System Hit Optical Technique for Kill Assessment

SECOTEC is proposing a simple, lightweight, carry-along Kill Assessment (KA) system based on two techniques that that we currently have under development. One is a fiber optic based Two Point Optical Thermometer (TPOT) that has been used to remotely determine the resultant temperature of kinetic energy impacts, high explosive events, and reactive fragment reactions. It has a range from 1,000 deg Kelvin to well above 5,000 deg Kelvin, uses a single two color sensor, and has a time response of 250 kHz up to 2 MHz if necessary. The other is a high-speed Fiber Optic Spectrometer (FOS) that is based on similar technology but uses a simple, linear array that is line filtered for specific bands.