Target Vulnerability to Air Defense Weapons.

Abstract

This thesis is intended to become a portion of the textbook utilized in the course entitled Warheads and Lethality (AE-3705). This portion of the text includes an unclassified discussion of a target's susceptibility to an externally detonating HE warhead and a target's vulnerability. In particular, the section on target susceptibility leads to the development of the number of fragments which strike a target aircraft from an externally detonating warhead. The section on target vulnerability explains the methodology used for identifying critical components and conducting a vulnerability assessment, and leads to the effects of fragments and penetrators striking an aircraft. Keywords include: Aircraft vulnerability; Aircraft susceptibility; Vulnerability assessment; Probability of kill; Critical components.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA155033

Entities

People

  • B. E. Reinard

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Ammunition
  • Computer Programs
  • Engineering
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • High Explosives
  • Munitions
  • Munitions Testing
  • Warheads

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering