A Time-Discrete Vulnerability/Lethality (V/L) Process Structure.

Abstract

All real world military systems active within a battlefield can be considered dynamical systems, which are constantly changing or varying in terms of their descriptive parameters, such as position, velocity, field strength, and so on. In this report, a variation on the established Vulnerability/Lethality (V/L) Taxonomy is introduced, which could be used as an architecture for the integrated survivability, lethality, and vulnerability (SLV) analysis of a dynamic military system exposed to the full spectrum of battlefield threats, where the threats can be applied stochastically as a function of time. This methodology basically involves the introduction of a time axis orthogonal to the process flow within the current V/L process structure. The overall architecture of the new structure is first presented; then, each element within the architecture is examined in greater detail. Finally, an example application using the new structure to analyze a battlefield system is described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA320349

Entities

People

  • Brian G. Ruth
  • Phillip J. Hanes

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attack Helicopters
  • Battlefields
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Electromagnetic Shielding
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Explosives
  • Lethality
  • Random Variables
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Taxonomy
  • Vulnerability
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

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  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.