A method for calculation of the target range of an airborne IRST has been verified with data from flight trials. The calculation method includes modelling of sensor performance, atmospheric transmission and infrared radiation from target and background. The flight trials were performed with the IR-OTIS system mounted on a Saab JA37 Viggen fighter aircraft, and a similar aircraft serving as target. Detection range was measured at various flight altitudes, for front and rear aspect. The correspondence between measured and predicted range is very good, with a deviation of less than 10 %.


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    Title :

    Airborne IRST target range: modelling and flight trials


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Infrared Technology and Applications XXVIII ; 2002 ; Seattle,WA,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2003-01-23





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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