Attrition Rates for Weapons with Markov-Dependent Fire

Stephen R. Kimbleton
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Stephen R. Kimbleton: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Operations Research, 1971, vol. 19, issue 3, 698-706

Abstract: A weapon is said to have a Markov-dependent firing policy if the result of the current round is conditioned on the outcome of the preceding round. For such a weapon we obtain the distribution of the number of rounds required to defeat a target. From this result we derive the distribution of the time required to destroy a target and the expected value of the Lanchester attrition-rate coefficient.

Date: 1971
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