Measurement of Drag Characteristics of Mk 82 General Purpose Low Drag Bomb usingan Aeroballistic Range Facility

摘要

A method is described to determine the drag characteristics of the Mk 82 low dragbomb. This involves launching half scale models from the DSTO gas gun facilities at Port Wakefield and measuring the trajectories by photogrammetric methods. The drag coefficients were calculated from the measured positional data using a three degrees of freedom parameter estimation method. The estimated drag characteristics of various Mk 82 GPLD store configurations will form the basis of a database for use with the updated F-111C aircraft.