Real-time simulator evaluation of interactive control of a supersonic missile

The design and test work done to develop a real-time simulator to allow investigation of the ability of a weapons operator to use displayed imagery to accomplish target identification, aimpoint refinement, or abort at closing rates exceeding Mach 2 is described. The simulation, which represents an air-launched missile automatically homing on a designated ship target is described. In addition, results of human factors evaluations are discussed. Results of this work show that a weapons operator has adequate time to refine the aimpoint or change the aimpoint to another ship, or abort if necessary.