Air Battles and Ground Battles - A Common Pattern

Abstract

A pattern of behavior is proposed that seems to be exhibited by historical air battles. This pattern is developed by analyzing data on the Battle of Britain and comparing the results obtained to similar findings already known to hold for the ground combat situation. The fact that this pattern is shared both by land battles and by the Battle of Britain (where the action was fought entirely in the air) suggests that it may be a fundamental characteristic of all military combat situations. The results are of intrinsic value independent of any application of the findings to testing war games or other models of combat, and should be of interest to all students of the military art.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0718975

Entities

People

  • Robert L. Helmbold

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Anti-Aircraft Weapons
  • Attrition
  • Data Analysis
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Information Science
  • Land Warfare
  • Losses
  • Spatial Distribution
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • War Games
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.