The NATO Army Armaments Group (NAAG) Integrated Capability Group Indirect Fires (ICGIF), formerly Land Group 4, and their Sub Group 2 (SG2) on Surface to Surface Ballistics has created a widely used set of shareable fire control software using the

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programming language. This product is known as the SG2 Shareable (Fire Control) Software Suite (S4) and is sometimes abbreviated as S⁴ when referenced.

Fire-control system A fire-control system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director, and radar, which is designed to assist a ranged weapon system to target, track, and hit a target. It performs the same task as a ...

developers and most of the international (primarily NATO) ballistics communities are familiar with the mature NATO Armaments Ballistic Kernel (NABK) and other software component items that have emerged from the NABK development effort. The collection of these software items has been enhanced into the “suite” of NATO shareable fire control software. Significant development effort occurs in Aberdeen, Maryland, USA in the Firing Tables and Ballistics (FTaB) Division, Armaments Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) with contributions from a variety of agencies within participating NATO nations.

NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGS) and Supporting Research

The S4 implements a variety of NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) including

STANAG 4355 STANAG 4355 - The Modified Point Mass and Five Degrees of Freedom Trajectory Model, an element of military strategy, is a NATO Standardization Agreement for surface to surface exterior ballistic modelling in support of Artillery, mortar and rock ...

and

STANAG 6022 STANAG 6022 – Adoption of a Standard Gridded Data Meteorological Message is a NATO Standardization Agreement for gridded meteorological data for operational use in Artillery fire control systems, NBC Automated Warning, Reporting and Prediction ...

A number of papers and presentations have been published, such as a formal description of the early history of the suite and a later presentationhttps://www.aop-37.org/sites/s4_public_info/S4%20Document%20Information/NATO-Sharable_Software-Developing-into-True-Suite-Sep2008.pdf in the International Symposium of Ballistics (ISB) forum sponsored by th
International Ballistics Society (IBS)
http://www.hsu-hh.de/mit/index_tQ8Jt6q7o77XYTKW.html (S4 testing research and related contributions by Germany) http://www.hsu-hh.de/mit/index_6ErpEIxUgVmppHGV.html (Crest Clearance algorithm contributions by Germany)

Integrating Weapon Systems

Specific examples include:

Canada

* http://www.artillery.net/beta/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Vol-26-3-Winter-2011.pdf IFCSS (Page 8, DLR Technical Bulletin)

Denmark

* http://www.a-o-f.dk/PDF/DAT%202009-1.pdf SIF 2000 (Page 23)

France

* http://www.nexter-group.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110%3Alu-211-&catid=50%3Amunitions-dartillerie&Itemid=93&lang=en LU 211 Ammunition

Germany

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Artillery Gun Module The Artillery Gun Module (AGM, ''Artillerie-Geschütz-Modul'') is an air-portable self-propelled howitzer designed by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. It is based on technology used in the German Army Panzerhaubitze 2000 (PzH 2000) system, to provide mor ...

Norway

* https://www.kongsberg.com/kda ODIN FSS

Sweden

* http://www.fmv.se/WmTemplates/Page.aspx?id=1378 Archer

Turkey

* http://www.aselsan.com/content.aspx?mid=375&oid=543 FIRTINA Howitzer Fire Control System * http://www.aselsan.com/content.aspx?mid=375&oid=498 HAIKS Mortar Fire Direction System * http://www.aselsan.com/content.aspx?mid=375&oid=497 BAIKS-2000 Battery Fire Direction System * http://www.aselsan.com/content.aspx?mid=375&oid=542 76 mm. Naval Gun Fire Control System

United Kingdom

* http://www.janes.com/articles/Janes-C4I-Systems/Fire-Control-Application-FCA-United-Kingdom.html FCA * http://nigelef.tripod.com/fc_computer.htm#NEW_GENERATION FCBISA

United States

* https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2014/armaments/Wed16565_Arnold.pdf AFATDS (Slide 7)

References

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External links

* https://www.aop-37.org (S4 home page) * http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-11879817-AC96E660/natolive/structure.htm (NAAG location within the wider NATO Structures)
NABK BASED NEXT GENERATION BALLISTIC TABLE TOOLKIT, Sevsay Aytar Ortac, Umut Durak, Umit Kutluay, Koray Kucuk, Maj. Can Candan, 23RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BALLISTICS, TARRAGONA, SPAIN 16-20 APRIL 2007
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