A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Strategies Using the Joint Theater Level Simulation Model

Abstract

This thesis seeks to determine if US Army Defense Artillery (ADA) units positioned in a belt defense perform better than the point defense that the US Army currently uses. It does this through a comparison of three ADA defense strategies: (1) Forward Concentration (belt defense); (2) Balanced Concentration (point defense); and (3) Rear Area Concentration (point defense). The Joint Theater Level Simulation, a computer combat simulation model, is used as a tool for analysis to compare the three strategies in a Fulda Gap scenario against a variety of Soviet attack options. The JTLS model is used because of its ability to simulate large forces and also to demonstrate the value of JTLS as an analytical tool, in addition to a training and evaluation tool. Using the following measures of effectiveness: Soviet airplanes shot down by US ADA, percentage of successful Soviet bombing missions, and number of US ground- targets destroyed, the forward concentration defense proves to have a significant advantage over the other two strategies, regardless of the weighting of the measures of effectiveness.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA241037

Entities

People

  • David M. Savage

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Ammunition
  • Bomber Aircraft
  • Combat Simulations
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Defense Systems
  • Measures Of Effectiveness
  • Operations Research
  • Point Defense
  • Rear Areas
  • Simulations
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation