Combat modeling of remotely targeted vehicles and a battery against a moving target

Chang S. Sung and Young H. Sohn

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 1998, vol. 45, issue 7, 645-667

Abstract: This paper considers a combined system composed of multiple stand‐by remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) and a single battery against a single passive enemy target, where the target, if not killed, is allowed to change its location after each attack. The RPV has the duty to report on target acquisition, to confirm a target kill, and to pass information on any change in target location after each battery attack. The battery has the duty to attack the target on the basis of the target location information provided to it by the RPV. We develop a closed‐form expression for the time‐dependent state probabilities of the system, which can be used to compute several important combat measures of effectiveness, including (a) the time‐varying mean and variance of the number of the RPVs being alive and of the surviving enemy target, (b) the mission success, mission failure, and combat draw probabilities, and (c) the mean and variance of the combat duration time. Illustrative numerical examples are solved for these combat measures, and sensitivity analyses are performed with respect to target acquisition time and target kill probability. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 45: 645–667, 1998

Date: 1998
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