A Simulation Model of Attack Helicopter Vulnerability to Hostile Artillery Fire.

Abstract

This thesis presents a methodology which simulates the activity, near the FEBA, of the Army's attack helicopter and the activity of hostile artillery in two formats : uniformly distributed area fire and precision fire against a point target as directed by a forward observer. A stochastic computer simulation was developed that varies the modeled activities from one replication to another. Current concepts of attack helicopter employment in the anti-armor role are used. Concepts of intervisibility, detectability, target location error, C-cubed time delay, and artillery round-to-round dispersion are also incorporated in the model. The model was experimented upon, using a hypothetical artillery weapon system, and the vulnerability predictions of the model are displayed and analyzed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA069753

Entities

People

  • Emil H. Koenig Iii

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artillery
  • Artillery Fire
  • Attack Helicopters
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Detection
  • Employment
  • Helicopters
  • Howitzers
  • Indirect Fire
  • Observers
  • Simulations
  • Vehicles
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.
  • Military Science