A “Universal” Attrition Model

Robert L. Helmbold
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Robert L. Helmbold: Combat Operations Research Group, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia

Operations Research, 1966, vol. 14, issue 4, 624-635

Abstract: Starting with a basic model of volley fire against a group of homogeneous passive targets, a series of discrete approximations to the expected number of surviving targets is proposed. Some of these yield quite good approximations over a reasonably wide range of parameter values. Continuous analogues of these approximations are described, and it is shown how various Lanchester-type equations arise in a natural way from these continuous analogues.

Date: 1966
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