

(3) Set up a tracking mount with two 35" cameras operation at 96 frames per second with color
film, one camera with an 80-inch lens and one with a 32-inch lens, to track the mission aircraft
to release and the test item from release to function andlor impact.

(4)Provide target support as requested by TFR to assure a good 16-foot x l6-foot target with radar
reflector for each munition release.

(5)Operate the low-level-sounder weather equipment on the MAWS when scheduled to provide
wind data within 30 minutes of the scheduled mission time. Winds at the mission altitude are
required. Wind gusts are of interest when in excess of 10 knots. Calculate deviations in wind
speed and direction using RHAWS data at 60 samples per minute (spm) with outputs each
minute.

(6)Provide scoring relative to the target for all munitions released when requested by the Test
Engineer. Score submunition patterns.

3, Data Classification. Authority: F-16 Security Classification Guide.

a. Tracking Accuracy: Air-to-Ground - detection range of the AN/APG-68 radar -

CONFIDENTIAL, declassify on OADR.

b. Any data (TSPI, etc) which reveals "a" above - CONFIDENTIAL, declassify on OADR.

c. Specific frequency and frequency band, frequency separation between channels, wide-band- or
narrow-band-commanded frequencies, and first local oscillator frequency of ANiAPG-68 radar -
SECRET, declassify on OADR.

RALPH..I PARRETT
Chief, Technical Support Branch
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Annex 1

AGARD Flight Test Instrumentation and Flight Test Techniques Series

1. Volumes in the AGARD Flight Test Instrumentation Series, AGARDngraph 160

Volume Publication
Tide Dare
Number

1. Basic Principles of Flight Test Instrumentation Engineering 1974

by A.Pool and D.Bosman (under revision)

2. In-Flight Temperature Measurements 1973

by ETrenkle and M.Reinhardt

3. The Measurement of Fuel Flow 1972

by J.T.France

4. The Measurement of Engine Rotation Speed 1973

by M.Vedrunes

5. Magnetic Recording of Flight Test Data 1974

by G.E.Bennett

6. Open and Closed Loop Accelerometers 1974

by LMclaren

7. Strain Gauge Measurements on Aircraft 197h

by E.Kottkamp, H.Wilhelm and D.Kohl

8. Linear and Angular Position Measurement of Aircraft Components 1977

by J.C.van der Linden and H.A.Mensink

9. Aeroelastic Flight Test Techniques and Instrumentation 1979

by J.W.G.van Nunen and GPiazzoli

10. Helicopter Flight Test Instrumentation 1980

by K.R.Ferrell

11. Pressure and Flow Measurement 1980

by W.Wuest

12. Aircraft Flight Test Data Processing - A Review of the State of the Art 1980
by L.J.Smith and N.O.Mattbews

13. Practical Aspects of Instrumentation System Installation 1981

by R.W.Borek

14. The Analysis of Random Data 1981

by D.A.Williams

15. Gyroscopic Instruments and their Application to Flight Testing 1982

by BStieler and H.Winter

16. Trajectory Measurements for Take-off and Landing Test and Other Short-Range Applications 1985
by P. de Benque d'Agut, H.Riebeek and A.Pool

17. Analogue Signal Conditioning for Flight Test Instrumentation 1986

by D.W.Veatch and R.K.Bogue

18. Microprocessor Applications in Airborne Flight Test Instrumentation 1987

by M.J.Pnckett

19. Digital Signal Conditioning for Flight Test 1991

by G.A.Bever
Annex-1-2

2. Volumes in the AGARD Flight Test Techniques Series

Publicuiion
Number Title
Dute

AG237 Guide to In-Flight Thrust Measurement of Turbojets and Fan Engines by the MIDAP 1979
Study Group (UK)

The remaining volumes are published as a sequence of Volume Numbers of AGARDograph 300.

Volirnie Publicurion
Title Dute
Number

1. Calibration of Air-Data Systems and Flow Direction Sensors 1983

by J.A.Lawford and K.R.Nippress

2. Identification of Dynamic Systems 1985

by R.E.Maine and K.W.1liff

3. Identification of Dynamic Systems - Applications to Aircraft 1986

Part 1: The Output Error Approach
by R E M a i n e and K.W.Iliff

4. Dctcrmination of Antenna Patterns and Radar Reflcction Characteristics of Aircraft I986

by H.Bothe and D.McDonald

5. Store Separation Flight Testing I986

by R.J.xrnold and C.S.Epsrein

6. Developmental Airdrop Testing Techniques and Devices 1987

by H.J.Hunter

7. Air-to-Air Radar Flight Testing 1Y88

by R.E:Scott

8. Flight Testing under Extreme Environmental Conditions 1988

by CLHenrickson

9. Aircraft Exterior Noise Measurement and Analysis Techniques 1991

by H.Heller

10. Weapon Dclivcry Analysis and Ballistic Flight Testing 1992

by R.J.Arnold and J.B.Knight

At the time of publication of the present volume the following volumes were in preparation:

Identification of Dynamic Systems. Applications to Aircraft

Part 2 : Nonlinear Model Analysis and Manoeuvre Design
by J.A.Mulder and J.H.Breeman

Flight Testing of Terrain Following Systcms

by C.Dallimore and M.K.Foster

Reliability and Maintainability

by J.Howell

Testing of Flight Critical Control Systems on Helicoptcrs

by J.D.L.Gregory

Flight Testing of Air-to-Air Refuelling of Fixed Wing Aircraft

by %Bradley and KEmerson

Introduction to Flight Test Engineering

Edited by EStoliker

Space System Testing

by A.Wisdom
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Annex 2

Available Flight Test Handbooks

This annex is presented to make readers aware of handbooks that are available on a variety of flight test subjects not necessarily
related to the contents of this volume. It is not necessarily a full listing of such documents.

Requests for A & A E E documents should be addressed to the DefenceResearch Information Centre, Glasgow (see back cover).
Requests for US documents should be addressed to the Defence Technical Information Center, Cameron Station, Alexandria,
VA 22314 (or in one case, the Library of Congress).

Number Author Title Dute

AFFTC-TIH-88-004 Hendrickson, C.L Flight Testing Under Extreme Climatic Conditions 1988

AFFTC-TIM-75- 11 Pihlgren, W.D. Aircraft Vertical Center of Gravity Determination Using 1975
the Ground Inclination Method

AFFTC-TIH-84- 1 Lush, K.J. Electrical Subsystems Flight Test Handbook 1984

AFFTC-TIH-83-2 Lush, K.L. Hydraulic Subsystems Flight Test Handbook 1983

AFFTC-TIH-82-2 Lush, K.L. Environmental Control Subsystems Flight Test Handbook 1982

AFFTC-TIH-81-6 Jones, L.W. Development of Curves for Estimating Aircraft Arresting 1982
Hook Loads

NATC-TM-79-33SA Chapin,P.W. A Comprehensive Approach to ln-Flight Thrust 1980

Determination

NATC-TM-79-3SY Schiflett, S.G. Voice Stress Analysis as a Measure of Operator 1980

Loikith, G.J. Workload

NASA-CR-3406 Bennett, R.L. and Handbook on Aircraft Noise Metrics 1981

Pearsons, K.S.

- Pilot's Handbook for Critical and Exploratory Flight 1972

Testing. (Sponsored by AIAA & SETP - Library of
Congress Card No.76-189165)

A & A E E Performance Division Handbook of Test

Methods for assessing the flying Qualities and Performance
of Military Aircraft. Vol.1 Airplanes (A& 9 1989)

A&AEENote2111 Appleford, J.K Performance Division: Clearance Philosophies for Fixed 1978
Wing Aircraft

A & AEE Note 2113 Norris, E.J. Test Methods and Flight Safety Procedures for Aircraft 1980
(Issue 2 ) Trials Which May Lead to Departures from Controlled
Flight

A & AEE ARM 1014/03 - A & A E E Armament Division Handbook of Test Methods
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