Weapon acquisition with target uncertainty

Ronald H. Nickel and Marc Mangel

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1985, vol. 32, issue 4, 567-588

Abstract: This article is concerned with choosing a mix of weapons, subject to constraints, when the targets to be attacked are known imprecisely. It is shown that the correct method for optimizing the mix of weapons involves a pair of nested optimization problems (two‐stage optimization). Two methods for optimizing the expected utility of a mix are discussed. The first involves a simultaneous attack model, in which it is implicitly assumed that all weapons are used at once. The second involves a sequential attack model, in which targets appear in random order and are attacked one at a time. Particular attention is given to the question of the appropriate mix of general‐purpose and special‐purpose weapons.

Date: 1985
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