S.S. Semenov

Complexity and expensiveness of modern guidance systems (GS) of controllable aviation homing weapons (CAHW) pose a problem of a rational choice of the GS and its main performance characteristics at creating air-based high-accuracy weapons (HAW). this article is devoted to substantiation of criteria and estimating indicators of efficiency for controllable aviation weapon guidance systems of «air-to-ground» class on the example of controllable aviation bombs (CAB). In the article, the basic role of the HAW in modern military conflicts is mentioned and importance of GSs as elements of CAHW is accentuated. Main existing approaches to estimation of quality and efficiency of CAHW GSs are discussed and necessity of taking into account various factors acting in the structure of the combat aviation complex (CAC) at forming criteria and estimating indicators of CHW GS efficiency is pointed out. In the system of «carrier aircraft - CAB - medium - target», a structure and a system of indicators for estimating CAHW GS efficiency are formed, including integral (complex) and single indicators, with taking into account the GS life cycle. An algorithm for evaluation of the resulting generalized indicator for estimating efficiency of a CAHW GS is presented. The proposed system of estimating indicators is the basic one for estimation of CAB GS efficiency in the information-analytical system (IAS) «ESTIMATION and CHOICE» which results of work are also presented in the article. By using the carried out investigation results, in the article the conclusion is made about the fact that specialists are still cannot define exactly the term of the CAHW GS quality. At the same time, in the article an attempt is undertaken to formalize an approach to the choice of estimating indicators of GS with taking into consideration main stages of the life cycle of the - air-to-ground - CAHW as applied to the CAB class. Here, the conclusion is made that the proposed approach for estimation of CAGW GS efficiency is urgent in the cases of non-time-consuming and inexpensive operational estimation of GS efficiency.