The Hungarian field artillery fire control system ARPAD and its comparison with other systems

Abstract

Beginning with the early 1980s, development of three generations of the ARPAD system has continuously proven that Hungarian artillery specialists and engineers are capable of keeping pace in the field of artillery fire control systems. In Part 1 the reader will become acquainted with the formation and the present features of the ARPAD fire control system including the phases of its development and an outlook of the possible future improvements. In Part 2 the ARPAD system is compared with other systems using a new approach based on mathematical methods of theory of complex systems.