Letter to the Editor—Optimum Distribution of Armor

J. S. Rustagi and T. W. Doub
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J. S. Rustagi: The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
T. W. Doub: The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Operations Research, 1970, vol. 18, issue 3, 559-562

Abstract: Minimizing the probability of a kill given a hit has been utilized as a criterion for armor distribution on weapons such as tanks, a procedure that reduces to the well-known technique of dynamic programming, which is specially useful in this situation, since the design data involved are available only in numerical form.

Date: 1970
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