October 2000 Newsletter - Naval Postgraduate School

RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
WEAPONEERING: FROM A JTCG/ME PERSPECTIVE, continued from page 13
over the last 10 months a set of notes to hand
out to the students. If the necessary clearances
can be obtained, these notes will form the basis
of the first textbook in weaponeering. The
course is unique, certainly in the U.S. and
maybe outside. Considerable interest in the
material has been expressed by many of the
people who are collegues in the JTCG community,
who like Driels would like to understand
“the bigger picture” as well as their own area of
speciality. The course may be offered as a short
course outside NPS in the future.
Working in this more operationally oriented
environment is very different from that associated
with a more traditional academic research
program. The latter is usually associated with
producing as an end product peer reviewed
journal papers, conference papers, reviews of
other peoples papers and so on. In the JTCG,
there is an Operational Users Working Group
(OUWG) which meets twice a year at bases all
over the U.S. At these meetings, the audience is
comprised of around 50 aviators, planners,
targeteers, military and civilian users of JAWS. The researchers
present their accomplisments over the last six months and
outline their plans for the next six. The aviators are not slow
in coming forward to say what they think of your work after
all, they may be using it in the next month to go into harms
ME4300 WEAPONEERING – COURSE SYLLABUS, continued from page 13
9.3 Fractional overlap of target by damage function
9.4 Target smaller than the damage function
9.5 Spreadsheet implementation
10. Stick deliveries
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Weapon release conditions
10.3 Calculating stick length
10.4 Ballistic dispersion for sticks
10.5 Pattern dimensions
10.6 Weapon sparsity and overlap in the pattern
10.7 Computing SSPDs
10.8 Spreadsheet implementation
11. Projectiles
11.1 Guns
11.2 Rockets
11.3 Spreadsheet implementation
Figure 4. JTCG Operational User Working Group Meeting at Dyess
AFB.
way. This gives an immediacy that was absent from more
traditional programs, and an overiding motive to “get it right
the first time.” Debugging one’s code by losing a few FA-18s
is expensive! Participants from a recent meeting of the
12. Cluster munitions
12.1 Releasable dispensers
12.2 Time and altitude fuzing
12.3 Trajectory computations for cluster munitions
12.4 Wind corrected munitions dispenser (WCMDs)
12.5 Spreadsheet implementation
13. Methods for particular types of target
13.1 Buildings
13.2 Bridges
13.3 Linear targets (runways, railroad tracks etc.)
13.4 Hardened targets
13.5 Ships
--continued on page 48
14. Methods for particular types of weapon
14.1 GPS guided munitions
14.2 Conventional air launched cruise missiles (CALCM)
NPS Research page 47
October 2000