Analysis of Aircraft Evasion Strategies in Air-to-Air Missille Effectiveness Models

Abstract

This report presents a new methodology with which to quantify missile effectiveness and aircraft vulnerability. The approach is a blend of applications of optimal control theory, stochastic learning theory, and simulation. This methodology permits an evaluation of aircraft evasive maneuvering and countermeasures deployment strategy as an integral part of the effectiveness/vulnerability measurements. The strategy determination is a form of feedback control policy based upon a discretized set of information thresholds in the relative coordinate space as would be available to an evading aircraft pilot. The optimization criteria of an evading aircraft is that of maximizing the survival probability for all relative coordinates. The representative model chosen for illustration is evasion from a close range air- to-air IR guided missile.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA015238

Entities

People

  • G. Carpenter
  • M. Falco

Organizations

  • Grumman

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Detectors
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Guided Missiles
  • Kill Probabilities
  • Line Of Sight
  • Mathematical Models
  • Miss Distance
  • Simulations
  • Steady State
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Game Theory.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers