Generalized Weapon Effectiveness Modeling

Abstract

In this thesis we compare weapon effectiveness methods to determine if current effectiveness models provide accurate results. The United States Military currently adheres to a compilation of data and methodologies named the Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals (JMEM) to determine the effectiveness of air delivered weapons against a variety of ground targets. Since the time these manuals were implemented in the 196Os progress in technology has allowed the weapon/target interaction to be more accurately modeled. This thesis investigates the differences of these high fidelity models for unguided weapons and the JMEM computations in order to determine whether the older more simplistic models need to be upgraded.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA424672

Entities

People

  • Colin M. Anderson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Blast Waves
  • Computer Programming
  • Engineering
  • Explosives
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • High Explosives
  • Impact Point
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Munitions
  • Normal Distribution
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Reliability
  • United States
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Science.
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.