Precision Stabilization Requirements for Long-Range Acquisition Systems
Abstract
Presently Army systems are under development to perform long-range engagement of tank type targets with Antitank Guided Missiles (ATGM) from heliborne platforms. This gives rise to the requirement for systems to perform long-range target acquisition. In order to recognize a tank target from low altitudes (nap-of-the-earth), at long standoff ranges, and under realistic battlefield conditions, a number of complex system design problems must be solved. High acuity electro-optical sensors which are needed to achieve recognition criteria require precision inertial stabilization of the line-of-sight (LOS). This problem is particularly difficult when the mission is performed under the dynamic environment of an attack helicopter. Various LOS stabilization concepts have been investigated to determine their relative merits with respect to meeting the precision stabilization performance requirement.
- Publication:
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System aspects of electro-optics
- Pub Date:
- October 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.965579
- Bibcode:
- 1979SPIE..187...90B
- Keywords:
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- Antitank Missiles;
- Missile Control;
- Missile Ranges;
- Remote Sensors;
- Target Acquisition;
- Complex Systems;
- Electro-Optical Effect;
- Inertial Guidance;
- Systems Analysis;
- Instrumentation and Photography