Student created video compilation of activities throughout a year at the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, class 24-Bravo. The TPS mission is to create test leaders, develop school staff and conduct test research to accelerate multidomain capabilities to the warfighter. (Courtesy video by Keith Peskosky, Class 24B)
Before an aircraft ever flies, before a weapon system is put through its paces in the open air, it meets reality in a quieter, more controlled setting: ground test. But don’t let the name fool you. This isn’t just about data collection. This is where design decisions live or die. Where digital theory becomes physical fact. And at the Air Force Test Center, ground test is where the digital thread starts to become anchored in reality.
Before a new weapon system is ever built, flown or fired, it begins in a simulated environment digitally constructed, dynamically tested and refined in real time. This is the domain of modeling and simulation, the critical first phase in the development of lethality within the Air Force Test Center’s digital test enterprise.
