Download or read book Infrared Systems for Tactical Aviation written by George B. Hept and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary development is based on using continuous experimentation and adaptation in changing circumstances to reward success, while allowing, but eventually eliminating, failure, Since this approach is agile, flexible, quick reacting, and thrives on change, it contrasts with strategic planning in which systems are developed in a planned and orderly fashion to meet future requirements. A planned system is rigid, slow to react, and resists or ignores change, which contrasts with how the military traditionally develops weapon systems. One word that distinguishes between evolutionary and planned development is "chaos." Chaos, like risk, is unavoidable, and hence should be managed rather than avoided. Indeed, a certain degree of chaos is desirable because it generates the necessary set of adaptations and ideas that can eventually be "selected" for evolutionary improvement. The Darwinian concept of "survival of the fittest" can be applied to ideas, systems, and organizations that seek to maintain a competitive advantage.

Download or read book Infrared Systems for Tactical Aviation written by George B. Hept and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evolution in Military Affairs The Chaotic Development of Infrared Systems for Tactical Aviation written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of using natural evolution as an analogy for how modem organizations can adapt to a chaotic, rapidly changing world situation is currently in vogue in the business world. This paper will examine whether the chaotic evolutionary development model is pertinent to the US military's attempt to adapt to the uncertain national security environment of the post Cold War world. The paper will look at the historical example of the development of infrared (IR) systems for tactical aviation in order to see how the natural evolution model can be applied to the development of military systems. The evolutionary development of IR systems will be 'benchmarked' against the more traditional planned development of radar systems. The theme of the paper is that the chaotic evolutionary development of IR systems has been successful and has had a significant effect on the current state of air operations. The general conclusion of the paper is that the natural evolution development model has many analogies to the way IR systems were developed and employed and contains many useful insights to consider for future development. Understanding this analogy and its limits may hold the key for developing a more flexible development system that will be better able to adapt to the uncertain security environment of the future. In the epilogue, the paper will address how such evolutionary development might be applied to the attempt to plan an information-based Revolution in Military Affairs.

Download or read book Evolution in Military Affairs The Chaotic Development of Infrared Systems for Tactical Aviation written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of using natural evolution as an analogy for how modem organizations can adapt to a chaotic, rapidly changing world situation is currently in vogue in the business world. This paper will examine whether the chaotic evolutionary development model is pertinent to the US military's attempt to adapt to the uncertain national security environment of the post Cold War world. The paper will look at the historical example of the development of infrared (IR) systems for tactical aviation in order to see how the natural evolution model can be applied to the development of military systems. The evolutionary development of IR systems will be 'benchmarked' against the more traditional planned development of radar systems. The theme of the paper is that the chaotic evolutionary development of IR systems has been successful and has had a significant effect on the current state of air operations. The general conclusion of the paper is that the natural evolution development model has many analogies to the way IR systems were developed and employed and contains many useful insights to consider for future development. Understanding this analogy and its limits may hold the key for developing a more flexible development system that will be better able to adapt to the uncertain security environment of the future. In the epilogue, the paper will address how such evolutionary development might be applied to the attempt to plan an information-based Revolution in Military Affairs.

Download or read book Tactical Infrared Systems written by Jerry W. Tuttle and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Infrared System Engineering written by Richard D. Hudson and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2006-10-13 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic opens with a history of the development of the infrared portion of the spectrum, probes the system engineering process, and then examines the characteristics of the successful system engineer. The next eleven chapters delve deeply into the elements of infrared technology. Chapter 13 explains the functional relationships between the various system elements and the effects of their interactions when assembled into a system. In Chapter 14 the reader is invited to watch the development of an infrared search system for commercial jet transports. Part II contains an in-depth treatment of the applications of infrared techniques to the solution of military, industrial, medical, and scientific problems. It contains nearly 1400 annotated references to the infrared literature of the world. The annotations summarize the content, describe the hardware, details its performance and examine the significant results. The references are carefully arranged, extensively indexed, and does not contain citations to the classified or report literature, a feature appreciated by most readers. For those readers having the necessary credentials, Appendix 4 is a guide to the unpublished and classified literature of the infrared.

Download or read book Infrared Military Systems written by Aerojet-General Corporation. Electronics Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conceptual Design of a Multifunction Infrared Radar for the Tactical Aircraft Ground Attack Scenario written by Robert C. Harney and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report we examine the feasibility of a multifunction infrared radar for use in a close air support attack senario. First, the characteristics of infrared radars are compared with those of FLIRs and conventional radars. From this comparison it was determined that there was no a priori reason shy a single system could not perform a variety of functions. Among these are terrain avoidance imaging, MIT target acquisition, target identification (active and passive imaging), target designation, and fire control. Based on this reasoning a systems concept was developed and a baseline system was designed. Novel features of this baseline system include a dual array of heterodyne and direct detectors, the use of specially-shaped laser pulses for time-shared range and Doppler analysis, and a quasi-three-dimensional display obtained by coding the range information into a color scale. The signal-to-noise and signal-to-clutter ratios of the baseline system were calculated and performance was found to be appropriate for the defined mission. (Author).

Download or read book Modeling Performance of an Airborne Infrared Sensor Used by a Man in the Loop in Tactical Aircraft During Daylight Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance of a man-in-the-loop using an IR sensor in a tactical aircraft, in daylight, is severely limited by the cockpit display. Any FLIR performance prediction model that fails to take the display effects into account will yield very optimistic results. The best monochromatic tactical aircraft displays are contrast limited during daylight operations and are able to reproduce only a fraction of the available dynamic range of current generation IR imaging sensors. Polychromatic cockpit displays used to view imagery limit daylight performance even further.

Download or read book Principles of Infrared Technology written by John Lester Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about general infrared (IR) engineering, technology, practices, and principles as they apply to modem imaging systems. An alternative title to this book with appeal to managers and marketing personnel might be "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Infrared Sensors, but Couldn't Get Answers on from Engineers." This book is not meant to be a comprehensive compendium of IR (like the Infrared and Electro Optical Systems Handbook). Rather, it is intend ed to complement such texts by providing up to date information and pragmatic knowledge that is difficult to locate outside of periodicals. The information contained in this book is critical in the day-to-day life of en gineering practitioners, proposal writers, and those on the periphery of an IR pro gram. It serves as a guide for engineers wishing to "catch up," engineers new to the field, managers, students, administrators, and technicians. It is also useful for seasoned IR engineers who want to review recent technological developments.

Download or read book Tactical Infrared Systems written by Jerry W. Tuttle and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Infrared Technology in Military Matters written by I͡U︡. A. Ivanov and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Basic ideas about radiation Sources of radiation Propagation of radiation energy in the atmosphere Optical materials and optical systems Optical systems Receivers of radiation energy Image converters Support of combat actions Intelligence with the help of infrared rays Heat-direction finding systems Thermal heads of homing guidance system Effectiveness and range of instruments of infrared technology Counteraction to infrared means of an enemy.

Download or read book Tactical Helicopter Missions written by Kevin P. Means and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2007 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Criminal Justice Review In honor of Dr. Richard J. Terrill, Professor of Criminal Justice, Georgia State University.

Download or read book Guide for Airborne Infrared Roof Moisture Surveys written by Lewis Edward Link and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pre Flight Physics Based Infrared Synthetic Scene Simulation for Army Aviation Mission Enhancement written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviators rely heavily on Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) imagery. Weather impacted terrain and targets significantly impedes an aircrew's ability to navigate and to rapidly and accurately detect and identify targets. Weather degradation increases target acquisition and identification times, subjecting the aircraft and crew to increased exposure to enemy threats and counterattacks, ultimately decreasing system lethality and survivability. The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), the Air Force Research Agency (AFRA) and the U.S. Army Aviation Test Directorate, Operational Test Command tested the utility of the Infrared Target-scene Simulation Software (IRTSS) System as a mission planning and rehearsal tool for AH-64 Apache attack aviation. IRTSS translates information dominance into readily assimilated situational awareness by fusing tactical intelligence with weather intelligence. Increased situational awareness mitigates risk. and improves aircrew/aircraft lethality and survivability. The IRTSS software running in a commercial web browser generated FLIR scenes for the AH- 64 Target Acquisition Detection Site (TAD S) providing a mechanism for systematically accounting for weather and weather-related effects on the terrain. This technology optimizes for both the anticipated tactical situation and environmental conditions. Using control and test groups of Army aviators, we tested the improvements IRTSS brings to ranking Battle Position (BP) in comparison to using hard copy maps and the Aviation Mission Planning System (AMPS). The tests also measured the change in target detection times using live TADS video following previews of IRTSS scenes.

Download or read book Development of Tactical Decision Aids for 6 12 mm Infrared Systems written by U.S. Air Force Geophysics Laboratory and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State of The Art Reports on Infrared Technology written by Environmental research inst of michiganann arbor and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State-of-the-Art Reports (SOARs) are detailed treatises summarizing the current status of research, development and technology in military infrared and electro-optical systems. These systems are essential for surveillance, pilotage, target acquisition, precision guidance, night vision and a number of other applications germane to survival and success on modern air, land, sea and space battlefields. SOARs provide timely, up to date information on specific warfare technologies to system designers, planners and other executive elements within the military and aerospace communities. Of specific value is critical information relevant to the acquisition of IR/EO systems for inclusion into the operational inventory. Knowing the current state of research and development is crucial to prudent weapons procurement decisions. ERIM proposes herein to conduct state-of-the-art reviews on four IR/EO technology areas critical to military superiority in the strategic and tactical areas: Focal Plane Arrays, Infrared Search and Track Systems (IRST), Forward Looking Infrared Systems (FLIR) and Signature Simulation and Modelling.