Missile airframe simulation testbed: MANPADS (MAST-M) for test and evaluation of aircraft survivability equipment
2011
A number of techniques have been utilized to evaluate the performance of Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE)
against threat Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS). These techniques include flying actual threat
MANPADS against stationary ASE with simulated aircraft signatures, testing installed ASE systems against simulated
threat signatures, and laboratory hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) testing with simulated aircraft and simulated missile
signatures. All of these tests lack the realism of evaluating installed ASE against in-flight MANPADS on a terminal
homing intercept path toward the actual ASE equipped aircraft. This limitation is due primarily to the current inability
to perform non-destructive MANPADS/Aircraft flight testing. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research and
Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) is working to overcome this limitation with the development of a
recoverable surrogate MANPADS missile system capable of engaging aircraft equipped with ASE while guaranteeing
collision avoidance with the test aircraft. Under its Missile Airframe Simulation Testbed - MANPADS (MAST-M)
program, the AMRDEC is developing a surrogate missile system which will utilize actual threat MANPADS
seeker/guidance sections to control the flight of a surrogate missile which will perform a collision avoidance and
recovery maneuver prior to intercept to insure non-destructive test and evaluation of the ASE and reuse of the
MANPADS seeker/guidance section. The remainder of this paper provides an overview of this development program
and intended use.
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