Morning (PDT) to all of the TML,

 

I have finally gone through all of the QSDS 1.5e Standard Sensor Systems and decided to do an overview of my findings before posting the ones that I couldn’t match.

 

1. All Medium Military packages power and crew requirements need to be re-calculated based on the change that the back-up system does not require power or additional crew per the email posted to the TML on 5/12/15 time stamped 10:58 AM.

 

2. All the packages appear to be calculated for fixed antenna arrays, even though several of the Min Length listings are for folding arrays. On 5/5/15 I recommended that the Basic and Improved sensors have fixed antenna arrays and the military packages use folding arrays based on the TNE FF&S Mk I Mod 0 HRT/PEMS antenna rules. Per the reply received on 5/5/15 time stamped 2:22 PM Guy Garnett agreed to give the recommendation a try. The latest spreadsheet has text that shows the min length, volume, power, cost, and area for both fixed and folding arrays for all sensor packages.

 

3. TL-9 packages

     A. The Basic and Improved Min Length values are for folding antenna arrays while the calculations for volume, power, cost, area, and crew are for a 10 meter fixed antenna array.

     B. The final cost of the all four TL-9 packages have increased with the update from the Consolidated TNE Errata document and TNE: Brilliant Lances Technical Booklet that the Radar antenna has a price/cost equal to Antenna Area x 0.05.

 

4. TL-10

     A. The Basic and Improved packages matched my calculations as shown in the Standard Sensor Systems Table on QSDS 1.5e p. 10.

     B. The Small Military package is a bit of an issue based on the reply received on the TML on 4/28/15 (time stamped 9:21 AM) that indicates that the package has a Jammer with a USD of J2 and another reply on 5/12/15. As a result I ran the Small Military package through the spreadsheet with and without a jammer. I was able to match table specification without a jammer and with a jammer I was out to lunch.

    C. The Medium Military package is not a match with the removal of the power and crew requirement for the back-up system.

 

5. TL-11

     A. I have not successfully matched the volume, power, cost, or area for the Basic package yet.

     B. The only specification for the Small Military package I did not match is antenna area.

     C. The Medium Military package is not a match with the removal of the power and crew requirement for the back-up system.

 

6. TL-12

     A. The Basic and Improved packages matched my calculations as shown in the Standard Sensor Systems Table on QSDS 1.5e p. 10.

     B. The only specification for the Small Military package I did not match is antenna area.

     C. The Medium Military package is not a match with the removal of the power and crew requirement for the back-up system.

 

The next posts will be made showing my calculations for separately for each of the sensor packages which I hope will not exceed the email package size limitation. Also, if anyone would like a copy of the MS Excel 2010 spreadsheet please send me an email off the list even though Ethan McKinney did recommend possible sites for posting on the web. I don’t feel that my spreadsheets need to take up space on the web since they are basically working, at least I think they work correctly, drafts that need a lot of polishing.

 

Tom Rux