An Analysis of the Kill Chain for Time-Critical Strike

Abstract

The detection and destruction of Time-Critical Targets (TCTs) has been a challenge for our military. NAVAIR has investigated a future time-critical strike (TCS) architecture and concept of operations (CONOPS) in order to explore the effectiveness of high-speed weapons against TCTs. NAVAIR has implemented an architecture and CONOPS in a simulation model. This thesis extends NAVAIR's work by developing flexible models and exploring the effects that alternative CONOPS may have on high-speed weapon requirements and system performance against TCTs. The TCTs are a single wave of theater ballistic missile (TBM) transporter-erector-launchers (TELs) that appear over a short time interval and can saturate the command and control architectures considered. For the architecture and alternative CONOPS explored, it is difficult to improve upon the performance of the baseline TCS system developed of NAVAIR.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA435726

Entities

People

  • William K. Brickner

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Command And Control
  • Databases
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Guided Weapons
  • Launchers
  • Order Statistics
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Theater Ballistic Missiles
  • Time Critical Strike
  • Time Intervals
  • Transporter Erectors
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control