Airborne platform capability assessment

Author

Elengical, George ; Lunde, Duane

Author_Institution

Westinghouse Electr. Corp., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

3

Issue

4

fYear

1988

fDate

4/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

19

Abstract

It is expected that the multimode weapons systems of the future will be highly fault tolerant, possessing the ability to perform tactical missions with both full or degraded functional capabilities. The fault-tolerant system characteristics will allow systems with less than the fully specified functional capabilities to be engaging in combat. This design feature will present the operators of these weapons system with the operational challenge of selecting and/or assigning weapons platforms with degraded capabilities to carry out tactical missions. An in-system assessment process is proposed to evaluate the operability for these weapons platforms on the basis of current functional status, the reliability of the hardware resources within the system´s avionics, and the resources required by the various application modes to accomplish mission tasks.<>

Keywords

aerospace computing; aircraft instrumentation; computerised instrumentation; fault tolerant computing; military computing; military systems; reliability; weapons; avionics; combat; fault-tolerant system characteristics; in-system assessment; multimode weapons systems; operability; reliability; tactical missions; weapons platforms; Aerospace control; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Degradation; Electronic switching systems; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.861

Filename

861