An Overview of the "Greyscales" Lethality Assessment Methodology

Abstract

Greyscales is a method for producing estimates of guided missile miss distance and missile warhead probability of kill. The associated computer code has been written to be portable and capable of being incorporated into a variety of simulations. The code has already been integrated into the Weapon Systems Division MECA and DUEL missile engagement simulations. It can also be integrated into larger scale simulations where multiple engagements between various platforms are represented. Greyscales provides an improved means of assessing missile/target engagements without resorting to computationally intensive missile and warhead/target interaction models. This brief report describes the greyscales approach.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA541119

Entities

People

  • David Thomson

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Australia
  • Circular Error Probable
  • Estimators
  • Geometry
  • Guided Missiles
  • Lethality
  • Maneuvers
  • Miss Distance
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Distributions
  • Test Methods
  • Weapon Systems

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