Errata to Crisis Stability Indices for Adaptive Two-Layer Defenses

Abstract

An earlier treatment overestimated the survivability of an attacker's non-alert aircraft and hence their contribution to his first strike. This report corrects the error and discusses its impact, which is primarily important for ground-based defenses. It reduces the attacker's aircraft survival rates to about those of the defender's, improving the stability properties of space-based defenses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA339266

Entities

People

  • Gregory H. Canavan

Organizations

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Attack Aircraft
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Boost Phase
  • California
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Governments
  • Ground Based
  • New Mexico
  • Probability
  • Space Based
  • Survivability
  • Survival
  • Technical Information Centers
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space