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AIR COMBAT MANEUVERING RANGE [2 records]

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Record 1 2017-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operations (Air Forces)
OBS

According to explanations given by a member of the CF18 Project Office, Department of National Defence, Ottawa, this term refers to a physical area over which air combat simulation takes place. Transceivers and other types of electronic equipment are dispersed at "strategic" locations over the range to ensure communication between the aircraft and a home station and to transmit and record data concerning the simulated mission.

Key term(s)
  • air combat maneuvering range
  • air combat manoeuvering range

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations (Forces aériennes)

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
CONT

ACMRI has four basic sub-systems. First is a sidewinder-shaped external pod which attaches to the aircraft's missile mounting rack and contains instrumentation independent of the aircraft's own systems to measure altitude, airspeed, Mach number, angle of attack and sideslip, plus a compact inertial sensor which measures pitch, roll, heading and acceleration/deceleration. The instrumentation package ... also contains a transponder-like radio link which transmits all this information down on command from the second sub-system, the ground tracking station network ... the third sub-system - the Control and Computation facility ... precise aircraft position determination, and data formatting prior to reaching the fourth ... sub-system ... the Display and Debriefing Sub-system.

Key term(s)
  • air combat maneuvering range instrumentation
  • air combat manoeuvring range instrumentation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)

Spanish

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