Reducing the Logistics Burden for the Army After Next: Doing More with Less by National Research Council

Author:National Research Council
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Conflict and Security Issues : Military and Defense Studies
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 1999-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

Precision Guided Munitions

Whatever launch technology is used, the critical element for hitting the target with every indirect-fired round is precision guidance of the projectile to its aim point. The opening section of this chapter on SA described some of the enabling technologies for precision guided munitions. These technologies can be integrated into different guidance regimes. In some regimes, the target is identified and tracked, aim-point control data for the projectile are computed either at the launch platform or at a target designator located separately from the launch platform, and the projectile and the control data are transmitted to the projectile. For a fast-moving battle force, however, the most useful guidance regimes are those that provide "fire and forget" capability. This means that, at some point during the flight to the target, the components of the projectile itself take over the functions of acquiring and tracking the target and computing path corrections.

Figure 6-3

Major BAT subsystems.

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