The Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator (AFEWES) infrared countermeasures (IRCM) test facility currently has the ability to simulate a complete IRCM test environment, including IR missiles in flight, aircraft in flight, and various IR countermeasures including maneuvers, point- source flares, and lamp- and LASER-based jammer systems. The simulations of IR missiles in flight include missile seeker hardware mounted on a six degree-of- freedom flight simulation table. This paper will focus on recent developments and upgrades to the AFEWES IR capability. In particular, current developments in IR scene generation/projection and efforts to optically combine the IR image produced by a resistive array with existing foreground lamp sources.
Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator (AFEWES) Infrared Test and Evaluation Capabilities
2007
12 pages
Report
No indication
English
Infrared & Ultraviolet Detection , Computers, Control & Information Theory , Electromagnetic & Acoustic Countermeasures , Military Sciences , Research facilities , Infrared countermeasures , Flight simulation , Hardware in the loop , Test and evaluation , Symposia , Laser tracking , Infrared jamming , Flares , Research management , Air force research , Aircraft signatures , Flight profiles , Irsp(Infrared scene projection) project