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Problems of Guided Weapons Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Lord Caldecote
Lord Caldecote*
Affiliation:
Guided Weapons, BAC (Operating) Ltd.
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Development is the process by which a design conceived to meet a practical requirement is transformed from drawings, and perhaps a working prototype, to a piece of fully engineered hardware suitable for production which will meet the original requirement for performance (including reliability) and cost in a time-scale which makes it useful.

There are thus three main parameters in development: performance, cost and time, which are inextricably related to each other, and which must be constantly in mind during a development programme.

The technical aspect of development consists largely of optimising a basic design, making and proving individual parts of it, particularly where new technology is involved, and finally making and proving the complete equipment.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 69 , Issue 651 , March 1965 , pp. 147 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1965

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References

A Main Lecture of the Society given at the Cambridge Branch on 6th November 1964.