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SCOPE
1.1 General. This handbook is a reference document providing uniform
design and evaluation guidelines for the survivability enhancement of
aircraft Mission-Essential Weapon Systems (MEWS) for the Naval Air
Systems Command, to ensure that effective combat operations are achieved
when operating in a conventional weapon threat environment. The design
guidelines encompass signature suppression (or its control) and vulnerability
reduction. Those elements and design activities that are related to
survivability enhancement, but are derived from the degradation of
threat subsystem functions (e.g., electronic warfare) or from the ways
that the aircraft can be utilized in a hostile environment (e.g., tactics)
are not included. The evaluation guidelines, for the purpose of achieving
systematic quantification and evaluation of combat survivability, include
definition of mission scenario and associated threat environment, vulner-
ability to threat damage mechanisms, encounter survivability, and survivability
enhancement trade-offs.
1.2 Application. These guidelines are applicable to the procurement
of all Navy/Marine Corps aircraft MEWS, including remotely piloted
vehicles, but excluding systems designated solely for research and
training.
1.2.1 New MEWS programs. It is intended that this handbook be
applied throughout the materiel acquisition process beginning with the
reconciliation of alternative concepts (e.g., conceptual phase) to fill
a mission need, as may be set forth in the Mission Element Need Statement
(MENS), and extending through the entire life span of aircraft MEWS.
1.2.2 Existing MEWS programs. It is intended that this handbook be
applied to aircraft MEWS which have already begun full-scale engineering
development, production, modernization, improvement, and retrofit programs.
1.3 Implementation. This handbook should be used in conjunction with
aircraft detail specifications and other implementing documentation
(e.g., NAVMATINST 3900.16, NAVAIRINST 3920.1) in preparing combat surviva-
bility requirements. It may be included in requests for proposals,
contract statements of work, survivability program plans, and other
contractual documents. It is intended that this handbook be applied in
whole, or in part as specified in the implementing documentation, and
used as a supplement to MIL-STD-2069, and General Specification for
Design and Construction of Aircraft Weapon Systems, SD-24.
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