In today’s marketplace for military aircraft, technological superiority at affordable cost remains the overarching demand of the customer community. Traditional design practices, which rely on extensive experimental testing to generate data for configuration design and on developing physical prototypes to verify functional and operational characteristic, cannot effectively tackle this challenge...

BACKGROUND Improvised explosive devices are a common feature of recent asymmetric conflicts and there is a persistent landmine threat to military and humanitarian personnel. Assessment of injury risk to the spine in vehicles subjected to explosions was conducted using a standardized model, the Dynamic Response Index (DRI). However, the DRI was intended for evaluating aircraft ejection seats and...

This document introduces the main concepts of Collaborative Engineering as a new methodology, procedures and tools to design and develop an aircraft, as Airbus Military is implementing. Airbus designs and industrializes aircrafts under Concurrent Engineering techniques since decades with success. The introduction of new PLM methodologies, procedures and tools, mainly in the industrialization ar...

Speech recognition in aircrafts can greatly simplify operation of equipment in both military and civil environments. This paper describes the development of specialized recognizers for two military applications: One for assisting a jet pilot wearing a breathing mask and another for a radar evaluator within an aircraft (similarly to AWACS). In both cases it is not practical to collect su cient s...

In the area of military avionics, the most promising application areas of Global Positioning System (GPS) include missile guidance, Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) guidance and control and precision aircraft landings. Though spread spectrum technique is used for GPS anti-jamming requirements, but this alone fails to ensure protection of GPS receiver from jamming vulnerability. The existing guidanc...

Can you remember your old schooldays? For some reason, we remember the old good days as being especially beautiful. All the shrubs on campus were in blossom and the trees were green. The grass was dotted with dandelions. Everyone was happy and carefree, for the vacation was just about to begin. With that to look forward to, no-one was worried about the future. But life is too complicated for yo...