Development & Incorporation of a New Smoke Module for the Vector-In-Commander Model
Abstract
The difficulty with factoring smoke/dust into combat power is that these obscurants are, in general, not lethal. In an effort to determine the effects of these obscurants, the US Army initiated the Comprehensive Smoke Study (CSS). At the corps level, the proponents of the CSS intended to represent the many different aspects of smoke usage, to include logistics, the actual deployment of the obscurant, and an approximation of its effects. The Army's Corps level combat model, Vector-In-Command (VIC), did not have a smoke module capable of representing these different aspects of smoke usage. To remedy this deficiency, the Corps Support division of the Combat Simulation Directorate at TRAC-WSMR was tasked develop a smoke module capable of meeting these requirements. A product of the Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory called the Combined Obscuration Model for Battlefield-Induced Contaminants (COMBIC) portrays the various delivery systems and obscurant types the CSS wished to employ. However COMBIC is a high-resolution model, in contrast with the VIC model which simulates the battlefield at an aggregate level. Keywords: Smoke, Obscurants, Combat simulation models, Force-on-force, Stability, Corps level analysis, Non-linear effects, Measures of effectiveness, Combat environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA228048
Entities
People
- Daniel W. Tulloh
- Dennis L. Bechtlofft