Aerospace Instrument-Making Annotation << Back PLANNING OF AIR FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING OF GROUP ACTIONS OF AIRCRAFT IN THE PROCESS OF TESTS S.V. Nikolaev, V.A. Toropov The issues of organizing and conducting group flight experiments are considered. The quantitative composition of the group of interacting aircraft is optimized taking into account the introduction of reserve aircraft from the condition of a minimum of economic costs for flight tests. This approach allows us to determine the rational number of aircraft that must be used in a flight experiment in assessing the combat capabilities of aircraft complexes during group actions. Currently, the task is relevant in connection with the growth of the capabilities of modern aviation systems to solve target tasks in a group of homogeneous aircraft. Presents the results of modeling modes of group navigation in solving various problems. The model was developed for testing group navigation conditions during flight tests, carrying out research and obtaining new data on the test object. The mode is new for modern aviation complexes and is being actively implemented to increase the probability of achieving the target tasks by a group of aircraft. Keywords: flight tests, modeling, group navigation, group aircraft actions. DOI: 10.25791/aviakosmos.12.2018.281 Contacts: E-mail: nikozavr@mail.ru Pp. 10-20.