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Guidance and Control of Precision Guided Weapons

The 46th symposium of the AGARD Guidance and Control Panel (GCP) was convened in
Geilo, Norway 3-6 May 1988 on the topic "Guidance and Control of Precision Guided
Weapons". This was the first revisit of the topic since a GCP symposium in 1982.

The symposium covered a broad range of precision guided weapons against
beyond-visual-range targets (moving or not) and helicopters, with emphasis on
guidance and control of such weapons, and, where appropriate, their airborne or
ground platforms. A variety of sensors and control mechanisms were described which
are focused on the anti-armor low cost precision munitions problem.

The robustness of all-weather applications continues to drive system designers to
desire multi-mode sensors for target identification and terminal guidance, but the
costliness of such systems for anti-armor ordnance has yet to be resolved.

Imaging systems still remain the favorite of the technologists, but issues of
targeting, aspect dependence, and the overwhelming costs of identification algorithms
and other image processing problems remains an insufficiently defined domain for the
system designer to seriously consider robust autonomous imaging for low cost systems.
There needs to be considerable more research and analysis in this area.

Finally, an observation concerning the character of GCP symposia: because the GCP
tends to function as a systems panel for AGARD, each of its symposia is tending to be
very broad. Although this is necessary from the systems View, it appears that
significant areas of technology do not receive the in-depth treatment desired by some
of the technical community.

The 46th symposium of the AGARD Guidance and Control Panel (GCP) was convened in
Geilo, Norway 3—6 May 1988. This symposium was on the topic "Guidance and Control of
Precision Guided Weapons".

The GCP held a symposium on the same general theme in 1982. Coincidentally, that
symposium was also hosted by Norway. In the TER for the 1982 symposium, it was
concluded that the technology and applications could be expected to advance rapidly;
it was recommended that the GCP re-visit the topic in no more than three years. The
press of the variety of topics of interest to the GCP precluded such a quick return
to the topic, the GCP agreed that the topic was due a re-examination in 1988.