During this task period, Schafer Corporation provided engineering services and analysis to the USAF at Eglin AFB, Florida in direct support of the USAF Air-to-Surface Weapon System Evaluation Program (WSEP). Support was funded through and provided to the 86th Fighter Weapons Squadron, Eglin AFB, Florida and the Maverick Missile System Program Office (00-ALC/LIWGM), Hill AFB, UT. The primary focus of Schafer's activities involved providing detailed engineering support for the AGM-65 Maverick Missile system in the areas of pre-flight missile build-up analysis, live launch support and post-flight data analysis and reporting. The AGM-65 Maverick Missile is an air-launched, powered precision guided originally designed to destroy armored. Introduced in 1973, the AOM-65 has undergone significant technology and software updates over the last twenty- five years. Current variants of the AGM-65 employ electro-optical, laser or imaging infrared seekers and have either a 125 pound shaped charged warhead for armor type targets or a 300 pound blast fragmentation warhead for large targets. Developmental versions of the AOM-65 include a new CCD type seeker with modified software. Approximately 20,000 AGM-65 Maverick Missiles remain in the operational inventory.
USAF Weapon System Evaluation Program
1999
68 pages
Report
No indication
English
Missile Technology , Guided missiles , Weapon system effectiveness , Air to surface missiles , Test and evaluation , Computer programs , Data processing , Armor , Weapon systems , Targets , Lasers , Variations , Engineering , Infrared images , Flight , Launching , Inventory , Homing devices , Accumulation , Maverick missiles , Agm-65 missiles
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