Multi-disciplinary design approaches and performance assessment of future combat aircraft

FOREWORD

Future military air vehicles have to be effective and agile for certain operations like Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD) missions. This requires a platform design with high survivability and assertiveness resulting into a nonlinear character of the flow field and Stability & Control (S&C) properties. This results in very challenging aerodynamic design, effective control and propulsion system as well as novel structural concepts.

The intention of the Specialists' Meeting was to share and expand the knowledge of design and performance prediction capabilities of future agile combat fighter aircraft within the NATO community.  

Author(s): Carsten M. Liersch; Russell M. Cummings; Andreas Schütte  

DOI: 10.14339/STO-AVT-324-1     |     ISSN: TBD  

This article provides an overview about the activities performed within the NATO STO Research Task Group AVT-251 on “Multi-Disciplinary design and performance assessment of effective, agile NATO Air Vehicles”.

Author(s): Eric Coiro; Sidonie Lefebvre; Romain Ceolato  

DOI: 10.14339/STO-AVT-324-7     |     ISSN: TBD  

Infrared Stealth is an important aspect in the design and performance assessment of the future combat aircraft. In this paper, we propose a statistical approach based on an aircraft signature code to assess the impact of different technology choices

Author(s): Martin Sohst; Jose Vale; Curran Crawford; Graham Potter; Sid Banerjee  

DOI: 10.14339/STO-AVT-324-3     |     ISSN: TBD  

A novel Strut-Braced Wing (SBW) configuration is compared to a cantilevered High Aspect Ratio Wing (HARW) based on the Predator drone. Both configurations are optimized for maximum load factor bearing capability subject to a maximum mass, maximum structural stress and minimum aerodynamic efficiency (L/D) constraints