In analyzing air combat operations during the Vietnam War it was clear that aircrews needed some method of providing real-time training feedback in order to adequately prepare them for battle. It was in this post Vietnam era that the Tactical Aircrew Combat Training System (TACTS) was developed. The TACTS system was unique in that it provided the combat aircrew with weapons simulations and real-time kill removal. The aircrews could land, be debriefed on the mission and apply lessons learned that same day. The instrumentation designed for this effort was also unique for its time. It had to have communications, processing, position determination capabilities, and aircraft interface hardware fielded in a small durable package capable of surviving high dynamic, edge of the envelope maneuvers. Now, over 20 years later, TACTS is still being used but new instrumentation packages which are about the same size, but capable of doing much more, are in the acquisition pipeline. As aircraft and other weapons platforms evolve, so must our test and training instrumentation.
Implementation of Common Modular Test and Training Instrumentation Standards
1999
24 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aeronautics , Simulation , Flight crews , Real time , Instrumentation , Military training , Test and evaluation , Weapons , Warfare , Lessons learned , Aircraft , Acquisition , Kill probabilities , Interfaces , Platforms , Aerial warfare , Position finding , Feedback , Standards , Maneuvers , Vietnam war , Tacts(Tactical aircrew combat training system)
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