A new type of flight simulator for manual command to line-of-sight guided missile

The manual command to line-of-sight guidance system of the antitank missiles requires a human operator in the guidance loop. His task is to track both the target and the missile and to generate commands in order to bring the missile into line-of-sight. The efficiency of the guidance depends on the skill of the human operator. A new type of training flight simulator for manual command to line-of-sight guidance, which realization is based on simulation of the missile silhouette over the pre-recorded videos of the background with fixed or moving target, is given in the paper. Coordinates of the target, read from the recorded videos of the background, are transformed to the real position of the target in the space. These target positions in function of time are input to the mathematical model of the missile movement relative to the target. The calculated coordinates of the missile are transformed to the missile silhouette position on the screen display of the flight simulator. The complete mathematical model and description of the hardware realization are given in the paper.