SMALL BASELINE VECTOR SCORING

TACTICAL MISSILE DEVELOPMENT REQUIRES NOT ONLY MISS DISTANCE, VELOCITY AND TIME OF CLOSEST APPROACH BUT ALSO MISSILE ATTITUDE AND TRAJECTORY DURING INTERCEPT. CARTWRIGHT ELECTRONICS, INC. (CEI) HAS DEVELOPED SCALAR SCORING SYSTEMS WHICH HAVE DEMONSTRATED ACCURACY AND TARGET RESOLUTION COMPATIBLE WITH VECTOR SCORING REQUIREMENTS. USE OF SUBSCALE TARGETS SUCH AS THE EON-345 IMPOSES SEVERE ANTENNA SPACING CONSTRAINTS WHICH MUST BE RESOLVED IF SATISFACTORY VECTOR SCORING IS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED ON THESE TARGETS. THE PRIMARY PHASE I OBJECTIVE IS THIS SIMULATION OF VECTOR SCORING ACCURACY AS A FUNCTION OF ANTENNA ARRAY CONFIGURATION USING SIMULATED RADAR INTERCEPT DATA. A SECOND PHASEI OBJECTIVE IS THE EVALUATION OF ALGORITHMIC ENHANCEMENTS FOR POTENTIAL INCORPORATION IN A PHASE II PROOF OF CONCEPT VECTOR SCORING SYSTEM SIMULATION. A THIRD PHASE I OBJECTIVE INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM CONCEPT FOR USE WITH THE SMALL BASELINE ARRAY ALGORITHMS STUDIED.