Barrier Research
Abstract
To inhibit or prevent enemy movement and to channel it in the most advantageous directions, new barrier techniques are desirable. The techniques would embody the following advantages: improved selective mobility of friendly forces (with respect to the enemy), controllability and responsiveness to change requirements in fluid situations, low cost and logistics burden, rapid deploy-ability, and reusability of it for subsequent use. Previous conferences had concluded that antitank mines by themselves are inadequate as land barriers, and had determined that a barrier program with the goal of reducing logistical. and operations requirements by a factor of 10 to 1 was mandatory and 100 to 1 was desirable. Specifically the desirable goal was to reduce the current 36 tons of equipment and 815 man hours required to install a barrier on a 1000 meter front to 700 lbs and 8 man hours for the same frontage. One promising approach to the problem was a "controlled barrier". This envisions a barrier system designed to engage a target in the prescribed zone. An unattended system would attack targets within 25 - 500 meters from the desired barrier; an attended barrier might have a range of up to 1000 meters.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD1173833
Entities
People
- Harold C. Weber
- Henry F. Magill
- Henry G. Houghton
- John A. Ulrich
- Leslie E. Simon
- Roger D. Revelle
- Theodore Sterne
- William F. Ryan