Flight Testing for Weapons
Hi there,
I had been recently involved in testing of weapons from a rotary wing platform. Now that the weapons have been already selected they need to be integrated on this platform. Separation trials of these weapons have been planned in consultation with the supplier of these weapons though I'm not sure that I will be able to test these weapons in its entire envelope due to limitation of rounds made available for commercial reasons of supplier. Could somebody share experience on flight testing and proving of weapons integration especially if these are missiles which are not available in abundance for demonstration due to obvious commercial reasons. would it be right to let these weapons go to field pilots without having been flight tested for its flight envelope? What are the alternatives???