TRAIL: A Ship-Trailing Model,

Abstract

This Research Contribution describes a methodology for assessing enemy ability to trail friendly ships at sea. It consists of four parts. The first part treats the search for a lost quarry by shipborne helicopter or long-range reconnaissance aircraft. The second describes a Markov model yielding the fraction of time the ship is free of trail. The third part estimates enemy aircraft requirements to achieve specific search results. The last part presents and documents an APL program, TRAIL, that performs all required calculations. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA119387

Entities

People

  • Maurice M. Mizrahi

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Reconnaissance
  • Aircrafts
  • Differential Equations
  • Eigenvalues
  • Equations
  • Helicopters
  • Markov Chains
  • Markov Models
  • Markov Processes
  • Models
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Reconnaissance
  • Reconnaissance Aircraft
  • Steady State

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.