Modelling Combat as a Series of Mini-Battles

Abstract

This report is concerned with investigating the possibility of decomposing a main battle into a number of smaller engagements, or mini battles. The main sources of data were armour/anti armour combat trials held in Europe and the USA. Results of the data analysis are presented, together with conclusions as to how these might be used in the formulation of a network combat model. Various network and attrition methodologies are investigated with a view to finding appropriate methods for incorporation in such a model. The objective in analyzing this data was to determine how the decomposition of a large battle into a series of smaller engagements is determined by the detail of a given scenario (ie. terrain, deployment, objectives) and to assess the extent to which this decomposition could be modelled statistically. To this end, a number of FORTRAN programs were constructed to produce statistics relating to battle structure and decomposition from the Chinese Eye data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 30, 1988
Accession Number
ADA202842

Entities

People

  • J. G. Manwell
  • Kenneth R. Mcnaught
  • Michael R. Bathe

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Classification
  • Computational Science
  • Contracts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Deployment
  • Equations
  • Information Science
  • Models
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • United States
  • Weapon Systems

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  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Military Science
  • Systems Analysis and Design