Guided Weapons 2016 - Annual Report

Authors:

  • Peter Strömbäck
  • Kristoffer Hultgren

Publish date: 2016-12-14

Report number: FOI-R--4345--SE

Pages: 18

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • munition
  • weapons
  • guidance
  • navigation
  • control
  • GNC
  • missile
  • seeker

Abstract

This report describes the activities, commissioned by the Swedish Armed Forces, within the project Guided Weapons for the year 2016. The activities have been divided into different areas that all contribute to maintaining and further developing capability to assess precision guided weapons. In 2016 focus have been on improving the capabilities and links between established research, detailed scientific models and simplified engineering models for performance assessment. This have been done on several of the technologies necessary to assess guided weapons including guidance, navigation, control, seekers, aerodynamics and flight mechanics.