METHOD FOR ALLOCATING AND ASSIGNING DEFENSIVE WEAPONS AGAINST ATTACKING WEAPONS

Abstract

The present method includes estimating for each kth one of K attack weapons a target threat value, Pk, and for each available counter-weapons a counter-threat value, Pk, against each kth attack weapon. Prospective counter-weapon allocations are tabulated. Each ith allocation has Ni counter-weapons and for each a reduced target threat value: ##EQU1## is computed, xki being equal to the integer number of counter-weapons in the ith allocation assigned to a kth one of the attack weapons, assuming one type of counter-weapons. The set of xki 's that causes ERi to be a minimum is the optimum counter-weapon assignment for the ith allocation. One of the prospective allocations is selected for a first "shoot-look" cycle in which the Ni counter-weapons are assigned according to the optimum xki 's. The procedure may be repeated for subsequent "shoot-look" cycles. If there aare more than one type of counter-weapons, ERi is obtained by the equation: ##EQU2## wherein xlki is the integer number of the counter-weapons of the lth type assigned to the kth attack weapon and L is the total number of different counter-weapon types. The set of xlki 's causing ERi to be a minimum is the optimum counter-weapon assignment for the allocation.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Inventor

• 1THOMAS W. LUCAS