| Summary: | Artillery of some NATO armies, especially of the former Eastern bloc states, still use the non-standard METEO11 meteorological messages for firing data calculations. If these countries are unable to carry out comprehensive meteorological soundings, the other states in the multinational task forces can distribute them the METB3 and METCM meteorological messages, standardized in NATO. There is a problem that they do not have adapted their fire control systems for using the METB3 or METCM meteorological messages and therefore they cannot be adequate partners for other NATO countries. This long-term incompatibility is caused by different model of tabular atmosphere and non-standard firing tables. In order for these countries to become fully interoperable partners in NATO, it was necessary to carry out a research to compile the METEO11 meteorological message from standardized meteorological products available to all NATO partner states. The paper summarizes the results of this research and analyses the accuracy of developed METEO11 alternative methods. Solving of the problem lies on the ability to compose METEO11 meteorological message according to an abstract of a measured meteorological data and in the ability to carry out conversions of the METB3 or METCM meteorological messages. Authors had derived all needed mathematical models, which they implemented into the new software "METEO11 MAKER" and "METCM and METB3 to METEO11".
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