MTR Flashcards
What do you need to think about when designing a weapon?
What is the target? Where is the target? What do you want to do to it? How can you achieve that?
What types of target are there?
Personnel, Vehicles, Structures, Ships, Air Targets, Equipment
What characteristic does MBT have when looking to defeat it?
Perforation - Heavily armoured at front, Less well armoured top sides and bottom.
Blast - Very resistant if closed down, Large blast beneath vehicle is effective
What to consider when targeting Hard structures?
Make up of the structure (Monolithic - Many meters of concrete, Layered - Several separate thin layers of concrete, Combination of the two), Where to detonate, Collateral damage
What are the characteristics of ships?
Huge range of sizes from 2,800 tonnes - 100,000 tonmes, high buoyancy, bulkheads 10-30mm thick, assume average compartment volumen 100m^3, require to flood 3 compartments to destroy buoyancy
What is the construction makeup of a submarine?
Huge range of size, relatively small volume within inner hull, little reserve buoyancy, outer hull may provide good protection
What do you need to consider when targetting aircraft (helicopters and planes) ?
Minor damage can cause platform loss - eventually, serious damage required for immediate loss, speed of taget and possible altitude (manoeuvrable missle, close approach, close warhead fuze matching)
What effects do you want on the target?
DEstory, defeat, neutralize, disrupt, fix, block, suppress, Lethal Kill, Incapacitate, supress, F Kill- fire power kill, MKill - Mobility kill, KKill - Catastrophic kill (complete loss of the target) Ckill - Comms kill, Akill - Acqiosotopm system kill
What is accuracy?
The ability of a weapon system to place the Mean Point of Impact (MPI) of a series of rounds on a give point or accuarcy is the distance betrween the aiming point and the actual point, and precision is the range of points
What is consistency/precision?
The degree of dispersion of that series of rounds about the MPI (the ability to repeatedly hit the same point)
What is the weapon Designer’s dilemma?
Should size and wight of guidance be increased to reduce dispersion, or should the payload be increased to reduce critical damage at the greater miss distance.
What is essential for energy coupling?
It is essential that as much energy as reasonable be left in the target as in a soft skin veh a long rod penetrator can pass through causing very little damage other than puncture holes.
What do you need to know when looking at a target vulnerabilities?
The characteristics of the target, the engagement scenario, the characteristics of the warhead, estimated damage level
What to think about when thinking about warhead design?
Do we need a warhead? Is the kinetic energy of the missile adequate? Can we guarantee a hit?
What factors affect warhead performance?
Efficiency of energy coupling to target, dispersion, attenuation, damage volume propagation
What is the make up of a missle?
Warhead, Delivery systems, fuzing system
What are the design considerations of a missle?
The intended target, the level of desired damage, means of delivery, cost, service life
What are the types of warheads of a missle?
Blast, Fragmenting, directed explosive energy, others (kinetic energy, CBRN)
How do you defeat a threat from a munition?
Determine the threat against which protection is required, understand your failure mechanisms, consider armour application and materials (Passive systems, Reactive systems)
What are the parts of the survivability onion?
Dont be - There, identified, aquired, engaged, hit, penetrated, affected
What are the key points of dont be there?
Situation awareness, remote systems ( using UAVs, Co-operative action, stand off weapons
What are the key points of dont be seen?
Situation awareness, tactics, stealth
What are the key points about dont be acquired?
Camouflage, jamming, Dectection (8 pixels), Reconition (16 pixels), Identification (32 pixels)
What are the key points of dont be hit?
Manoeuvre, Defensive Aid Suites (DAS)
