The Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator Infrared Countermeasures (IRCM) lab 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, LASERs, flares, and lamp-based jammer systems. The simulations of IR missiles in flight include real missile seeker hardware mounted in a six degree-of-freedom flight simulation table. The simulations of aircraft signatures and IR countermeasures are accomplished by using eight xenon arc lamps, located in 9' X 3' cylindrical housings, in the presentation foreground. A mirror system keeps the high intensity IR sources in the missile field of view. Range closure is simulated in the background by zooming in on the scene and in the foreground by separating and controlling the irises of the arc lamp sources for proper spatial and intensity characteristics. All relative motion and range closure is controlled by missile flyout software and aircraft flight-profile software models.


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    Title :

    Air Force electronic warfare evaluation simulator (AFEWES) infrared test and evaluation capabilities


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing VI ; 2001 ; Orlando,FL,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2001-08-31





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English