INTRODUCTION
Success in the modern air-to-air combat arena depends on effective and realistic peacetime training. The nature of peacetime training requires accurate and detailed mission debriefs. Accurate reconstruction of the mission events is a challenging aspect of the mission debrief. AERO has developed Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation System which has revolutionized the training concept of Air Force.
The ACMI system is designed to be range-less i.e. it can be operated without any restriction in any area. The system records the "Time Space Position Information" (TSPI) of all the aircraft involved in the training exercise along with their essential parameters onto a removable data storage. The important parameters are shared amongst participant's aircraft as well on ground for real time debrief. The capabilities of the system include:
- Acquisition of aircraft data (MIL-STD-1553 or RS-232 bus)
- Exchange of data between the participating aircrafts using real time data link .
- Capture of “Weapon Employment Events”” (release/firing command).
- Notification to pilots of weapon event results such as hit and miss for missiles for real time kill removal functionality.
- Real time warnings to the pilot such as collision kill/miss etc..
- Recording of time synchronized relevant information for post mission debriefing replay like chaff/flare dispenser, RWR, EW etc.
- Post Launch missile fly out and bombing accuracy calculations.
The debrief ground station software consists of three major parts:
- Pre-mission configuration
- Debriefing and Mission Recreation.
- Report Generation and System Management.
Recreation of mission includes graphical regeneration of mission as well as providing of information in numerical form that is essential for carrying out an effective debrief.
