The Effect of Staying Power on Offensive and Defensive Power of a Modern Warship

Abstract

This thesis develops the relationship between the three major attributes of a modern warship: staying power, offensive power, and defensive power. Based on W. Hughes' Salvo Model, we show that there is an inverse linear relationship between a ship's staying power and its defensive power and a nonlinear relationship between its staying power and its offensive power. Using the embellishments that E. Hatzopoulos added regarding scouting effectiveness and alertness, we also compare the results for survivability with A. Lalis obtained from the Hatzopoulos model using scouting and alertness. We examine survivability using defensive power (or equivalently staying power, because of their linear relationship) and also offensive power.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA265337

Entities

People

  • Dimitrios Sakellariou

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Battles
  • Classification
  • Computer Simulations
  • Equations
  • Equations Of State
  • Gain
  • Losses
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematics
  • Naval Warfare
  • Operations Research
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Survivability
  • Uncertainty
  • Warfare

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  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies