Digital Computer Equipment for an Advanced Bombing, Navigation and Missile Guidance Subsystem for the B-70 Air Vehicle

Transistorized, high-speed, general-purpose digital computing equipment has been designed as the primary airborne real-time calculating element for the advanced bombing, navigation, and missile guidance subsystem intended for use in the B-70 air vehicle. Because of the critical nature of this application, reliability, maintainability, and flexibility requirements received the utmost consideration in every design phase. Maximum reliability was achieved primarily through the use of a powerful, versatile, parallel main computer section supported by a minimal serial, emergency computer. A new approach to fault location enhances computer maintainability and permits in-flight repair, while flexibility is achieved by means of unique, high-speed input-output processing equipment.