A technique has been developed for six-degree-of-freedom coordinate frame alignment between remote battlefield vehicles. It was developed specifically for a High Energy Laser Weapon application which must hand off a target from a radar vehicle to a laser vehicle to milliradian accuracy. Laboratory hardware was used from rooftops in Redondo Beach to validate the concept experimentally. In a field environment, an alignment should take less than 30 sec, work to ranges beyond 3 km, and work in visibilities less than 4 km. (Author)


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    Title :

    Directed Beam Alignment System Testing Program


    Contributors:
    R. F. Gates (author)

    Publication date :

    1979


    Size :

    119 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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