Assessment of Damage Aggregation for Weapons Salvos.

Abstract

Estimation of the expected proportion of an area target destroyed by a salvo of weapons is an important problem in weapons systems effectiveness studies. Analysts sometimes use an approximate formula called the empirical rule for this purpose. Esary demonstrated that this rule consistently over estimates the parameter of interest. In this report, we propose a modification to the empirical rule that appears to provide significantly improved estimates of the cumulative damage.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA327197

Entities

People

  • I. B. Russak
  • Toke Jayachandran

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Binomials
  • California
  • Classification
  • Damage
  • Damage Assessment
  • Equations
  • Errors
  • Information Operations
  • Logarithm Functions
  • Mathematics
  • Polynomials
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Security
  • Standards

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.
  • Statistical inference.