Effects of Different Meteorological Standards on Projectile Path

Abstract

Projectile path is dictated by estimated line of fire. Line of fire can be estimated by referring RT as well as trajectory model on computer. RT is prepared under ISA/ICAO meteorological standard conditions without wind effect. Meteorological conditions like density, humidity, pressure, wind, temperature affect the path of the trajectory. Meteorological data plays very important role in trajectory prediction. Trajectory is predicted using RT for a particular weapon where ICAO standard met data is used. Ind Std met data is different from ICAO data. Use of Ind Std data improves the accuracy of trajectory prediction for Indian field deployment. In this paper, comparative study of effect on projectile path under ICAO, Ind Std and actual Indian prevailing met have been carried out and analyzed. From this analysis, a new model has been established that if actual prevailing met is not available then trajectory prediction can be carried out using Ind Std met data with wind data as perdate and time. It predicts trajectory very close to actual. Effect of wind has been studied and found that wind effect is very dominant on projectile path. Study of effect of density also has been carried out in this paper. It is observed that Ind Std density values are much close to actual as compared to ICAO. Therefore, if insufficient met is recorded then Ind std density can be used to fill density values for that region.Defence Science Journal, 2013, 63(1), pp.101-107, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.63.2641