Missile airframe simulation testbed: MANPADS (MAST-M) for test and evaluation of aircraft survivability equipment

Jim Clements; Richard Robinson; Leslie Bunt; Joe Robinson

doi:10.1117/12.884656

13 May 2011 Missile airframe simulation testbed: MANPADS (MAST-M) for test and evaluation of aircraft survivability equipment

Jim Clements, Richard Robinson, Leslie Bunt, Joe Robinson

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Proceedings Volume 8015, Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop XVI; 80150A (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884656
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

A number of techniques have been utilized to evaluate the performance of Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) against threat Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS). These techniques include flying actual threat MANPADS against stationary ASE with simulated aircraft signatures, testing installed ASE systems against simulated threat signatures, and laboratory hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) testing with simulated aircraft and simulated missile signatures. All of these tests lack the realism of evaluating installed ASE against in-flight MANPADS on a terminal homing intercept path toward the actual ASE equipped aircraft. This limitation is due primarily to the current inability to perform non-destructive MANPADS/Aircraft flight testing. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research and Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) is working to overcome this limitation with the development of a recoverable surrogate MANPADS missile system capable of engaging aircraft equipped with ASE while guaranteeing collision avoidance with the test aircraft. Under its Missile Airframe Simulation Testbed - MANPADS (MAST-M) program, the AMRDEC is developing a surrogate missile system which will utilize actual threat MANPADS seeker/guidance sections to control the flight of a surrogate missile which will perform a collision avoidance and recovery maneuver prior to intercept to insure non-destructive test and evaluation of the ASE and reuse of the MANPADS seeker/guidance section. The remainder of this paper provides an overview of this development program and intended use.

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Jim Clements, Richard Robinson, Leslie Bunt, and Joe Robinson "Missile airframe simulation testbed: MANPADS (MAST-M) for test and evaluation of aircraft survivability equipment", Proc. SPIE 8015, Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop XVI, 80150A (13 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884656

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