Flight Test of Pasopati Electrical Cruise Missile

Abstract

Cruise missiles are very strategic air defense facilities that are very important to be developed. The development of electric ducted fan (EDF) cruise missiles is the first step to find out the characteristics of cruise missiles before entering jet turbine cruise missiles. After the airframe has been manufactured, the next stage is the design of the avionics system and flight test to obtain the missile performance. This research is intended to design the Pasopati Cruise Missile avionics system for a distance of 40 km with an Electric Ducted Fan engine and conducted flight tests to measure missile capabilities. Avionics systems are designed according to the mechanical needs of missiles with certain specifications, which are then tested flying in autonomous mode by carrying out missions through predetermined waypoints and analyzing the stability of the parameters of airborne missile flight, Avionics systems will use Flight Controller and Mission Planner as Ground Control Station and 433MHz RxTc Xtend Communication Module as a medium for sending data via radio waves. The results of this study are Flight Properties of Electric Cruise Missiles with a distance of as far as 40 km, flight over waypoints accurately, and produce coincident characteristics of actual attitudes and navigation output which then can be used as a reference for the next development stage of the avionics system and the flight test procedure of the electric cruise missile.