Abstract: To study the influence of firing accuracy on a certain vehicular Gatling gun in different road surface, a rigid-flexible coupling multi-body dynamic simulation model was established based on virtual prototyping technology. Considering the interaction relations between the tires and road surface, vehicle and machine gun, the vehicle vibration characteristics and the muzzle response characteristics and vertical-target dispersion were obtained by analyzing the machine gun system in different road surface. The influence of road surface on fire accuracy was demonstrated by contrasting and analyzing the simulation curves. The study results have provided a theoretical support and direction for the use of vehicular Gatling gun and test.

Key words: vehicular Gatling gun, rigid-flexible coupling model, road surface, dynamic characteristics, firing accuracy