The TESS Air IR sub-group covers passive infrared guided surface-to-air and air-to-air weapon systems. Within this group there is currently one TESS simulation covering generations 1, 2 and 3 of these IR missile systems:
SAAM(IR): Passive Infrared Homing Surface-to-Air and Air-to-Air Missiles
An integrated engagement simulation between one or two passive infrared homing surface-to-air or air-to-air missiles and a target aircraft. The aircraft can use up to four manoeuvres in azimuth and/or elevation to defend itself along with infrared flares, an on-board infrared jammer (Omni-directional or DIRCM) and a towed IR decoy. The target aircraft can be fixed or rotary winged and configured with 1, 2 or 4 engines. The infrared aircraft signatures are user entered radiant intensity profiles for each source based on wavelength and aspect angle. The missile’s infrared homing seeker model supports generations 1, 2 and 3 with spin scan, conscan, rosette and four-detector array angle tracking and spiral and rosette search techniques. The missile seeker also includes selectable one or two color discrimination; its missile guidance is by proportional navigation autopilot. The propagation environment includes user-defined IR attenuation characteristics which may be MODTRAN generated, and background radiant intensity signature. The IR jammer employs swept amplitude modulation techniques. All electronic countermeasures can be employed individually or in combination against all search, acquisition and track modes of the missile seeker.
