A New Formulation of Lanchester Combat Theory,
Abstract
Lanchester's differential equations of combat are inherently deterministic in nature, although considerable effort has been devoted in recent years to introducing stochastic type treatment into the theory by dealing with transition probabilities and variable attrition coefficients, for example. The authors advance the advantageous idea here that the time-to-kill or time-to-neutralize key opposing targets would seem to be the more logical random variable which should be treated on a probabilistic basis, and hence that the fraction of remaining combatants on each side should properly be estimated from the time-to-kill probability distributions sampled, or in other words from principles of the statistical theory of reliability and life-testing. (Modified author abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0761081
Entities
People
- Frank E. Grubbs
- John H. Shuford
Organizations
- Ballistic Research Laboratory