Title :
Computing the lethality of a ballistic projectile
Author_Institution :
Gen. Electr. Co., Moorestown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
One of the observations made over and over in the operation Desert Storm was the need to know the lethality of ballistic projectiles in the sky. One such measure is of the ballistic coefficient of the object. With this number one can distinguish a man in a parachute, debris, “lethal debris”, a bomb, a missile, a plane, … etc. This article addresses a mathematical approach that can be used to compute the ballistic coefficient
Keywords :
aerospace computing; measurement errors; military computing; missiles; projectiles; signal processing; Desert Storm; ballistic coefficient; ballistic projectile; ballistic track; bomb; energy dissipation algorithm; kinematic equation; lethal debris; lethality; measurement error; parachute; radar; risk; Energy dissipation; Equations; Kinematics; Missiles; Projectiles; Robustness; Sea level; Sea measurements; Storms; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1993. NAECON 1993., Proceedings of the IEEE 1993 National
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1295-3
DOI :
10.1109/NAECON.1993.290923
