Advances in tactical weapon guidance through GPS
Abstract
The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based navigation system which serves users equipped with GPS receivers. A description is presented of a unique GPS receiver design known as the advanced digital receiver (ADR). The ADR is a highly integrated microprocessor-based GPS receiver. It employs a signal tracking scheme based on multiplexing. The technique provides maximum performance for each receiver channel used so that a single-channel multiplexing set can outperform multiple channel sets which do not multiplex. These advantages make the ADR uniquely suited to weapon guidance. It is pointed out that GPS-equipped weapon platforms are more effective than nonequipped platforms. Additional advantages can be realized when the platform's weapons are also GPS-equipped. Weapon effectiveness improvements are considered, taking into account prelaunch advantages, launch phase advantages, midcourse advantages, and the use of the GPS for weapon development.
- Publication:
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NTC 1981; National Telecommunications Conference, Volume 3
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981ntc.....3Q...9R
- Keywords:
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- Global Positioning System;
- Guidance (Motion);
- Multichannel Communication;
- Navstar Satellites;
- Radio Receivers;
- Weapon System Management;
- Digital Systems;
- Electronic Control;
- Microprocessors;
- Multiplexing;
- Tracking Problem;
- Weapons Development;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking