Electronic Warfare Test and Evaluation, Volume 17 Flight Test Techniques Series(les Essais et l'evaluation du materiel de guerre electronique)

摘要

The past decade has seen an enormous increase in the use and importance of the 'electronic battlefield'. As a result of the continuing growth in this area, this volume has been prepared to serve as an introductory reference to the process of testing and evaluating Electronic Warfare Systems. Electronic Warfare (EW) is the mission area responsible for establishing and maintaining a favorable position in the electromagnetic domain. Test and evaluation (T&E) of those devices used on modern military aircraft to prosecute this critical mission area requires the use of a wide range of test techniques and analytical methods to assure users of the readiness of EW systems to meet the challenges of the combat environment. Actual in-flight testing comprises a relatively small portion of the EW T&E process. Today's tester makes judicious use of a plethora of models, simulations, and hardware-in-the-loop test facilities prior to and during the more realistic open-air range and installed system test facility events. Analysis of data derived from each of these test opportunities leads to the overall evaluation of the EW system. This volume will introduce the concept of the EW Test Process and subsequently show how it is applied in each class of test facility and to each major division of EW systems. The reader will find that the concentration in this document is far broader than 'flight test' - ranging from laboratory efforts to establish the system performance baseline through complex ground-based simulations and finally the limited, but vitally important, verification accomplished in the open-air range environment.