Determination of Aircraft Survival from a Surprise Nuclear Attack.

Abstract

Aircraft positioned at specified locations are subject to an attack from sea-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). This report presents a technique for the determination of the number of alert aircraft that can be destroyed by the first missile arriving on each base. The assignment problem, a special case of the linear programming transportation problem, is applied to arrive at the optimal allocation of missiles to targets. Aircraft losses are determined using a step distribution function for overpressure and thermal nuclear hardness levels which are input for each aircraft type being considered. A FORTRAN computer program which performs the calculations is presented.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA011587

Entities

People

  • Arthur R. Geldback
  • Harry F. Doyle
  • William F. Peay Iii

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Application Software
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Digital Information
  • Distribution Functions
  • Hardness
  • Linear Programming
  • Overpressure
  • Sea Launched
  • Survival
  • Transportation

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Systems Analysis and Design