Estimation of impact points of an artillery rocket fitted with a non-standard fuze

Abstract

This paper describes a quick method to predict the impact point of an artillery rocket when it is equipped with a non-standard fuze and the firing tables and a fire control program supplied by the rocket manufacturer become no longer accurate. The method has been applied to a 122 mm artillery rocket that was originally designed to be used with MRV-U fuze but it was replaced by M423 fuze. Live fire tests of six rockets were conducted at a half range and a full range. The impact points were measured by a radar. From the test results, the average relative error of predicted range by the proposed method was -1.4% at half range and -3.3% at full range.

Simulation‐Based Early Prediction of Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar Trajectories and Real‐Time Optimization for Counter‐RAM Systems

“…Chusilp and Charubhun [5] estimated the impact points of an artillery rocket fitted with a nonstandard fuze. Scheuermann et al…”