Determination of Distribution of Aimpoints Against a Moving Target.

Abstract

The determination of the optimal distribution of aimpoints is examined for weapons that fire fragmenting projectiles against mobile targets. A finite difference approximation which reduces the problem to a mathematical programming problem is developed. Computational considerations for this nonlinear programming problem are discussed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0721551

Entities

People

  • William Andrew Hesser

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Computer Programming
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Mathematics
  • Moving Targets
  • Nonlinear Programming
  • Operations Research
  • Projectiles
  • Targets
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Missile Defense Systems.