The Air War against North Vietnam the Thanh Hoa Railroad and Highway Bridge (Part Four)

According to TAWC, this laser system had the potential of improving weapons delivery accuracies by as much as 50 percent. The operation concept included the demonstration of the feasibility of laser semi-active guidance for conventional munitions, the determination if any improvements in the M-117 C...

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Veröffentlicht in:Air power history Jg. 66; H. 4; S. 7 - 26
1. Verfasser: van Geffen, Theo
Format: Journal Article Magazine Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Rockville Air Force Historical Foundation 22.12.2019
Schlagworte:
Air forces
Airborne lasers
Aircraft
American military assistance
Bombs
Bridges
Bridges (Structures)
Consumer electronics industry
Features
Highway bridges
Laboratories
Laser guidance
Laser guided weapons
Lasers
Military aircraft
Military aspects
Military deployment
President of the United States
R&D
Railroads
Research & development
Semiconductor industry
Weapons
Weapons delivery
United States
Vietnam
Japan
North Vietnam
United States > US
Texas
South Vietnam
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Zusammenfassung:According to TAWC, this laser system had the potential of improving weapons delivery accuracies by as much as 50 percent. The operation concept included the demonstration of the feasibility of laser semi-active guidance for conventional munitions, the determination if any improvements in the M-117 Circular Error Probability (CEP) could be attained with laser guidance, and the acquisition of information relative to operational capabilities and limitations of a laser guided bomb modification. Two contracts were let, one to Texas Instruments (TI, effective November 16, 1965), and one to North American Aviation's Autonetics (effective June 3, 1966), respectively Project 1559Y1 and 1559Y2, to fabricate guidance and control kits to attach to the M-117 bomb to give it the capability to home on the radiation from a target marked with a ground-based or airborne laser illuminator. According to TAWC such use of the bomb would work better in South Vietnam, but there would be a problem without the FAC to illuminate the target.
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ISSN:1044-016X