A New Tracking System For High Acceleration Targets

Karl H. Roth

doi:10.1117/12.953461

18 June 1971 A New Tracking System For High Acceleration Targets

Karl H. Roth

Proceedings Volume 0023, Optical Tracking Systems; (1971) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.953461
Event: Optical Tracking Systems, 1971, El Paso, United States

Abstract

With the fast development of anti-ballistic missiles, capable of accelerations beyond 150 G's, it has become a problem for many missile ranges to utilize existing photo-optical tracking devices at reasonably short slant ranges. In order to track such superfast missiles, angular accelerations beyond 10 radians per second squared are required at the tracker's axes. This is about ten times better than what present-day theodolites and tracking mounts can achieve.

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Karl H. Roth "A New Tracking System For High Acceleration Targets", Proc. SPIE 0023, Optical Tracking Systems, (18 June 1971); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.953461

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