Degraded States Vulnerability Analysis: Phase 2

Abstract

In 1988, the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) and the Army Material Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA) began a joint program to develop improved metrics for use in vulnerability assessments, especially of ground combat vehicles. Traditional tank vulnerability metrics have made use of a mapping procedure called damage assessment lists (DALs). A DAL maps killed components and sets of components into degradation of combat utility DCU). It has been known for a number of years that the use of DALs in the process of developing vulnerability measures of effectiveness is conceptually and mathematically problematic. Recent DAL work led to renewed focus on the problems associated with DAls, and to a proposal for their yields the probabilities that a tank is in one or more degraded states.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA231021

Entities

People

  • Bruce A. Rickter
  • John M. Abell
  • Mark D. Burdeshaw

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Army Aviation
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Computer Science
  • Damage Assessment
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

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