Revision of Lockheed Martin's
Human Type Target for Manufacturability
Team #7
Lockheed Martin desires to produce a human type target system, resembling a human in size, shape, and appearance, which will react appropriately to being hit with small arms fire. This will be done via hit sensors on the target, which will be able to detect vibrations caused by a bullet being fired into the target. The target itself will be a commonly available mannequin, sold for use specifically as a small arms target. This report shall serve the purpose of clearly stating and describing the problems and needs which the project will face, and the tasks which will be accomplished by Team #7 in order to aid Lockheed Martin in producing a system as they have envisioned. Seeing as the mannequin is indeed commercially
available, and the fall mechanism itself has already been invented by Lockheed Martin and is currently patent pending, Team #7 is tasked with revising the prototype and making improvements on it to bring it to a production ready state. This will include designing, at a minimum, a stand for the target, an interface plate between the target and stand, interface adapters, hit sensors, and a test stand to activate the fall mechanism. The final outcome of this project will be an operational human type target which will fall when hit with an appropriate sequence of small arms fire, including ready for manufacturing designs of the aforementioned components.
The deliverables below show the current progress of our project.
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