The United States Army Aviation Engineering Flight Activity conducted a limited evaluation of a 19-round prototype launcher to determine a safe jettison envelope for the 19-round lightweight airborne rocket launcher. The evaluation was conducted from 25 May 1978 to 6 June 1978 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Ten flights using an AH-1G helicopter were conducted totaling 3.5 flight hours. This evaluation defined a safe jettison envelope in coordinated (ball-centered) level flight to 120 knots calibrated airspeed (KCAS) and in autorotation at 70 KCAS. Establishment of a jettison envelope equivalent to that of the M159 and M200 launcher will require 75 7-round and 75 19-round lightweight airborne rocket launchers and 744 2.75-inch Model M229 rockets. Five reliability and maintainability launcher shortcomings were identified during the evaluation of the prototype launcher. (Author)


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    Title :

    AH-1G Helicopter, 19-Round Lightweight Airborne Launcher Jettison Envelope Determination


    Contributors:
    G. L. Skinner (author) / F. S. Doten (author)

    Publication date :

    1979


    Size :

    30 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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