Tarragona, Spain: 23rd international symposium on ballistics 16-20 April 2007.Traditionally tabulated and graphical firing data were widely used for the solution of the fire control problems. While contemporarily computer based fire control systems enable quick and accurate results, traditional tables are still in charge as backup. It is of vital importance that solutions obtained by both methods should match within an acceptable tolerance, which can be accomplished by using same ballistic kernel.
Currently NATO Armament Ballistic Kernel (NABK-previously NATO Artillery Ballistic Kernel), which is developed by an international team of different countries including Turkey, with the scope of being joint fire control solution for different armaments including light arms, mortars, artillery and rockets, stands as this ballistic kernel.
This paper provides a brief overview of NABK and its layers which are used as the bases of the toolkit developed by TUBITAK-SAGE for the generation of ballistic tables. Until today three different products developed as a part of the toolkit to be used for three different applications, namely tabular firing tables and graphical firing tables for artillery, bombing tables for unguided aircraft bombs.
