Guided Weapons Systems Integration

Course structure

What you will learn

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• Assess the challenges of integrating a guided weapon onto platforms with consideration of integrated logistic elements,
• Appraise the system-of-systems interactions, dependencies and interrelationships of a missile in the operating environment using a performance model,
• Propose a test and evaluation programme for a guided weapon from the design to acceptance across the operating environment,
• Examine in detail and justify a safety assessment at weapon, platform, and system levels, including rules and regulations,
• Appraise the systems integration aspects of a guided weapon onto a platform and within a specific operating domain.

Core content

• System of Systems: definitions, Performance setting and performance assessment, dependencies, interrelationships, modelling, safety cases.
• Physical Integration: Environment definition, Environmental data gathering.
• Data Integration: Power and Command and Control, knowledge of start position, sensor errors.
• Domain Specific Issues: Air/Maritime/Land, challenges of integrating into each environment, load/unload, character release and jettison, casual weapon procedure, render safe procedure.
• Integration Facilities: Hardware-in-the-loop simulation, software-in-the-loop simulation, technical integration labs, systems reference models.
• In-service Safety: e.g., HUMS, EMC, energetics.
• MTDS/Life Cycle: Package Handling storage and transportation, battlefield management, ground-air-ground cycle (temperature gradients, thermal models).
• Trials Planning:Fundamental requirements of validation, safety, trials equipment (independent flight termination system, tele-breakup unit), sequence, telemetry (instrumentation plan, go-no-go criteria), pit testing, jettison, missile simulator round, live fire.

Upgrade to a professional qualification

When taken as a Short Course for Credit, 10 credit points can be put towards the Guided Weapon Systems MSc.

Find out more about short course credit points.

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Concessions

Location and travel

Cranfield Defence and Security (CDS) is a Cranfield School based at the Ministry of Defence establishment on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire borders.

Shrivenham itself lies in the picturesque Vale of the White Horse, close to the M4 motorway which links London and South Wales. It is 7 miles from Swindon, the nearest town, which lies off the M4 at the hub of Britain’s motorway network.

Bath, Cheltenham, Bristol and Oxford are all within an hour’s drive and London less than two hours away by car.

All visitors must be pre-booked in at reception by the person they are visiting on the campus.