Changing Requirements for Aircraft Inertial Navigation Systems

Colonel Richard A. Borowski

Abstract:	This paper addresses the role of the inertial navigation system in current and future aircraft in the light of Glooal Positioning System (GPS), Digital Terrain systems and stealth aircraft. It discusses thresholds of navigational accuracy in a mission context for interdiction and strategic bolnbing missions. Using the example of the Flight Dynamics Laboratory's advanced development flight demonstrator aircraft (Advanced Demonstrator F-15 and X-291, it discusses use of inertially generated data in a systems context. The paper discusses the severe operating environment for avionics eouipment, in general, particular, and inertial systems, in and projects the direction of change of that environment. This paper reports on developmental desion and evaluation techniques for highly reliable avionics.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 1990 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 23 - 25, 1990 Princess Resort Hotel San Diego, CA
Pages:	143 - 145
Cite this article:	Borowski, Colonel Richard A., "Changing Requirements for Aircraft Inertial Navigation Systems," Proceedings of the 1990 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, CA, January 1990, pp. 143-145.
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