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EW TEST AND EVALUATION - ASSURING SURVIVABILITY AND OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
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Dr. Mike Pywell - EW Technologist & Project/Engineering Manager – Typhoon EW Rig Support Equipment
Mitch Midgley-Davies – Technical Lead - Typhoon Avionics Sensors Future Capability (Radar/EW)
Electromagnetic Engineering Department
BAE SYSTEMS, Military Air & Information
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Introduction
Contents
• Survival – man-made and unintentional threats
• EW importance to survivability, mission success and affordability
• Description of EW systems
• Challenges facing the EW Test and Evaluation community
• EW T&E process and capabilities
• Description of significant developments to date
• Moving EW T&E from flight towards modelling and simulation
Security statement: Unclassified
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Survival - Unintentional Threats
USAF Photo: Senior Airman James Croxon NASA Report
SP-2003-4529
• Lightning Strike
• High intensity radiated fields (HiRF)
• Electro-static discharge
Lightning strikes near taxying C-130
Hercules in Iraq
Bruce Fisher’s F-106B
Delta Dart was struck 714
times during lightning
research missions
Typhoon undergoing full-threat
lightning strike testing in BAE
SYSTEMS EW Test Facility
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Survival - Man-made Threats
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Typical Missile Engagement Ranges vs. Missile Volume
SA-3
SA-8
SA-10
SA-13
SA-14
SA-15
SA-16
SA-18
SA-19
SA-20
SA-21
SA-6 SA-11, SA-17
SA-9
SA-12
SA-7 (USAF Photo by Airman
1st Class Jonathan Snyder)
• Patriot
• Roland
• Javelin • Rapier
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Survivability and EW
• EW is a vital element of survivability
• Key capability of military aircraft
• Assists survival to fulfil primary goal – mission success
• Importance of ‘zero’ or ‘near zero’ attrition
Photo: LCpl. Andrew Williams, US Marine Corps
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Survivability components and terminology
• Complex relationship between
individual components
• Applicable to land, sea and air
platforms
• Optimal survivability require
balanced approach
• Objective is best survivability
needed to affordably achieve
mission success
DEFENCE
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Source: Pywell, M., 2013. Development and management of high-fidelity test
technology for comprehensive performance evaluation of electronic warfare systems in
multi-threat environments. PhD. University of Central Lancashire, UK.
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Survivability - The EW contribution
DEFINITION: ‘Military action that exploits electromagnetic energy to provide situational
awareness and achieve offensive and defensive effects.’*
*North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Glossary of Terms and Definitions (English and French).
AAP-06(2013) Available at http://nsa.nato.int/nsa/nsdd/listpromulg.html
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EW Suite – functional block diagram
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Typical Modern Defensive Aids System - Typhoon
1) Laser Warner
2) Avionics bay
3) Missile Warner
4) Flare dispenser
5) Chaff dispenser
6) ESM/ECM port pod
7) ESM/ECM starboard
pod
8) RF towed decoy
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Modern EW Equipment Fit
(Photos © SELEX-ES 2008-2013)
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EW T&E Contribution to Challenging Solutions
Challenge A S I E U
Optimisation, Development and Sustainment of EW T&E Facilities
Bolster chamber and laboratory test capability robustness
• To trap more problems prior to flight, saving T&E cost/time by reducing number of fly-fix-fly iterations required
• To better support R&D, evaluation of prototype technical solutions and EW Technology Demonstrator Programmes
• By generating more operationally realistic and measurable RF/IR/EO threat environments in laboratory/chambers
Network EW T&E, Synthetic Environment (SE) and Modelling & Simulation (M&S) facilities – Benefits:
• System requirements capture and optimisation, system development risk minimisation, training, tactics development
Ensure long lead capabilities available in time. Anticipate:
• Urgent Operational Requirements, upgrades and future EW fits
• Upcoming ‘digital from back of sensor’ systems
Rapid Development, Insertion & Acceptance of EW Systems Improvements
Support increased EW acceptance process use of SE and M&S – provide facilities for robust validation of EW models
EW Sensor placement optimisation via modelling and sub-/full-scale testing in anechoic chamber, to prevent, reduce, resolve
problems with EW sensors/effectors, data links, communication systems and other RF sensors
Laboratory/chamber R&D to understand mismatches between flight and ground test results
Generate capability to perform mission rehearsal/optimisation in anechoic chamber’s secure RF environment
Reduced Cost and Environmental Impact of EW T&E and Facilities
Less flight testing and ground engine running = reduced fuel cost and carbon footprint
More energy-efficient ground test facilities e.g. RF threat simulators
Reduced RF environmental pollution: Radio/Radar/EW, EM Compatibility (EMC), lightning strike tests in chamber
Codes Strong Contributor Medium Contributor Minor Contributor or Not Applicable
From ‘Improved Test Capabilities for Cost-effective Performance Evaluation of Airborne Electronic
Warfare Systems’ (J. Royal Aeronautical Society, Sep-10), by these authors
Affordability
Survivability
Industrial
Environmental
UAS (UAV/UCAV)
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EW T&E Process
From: Welch & Pywell NATO RTO AGARDograph 300 Vol.28, EW Test and Evaluation (Dec 2012).
http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public//PubFullText/RTO/AG/RTO-AG-300-V28///$$AG-300-V28-ALL.pdf
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EW T&E Capabilities
• Required to support system design, development and customer acceptance
• Modelling and Simulation (M&S)
• Sub-System and Avionics Integration Laboratories (SIL)
• Hardware In The Loop (HITL)
• Measurement Facilities (MF)
• Installed System Test Facilities (ISTF)
• Open Air Ranges (OAR)
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Modelling and Simulation
M&S is:
• Representation of reality via use of models and simulations
• Used throughout the platform systems’ life cycle
Testing EW systems can be considered a ‘simulation’ of their
operational use
M&S examples used in EW T&E include:
• Antenna pattern modelling
• Full emitter scenario modelling within RF threat simulator
Synthetic Environments – rising importance to EW T&E process
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Systems 2006
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Systems Integration Laboratory
From ‘Testing Tomorrow’s EW System Today’: P.W.
Richard, BAE SYSTEMS North America
Scenarios
Emitter Library
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Measurement Facilities
Various Types of MF’s used for T&E of EW Systems:
• Cover testing of:
• Un-installed EW components,
e.g. antennas
• Platform-installed EW systems
• Main types shown on this and next slides:
• Radar Cross Section
• Infra-Red Signatures
• Antenna performance
EMC Tests on Open Air Test Site
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Radar Cross Section Measurement
RCS Range:
• 2–18 GHz ground plane range
• Full polarisation – H, V and Cross
• Absolute RCS data, 1D and 2D imagery
• Component and full scale targets up to 35
tonnes and 15m
• On 7m tall, 12 tonne Az/El low-RCS positioner
Mobile RCS Measurements:
• 2–40 GHz instrumentation radar system
• Test articles from component to whole body
targets of up to 12 m
• Measure target in early and mid-life cycle,
production stage and in service
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Infra-Red Signature Measurement
Key measurement capabilities:
• Engine/plume measurements
• Hotspot investigations and black body
calibration
• Thermal Imaging Cameras:
• Medium Wave IR (3-5 μm)
• Long Wave IR (8-12 μm)
• Spectro-radiometer (1.25 – 14.8 μm)
• Temperature range -20ºC to +1500ºC
• Ground-to-Ground/-Air and Air-to-Air & -Ground
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Antenna Pattern Measurement
• Essential to know antenna pattern and gain
• Data gathered from facilities shown
• Data used to:
• Support design verification
• Validate Modelling & Simulation
• Programme RF threat simulators
Antenna Pattern Measurement
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Installed Systems Test Facilities
• Large anechoic chambers
• Limited examples world-wide, this is UK example
• Recently upgraded:
• 11 Channel CEESIM
• Signal Measurement System
• Infrastructure & Amplifiers
INSTALLED SYSTEM TEST FACILITIES
RFEG
ECM RMS
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Open Air Ranges
INSTALLED SYSTEM TEST FACILITIES
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INSTALLED SYSTEM TEST FACILITIES
Pywell, M. ‘Developments in RF Simulator Technology – Approaching the Affordable
Fidelity Limit’. The Aeronautical Journal (2007)
Emitter modelling -
• Fully Complex Emitters and Environment Realism
• RF source improvements
• RF pulse shaping
• Optimal Use of RF Resources
• Modelling of jammers and newer radar features
• Pulse Modulator Components
• Emitter antenna pattern modelling
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Significant Threat Simulator Developments to Date (1)
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Significant Threat Simulator Developments to Date (2)
INSTALLED SYSTEM TEST FACILITIES
Propagation & atmospheric effects models
• Atmospheric effects
• Multipath
• Gaming volume, surface types, terrain
modelling/masking
• Platform and Emitter geometry modelling and
dynamics
Platform and System Under Test (SUT)
antenna/aperture/receiver models
• Receiver antenna pattern modelling
• Digitally controlled attenuators
• Phase Comparison & TDOA SUT techniques
• Polarisation modelling
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Significant ECM RMS Developments
• Wider bandwidth
• Improved Dynamic Range: >50 dB
• Improved Low Signal Detection
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Laboratory & Chamber Testing Benefits vs. Flight Trials
INSTALLED SYSTEM TEST FACILITIES
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How much EW T&E can ACTUALLY be done by M&S and SE?
INSTALLED SYSTEM TEST FACILITIES
HLA RTI: High Level Architecture Real Time Implementation
• Move from Physical to ‘Virtual’ testing using M&S and SE
• Clear more can be done this way
• Will never totally supplant ground & flight test
Key Questions:
• Boundaries between physical and virtual testing
• Overall cost-effectiveness of those types of testing
• Sufficient confidence in M&S and SE to fully trust results
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Conclusions
INSTALLED SYSTEM TEST FACILITIES
• EW remains crucial to survivability and so to mission success
• Significant military affordability challenges exist
• EW T&E community continues to help meet these challenges
• Further worthwhile improvements have been identified under three
headings.
• Improved RF threat scenario simulation fidelity
• Reduced overall T&E cost
• Reduced flight testing
• For further information see: • Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering (2010) Ch.375- Ch.380 • ‘De-Risking Platform Clearance of EW Systems’ G. Slater & M. Pywell (2012)
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EW Test and Evaluation – Assuring survivability and operational effectivenss
Questions?
Co-authors’ contact details:
Mitch Midgley-Davies, BEng, CEng, MIET
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 (0) 1772 857173
Dr. Mike Pywell, BSc, MPhil, PhD, CEng, FIET
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 (0) 1772 852801
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