L30 — Project 3 Presentations

L30 — Project 3 Presentations#

Block 3 closes with your results. Each group briefs its signature trade study to the design review, HW3 comes due, and Quiz 3 checks that the block's physics stuck.

Presentation logistics#

  • 10 minutes of group results presentation plus 5 minutes of Q&A.

  • Every member speaks.

  • Slides (PDF) and code are due before class starts. Late deliverables require coordination at least 24 hours in advance; non-coordinated late submissions receive a zero.

  • The audience is the design review: lead with the recommended package, then defend it — which band limits and whether it ever changes hands, what the terminal threat cost you in detection range, and whether your answer survives when the aircraft turns.

  • Innovation bonus: up to +5% for analysis or visualization that goes meaningfully beyond the tasking — a full aspect sweep, a budget-sensitivity study, a threat-conditioned kill probability, an honest negative result. The budget search and the aspect check at nose, beam, and tail are required, not bonus. See the handout.

Also due today#

  • HW3 — Signatures and IR EW is due at the start of class. Individual work; see HW3.

  • Quiz 3 is taken in class: open book, 15 minutes, individual. It covers your project work and the Block 3 topics (L21–L29). If you did the project honestly, the quiz is a victory lap.

What’s next#

Block 3 is complete: you can read the infrared spectrum, defeat a seeker, shape and treat an airframe’s radar cross-section, and fuse every band into one loudest-band budget. Block 4 — Aircraft Survivability and Mission Planning integrates the whole toolkit — low observability, electronic warfare, and tactics — into a survivable mission against a modern integrated air-defense system.

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