Fragment Capture Simulation for Missile Blast Test Optimization

摘要

The assessment of aircraft survivability against explosive munitions is an expensive undertaking. Test articles for both aircraft and weapon are scarce due to their high costs, leading to a limited supply of test data. Unfortunately, the short supply of test data does not prevent the development of newer, hopefully more effective weaponry or protection measures. Therefore, test organizations need to explore methods for increasing the quality of test results while looking for ways to decrease the associated costs. This research focuses on Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems (MANPADS) as the weapon of choice and live-fire arena testing as the experimental data source. A simulation infrastructure is built and used to examine how to optimize the arena configuration to maximize the test information obtained.