Assessments were made of hardware and guidance techniques for Gliding Airdrop System employing partial and full-state guidance schemes. From the available candidate guidance schemes, the Army selected the following ones for further study to prepare system specifications and preliminary cost estimates: Minimum Cost Radial Homing, Radial Homing with Enhance Manual Control, Cone-of-Silence Homing, and Full-State Guidance. Airdrop systems with payload capacities of 227 KG, 909 KG, and 6800 KG are ...
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