ROTARY-WING FLIGHT TESTS TO DETERMINE THE BENEFITS OF FREQUENCY AND SPATIAL DIVERSITY AT THE YUMA PROVING GROUND

摘要

The United States (U.S.) Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) conducted a series of rotary-wingudflight tests for the sole purpose of checking out Telemetry data link instrumentation. Four flightsudwere conducted at YPG in February 2016 that built upon an earlier test flight conducted in Juneud2015. The most recent iteration of testing examined the benefits of frequency diversity on aircraftudand the spatial diversity of receiving sites using existing hardware at YPG. Quantitative analysisudfrom those flight results will be presented and include discussion on how results will affect futureudmission operations at YPG.