Chapter 3 Self Test

Question 0

(223) 2. What is the magnetic tape called that controls the computers of the B-52H OAS?

Answer 0

The operational computer program (OCP)

Question 1

(223) 1. What is the maximum number of missile the B-52H can carry?

Answer 1

20 AGM-86B/C missiles

Question 2

(223) 3. Which program performs launcher, pylon, and missile simulator checkouts?

Answer 2

The weapon preload tester computer program (WPTCP)

Question 3

(223) 4. List the five offensive avionics system subsystems.

Answer 3

Interface, computational, control and display (CAD), navigation and guidance, and weapon control and delivery

Question 4

(223) 5 How does the computational subsystem of the offensive avionics system receive and transmit data?

Answer 4

Over the MIL-STD-1553A data bus

Question 5

(223) 6. Which offensive avionics system subsystem provides control and supervision of navigation and bombing, and missile initialization and launch?

Answer 5

Control and display

Question 6

(223) 7. What are the two jettison modes provided by the B-52H weapon control and delivery subsystem?

Answer 6

Missile and pylon

Question 7

(223) 8. What environmental system is used for heating or cooling the missiles and missile interface unit/nuclear station logic unit on the B-52H?

Answer 7

The missile conditioning system (MCS)

Question 8

(223) 9. What is an ejector?

Answer 8

An electromechanical device that attaches to the missile’s forward and aft clevis assemblies and is then secured to either a pylon or a launcher.

Question 9

(223) 10. What ejector is used to launch the air-launched cruise missile/conventional air-launched cruise missile from the B-52H?

Answer 9

The MAU-12D/A ejector

Question 10

(223) 11. What piece of equipment provides the interface between the missile/ejector package and the carrier aircraft avionics control unit?

Answer 10

The MIU (also called the decoder/receiver)

Question 11

(223) 12. What does the nuclear station logic unit provide?

Answer 11

The interface between the controlling ACU and the ejectors on the CSRL.

Question 12

(223) 13. What is the purpose of the aircraft pylon?

Answer 12

It’s on aerodynamic interface between the B-52H and cruise missiles.

Question 13

(223) 14. What is the maximum number of missiles a B-52H pylon support?

Answer 13

Six

Question 14

(223) 15. What routes the supplied air to each missile and the missile interface unit?

Answer 14

A manifold within the pylon

Question 15

(223) 16. When can pylon jettison be performed?

Answer 15

Anytime the operator deems it necessary.

Question 16

(223) 17. What systems make up the common strategic rotary launcher?

Answer 16

Power, environmental control, monitor and control, and mechanical

Question 17

(223) 18. If a missile has been launched, what happens to the cooling air?

Answer 17

The bypass valves route the cooling air directly to the return lines.

Question 18

(223) 19. What provides the interface between the controlling avionics control unit and the ejector?

Answer 18

The NucSLU

Question 19

(223) 20. What does the mechanical system of the common strategic rotary launcher allow?

Answer 19

The rotation of the launcher shaft to place the selected weapon at the six o’clock position for release.

Question 20

(224) 1. What is accomplished to ensure integration is working after mating a common strategic rotary launcher to the aircraft?

Answer 20

MIT and/or SIT tests are used to perform checkouts of the A/C weapon system integration components

Question 21

(224) 2. What is the MIT used to verify?

Answer 21

Communication between the weapon and the aircraft

Question 22

(224) 3. The WCE includes which equipment?

Answer 22

The power drive unit controller (PDUC), MIU, environmental control unit (ECU), and armament interface unit (AIU)

Question 23

(224) 4. What must be accomplished prior to initiating troubleshooting of weapon system faults?

Answer 23

The payload(s) must be isolated

Question 24

(224) 5. When can aircraft be reloaded with weapons following a CRITICAL fault?

Answer 24

After it has been repaired and the repair verified through functional checkout

Question 25

(224) 6. The power change record provides what information?

Answer 25

It will show if and when MIU power was turned on and off for each CSRL/pylon position.

Question 26

(224) 7. The word in column five of the ADCU memory dump corresponds to what address?

Answer 26

Address of 3 plus the address in column 1

Question 27

(224) 8. What is used to determine original faults if multiple faults are indicated during the ADCU memory dump?

Answer 27

The OAS fault message