Preliminary Criteria for Optimizing the Cost Effectiveness of System Improvements to Enhance Survivability

Abstract

The Lanchester law of combat has been used to develop a figure of merit for survivability. The economic principle of marginal utility has been applied to demonstrate a proposed method of evaluating the cost-effectiveness of various possible survivability enhancing improvements. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA064115

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  • Richard L. Moore

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Ammunition
  • Army
  • Artillery
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Economic Analysis
  • Figure Of Merit
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Guided Projectiles
  • Guns
  • Incendiary Bombs
  • Machine Guns
  • Munitions
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Systems Analysis
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

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