The Effects of Degraded Vision and Automatic Combat Identification Reliability on Infantry Friendly Fire Engagements

Abstract

Fratricide is one of the most devastating consequences of any military conflict Target identification failures have been identified as the last link in a chain of mistakes that can lead to fratricide. Other links include weapon and equipment malfunctions, command, control, and communication failures, navigation failures, fire discipline failures, and situation awareness failures. This research examined the effects of degraded vision and combat identification reliability on the time-stressed decision of a dismounted infantryman;to engage friendly or threat targets.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA415968

Entities

People

  • Timothy M. Kogler

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automation
  • Control Systems
  • Friendly Fire
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Identification Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Reliability
  • Research Facilities
  • Security
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Software Engineering
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.