The Fundamentals of Salvo Warfare

Abstract

This thesis presents a detailed study of the fundamentals of modern naval surface missile combat and, thought the vehicles of combat modeling, simulation, and quantitative analysis, describes a method of evaluating tactics. It establishes three basic laws of naval combat, test the theory that undergirds the laws against a data set, and provides a thorough analysis of the results. Keywords: Computers, Scenarios, Combat entropy, Naval tactics, Naval combat modeling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA227003

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey R. Cares

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Sets
  • Equations
  • Land Warfare
  • Mathematics
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Operations Research
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Surface Warfare
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.