{"id":709,"date":"2023-10-14T15:18:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2023-10-14T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T15:18:22","slug":"yuma-proving-ground-pioneers-radar-sharing-with-fellow-test-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Yuma Proving Ground Pioneers Radar Sharing With Fellow Test Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. \u2014 Radar units send out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that reflect off objects, and modern radar systems are sophisticated enough to track even small, rapidly moving objects like rockets and mortar and artillery shells.<\/p>\n

The Army Test and Evaluation Command, known as ATEC, relies heavily on multiple radars to gather test data on a variety of military systems under evaluation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of all the ATEC test ranges, YPG\u2019s systems have the greatest amount of usability for different types of testing,\u201d said Herbert Kiser of Yuma Proving Ground\u2019s Instrumentation Division. \u201cYuma does a lot of different things with what we have and does them well.\u201d<\/p>\n

This versatility in radar capabilities makes YPG\u2019s systems prime candidates for supporting testing elsewhere across the ATEC enterprise in a bid to share expensive, highly specialized assets between installations.<\/p>\n

Tests at U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range, the ATEC post that specializes in evaluating long-range missiles, tend to have a higher level of complexity than YPG. Most notably, the post\u2019s range safety requirements often include double or triple redundancies that aren\u2019t necessary for the shorter-range artillery and mortar testing conducted in Yuma.<\/p>\n

Safety is so paramount that testers might have to detonate a missile in flight if a redundant radar doesn\u2019t work due to technical problems, which would cause significant test delays and cost millions of dollars in lost time. Borrowing a radar system from YPG in such a situation helps prevent this, but at what cost in test delays and lost time at YPG if their radar was transported to WSMR for many weeks?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew the systems could be used for a missile test, but YPG has a different network structure than White Sands does,\u201d said Kiser. \u201cThe concern was always that it had never been done before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among other things, it had been assumed by some that successfully integrating the two could take months of preparations, not least of which was moving the massive 12-foot dish that generates the AN\/FPS 16\u2019s one million watts of power along with its personnel shelter and calibration tower. Two support personnel also must accompany the apparatus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just sharing the radar systems, it\u2019s sharing the personnel,\u201d said Kiser. \u201cOur greatest asset is the people we have with specialized knowledge and skill sets.\u201d<\/p>\n

To prove the concept, YPG personnel configured the AN\/FPS 16 in the same manner as WSMR\u2019s while the apparatus was still on site in Yuma. They then tracked an orbiting satellite as it passed, then electronically handed the track off to a radar at WSMR. The two installations then did the same test in reverse and were successful again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis proves that we can assist White Sands based on their schedule to accommodate a redundant range safety asset,\u201d said Kiser. \u201cIt\u2019s a big feat: We\u2019ve taken our weapons systems and radars there as a stand-alone before, but we had never integrated with White Sands\u2019 radars.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Mark Schauer<\/em><\/p>\n

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YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. \u2014 Radar units send out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that reflect off objects, and modern radar systems are sophisticated enough to track even small, rapidly moving objects like rockets and mortar and artillery shells. The Army Test and Evaluation Command, known as ATEC, relies heavily on multiple radars to gather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-army"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}