5) Trial Conjurator 2

Report on the Trial to Integrate a GPS
GPS Based ACMI onto the Tornado B d ACMI t th T
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F3/GR4, Harrier & Jaguar
F3/GR4 Harrier & Jaguar
Trial Conjurator
Trial Conjurator 2 ‐
2 ‐ RAIDS
Sqn Ldr Adrian S Rycroft
BSc(Eng), MRAeS, PGCPsy
Lecture Content
Lecture Content
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Overview of a ‘Fixed Range ACMI’
Overview of the ‘Range‐less
Overview of the Range less ACMI
ACMI’ (RAIDS)
(RAIDS)
Trial Objectives
Aircraft integration
Missile Modelling Tool & Security
Missile Modelling Tool & Security
Trial Program
Results
Fixed
Fixed Range ACMI
Range ACMI
ACMI Range
CENTRAL
PROCESSOR
DEBRIEF
CABIN
ACMI Range
ACMI Range
New Technology
New Technology
• Global Positioning System (Sat GPS)
Gl b l P iti i S t
(S t GPS)
– No reliance on ground station triangulation.
– Universal timing.
– DTED & Dobs data available from GPWS
DTED & Dobs data available from GPWS
• Laser Inertial Nav Platforms.
• Digital ‘on‐board’ processing.
– Explosion in high fidelity simulation (games)
• High Band‐Width Digital Data‐Links
– No need for ground‐station processing
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INTERNAL
PROCESSOR
DEBRIEF
CABIN
New Capability
BVR & IAI (Marconi)
• ACMI performance ‘rangeless’
– Live, Live A
Live Live A‐to‐A
to A Weapon Simulation, Replay.
Weapon Simulation Replay
• Collision Warning
– Air‐to‐Air & Ground
• Air
Air‐to‐Ground
to Ground Weapon Simulation.
Weapon Simulation.
– Ability to limit ‘dead’ players.
• Simulated Ground Threats
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– SAMs, Area Boundaries
• Remote Debriefing
New Capability
BVR & IAI (Marconi)
Trial Objectives
Trial Objectives
Prove the system !!! y
(2xGS, 12x Pods)
• Inform ‘main buy’ (2 yrs).
• Aircraft Integration.
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– F3
F3, GR4, Harrier
• System Performance.
• Give it a name!!!
Give it a name!!!
Airborne Instrumented Debriefing System (R’Less) f g y
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AIDS(R)
RAIDS
Aircraft Integration
Aircraft Integration
NO FUNDING
NO FUNDING
• F3 Lead Platform
– Radar Missiles
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• SANS IPT had a poor understanding of system
understanding of system.
RAIDS as BUS MONITOR
RAIDS as BUS MONITOR
Data‐Link
Main
Computer
Radar
1, 2 etc
RAIDS
1553 MIL DATA BUS
1553 MIL DATA‐BUS
RAF ACMI FIT
RAF ACMI FIT
ACMI
Sim Plug
RDR Mx
MAIN COMPUTER
ACMI Pod
IR Mx
X‐over
RAF RAIDS FIT
RAF RAIDS FIT
COCKPIT
RAIDS Pod
MAIN COMPUTER
(RAIDS OFP)
IR Mx
X‐over
RAIDS OFP: Produced by RAF Software Maintenance Team
1553 D t b & AUDIO fitt d b F3 OEU E i
1553 Data‐bus & AUDIO fitted by F3 OEU Engineers
Flown under STF & Service Deviation to RtS
Aircraft Integration
Aircraft Integration
Weapon Simulation:
Weapon Simulation:
• Missile Modelling Tool:
– Security
– Validity
• Airborne:
– Aircraft‐to‐pod requirements
– Outcomes
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Missile Modelling Tool
Missile Modelling Tool
Security & Validity:
• Thrust Thrust – profile, amount etc
profile amount etc
• ‘G’
• Drag & Vmax/Vmin
Flt profile – collision, pursuit etc
collision, pursuit etc
• Flt profile • Aircraft data for pairing
• Aircraft data for valid kill
• Only ‘kill’ message sent.
• No seeker/fusing/warhead data required
Missile Modelling Tool
Missile Modelling Tool
Data Requirements: SA Rdr, Active Rdr, IR
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Semi‐Active Radar:
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– Antenna ‘Look Angle’ at launch and during flight.
– Terrain
Missile Modelling Tool
Missile Modelling Tool
Data Requirements: SA Rdr, Active Rdr, IR
Active Radar:
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– Tgt position (+/‐) data to ‘active’ boundary.
– Terrain
Missile Modelling Tool
Missile Modelling Tool
Data Requirements: SA Rdr, Active Rdr, IR
IR:
– Antenna ‘Look Angle’ at launch
– Terrain
– re‐action to re‐action to ‘flares’
flares .
Trial Program
Trial Program
Truth Data
Truth Data
– 1 RAIDS pod v ACMI pod
– 1 RAIDS pod v ac navigation data
1 RAIDS pod v ac navigation data
Data‐Link Performance
– 1 card v 2, 3, 4 card debrief
Weapon Simulation Accuracy
Weapon Simulation Accuracy – RAIDS pod v ac weapon sim.
– ‘hit’ and ‘miss’
‘hi ’ d ‘ i ’
Trial Program
Trial Program
Air‐to‐Air
Air
to Air Collision
Collision
– 1000ft ‘bubble’ check
– Useable ‘bubble’
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– Multi‐ac scenarios
Simulated SAM systems
Simulated
SAM systems
Air‐to‐Gnd Collision
Air‐to‐Gnd Weapons
Trial Results
Trial Results
• 2 x F3 Fully 2 x F3 Fully ‘RAIDS’
RAIDS capable.
capable.
• SA & IR Mx
SA & IR M validated
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• 500ft collision ‘bubble’
• Security validated (GCHQ)
• SOPs drafted
SOPs drafted
Procurement Results
Procurement Results
• BVR & IAI BVR & IAI – split
• 2 Tenders
– BVR/Marconi – ‘trialled’.
– IAI/MBDA/Cubic –
IAI/MBDA/Cubic – paper.
paper
• MBDA
– No integration (Resources & IPR)
– Post‐flt
Post flt debrief, NO weapons
debrief NO weapons
– No trial possible