Air-to air attack management algorithm performance

The authors summarize the objectives, methods, and results of a test program designed to evaluate the Air-to-Air Attack Management (A3M) integrated fire control algorithms developed under contract F33615-C-86-1002 for the US Air Force Wright Laboratories. The algorithms were evaluated over a target density of 6 to 17 targets and for active, passive, and low-probability-of-intercept (LPI) emission modes. The testing demonstrated that the onboard MSI and multiship internetting tracking algorithms will acquire and maintain quality tracks. These algorithms maintain fire control quality tracks onboard each aircraft by managing the sensor resources. Situation awareness is maintained between aircraft by allowing the sensors to search for 95% of each computing interval during the most active portion of the mission. A token rate of 2 Hz for the data link was sufficient to maintain target tracks and situation awareness between aircraft, as measured by its ability to correlate target tracks