Degraded States Vulnerability Analysis of a Foreign Armored Fighting Vehicle
Abstract
Since 1990, the Ballistic Vulnerability/Lethality Division (BVLD) of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) (formerly the Vulnerability/Lethality Division VLD of the U.S. Army Ballistic Research laboratory BRL, and the U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity AMSAA) have been using the Degraded States (DS) Vulnerability Methodology (DSVM) for vulnerability calculations. The DSVM determines the (possibly) degraded, but operational, state of a combat system following an encounter with a damage mechanism. The methodology was tested on a U.S. armored fighting vehicle for both single shot (Abell, Roach, and Starks 1989) and view average vulnerability estimates (Abell, Burdeshaw, and Rickter 1990) for a representative set of initial conditions. This report details the first analysis to be completed during implementation; specifically, a foreign armored fighting vehicle (AFV). As shown in previous degraded states analyses, the Degraded States metrics provide a more detailed vulnerability assessment than the Damage Assessment List (DAL) methodology. The purpose of this analysis was to illustrate further the value of the Degraded States metrics by comparing Degraded States results with DAL results and to expand the pool of combat systems for which Degraded States metrics have been calculated.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA273416
Entities
People
- John M. Abell
- Lisa K. Roach
- Mark D. Burdeshaw
- Scott K. Price
Organizations
- United States Army Research Laboratory