INTEGRATED FIRE AND FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING THE ANGLE OF ATTACK OF A ROTARY WING AIRCRAFT

摘要

An integrated fire and flight control system (10) of the type which controls (200) aircraft flight dynamics to referenced values defined by a weapon launch solution to provide optimum aircraft to target orientation, further optimizes the aircraft's angle of attack (AOA) (47) to the target by controlling the aircraft's vertical speed to modify the aircraft's rate of climb or descent as necessary to produce an actual pitch attitude that is within a range of AOA values corresponding to the range of permissive weapon launch vertical speeds recommended by the weapons manufacturer.