Justification of the Calculation Order of Efficiency Indicators of Armored Fighting Vehicles Damaging by the Direct Fire of Prospective Anti-Tank Means

Abstract

Modern means of fire influence in the traditional performance in recent years have not undergone any structural changes. However, certain areas of development of scientific and technical activities of mankind have made it possible to rethink approaches to the lethality of weapons. However, the so-called high-precision munitions, which have taken a fairly clear position in the weapons market have both a number of significant advantages in use, and no less than a list of disadvantages, one of which is the cost of production. However, the world's fleet of armored combat vehicles is growing steadily, while the list of anti-tank weapons is limited to anti-tank missile systems and, in some cases, single samples of anti-tank guns. The calculation of efficiency indicators today is traditionally based on the defeat of an armored vehicle by direct hit of a fragmentation and high-explosive projectile, rather than its so-called «useful fragments». The experience of recent local wars and conflicts requires increasing demands for new samples, characterized by the compilation of a means of destruction, a means of delivering fragile mass to a target, as well as the means of reconnaissance and the control devices of these components of fire influence on enemy armor. This problem can be solved by means of prospective anti-tank automatic cannons in combination with fragmentation and reconnaissance missiles and reconnaissance devices, including airborne (UAV, «flying platforms» type balloon). In addition to analyzing the directions of improving the means of defeat of combat armored vehicles, the mathematical apparatus by which it is possible to determine the expected consumption of shells on the target, which provides the effectiveness of firing, the ways of calculating the effectiveness indicators of damage to combat armored personnel by direct fire of prospective anti-tank means without shooting in return.

Building a model of the process of shooting a mobile armored target with directed fragmentation-beam shells in the form of a discrete-continuous stochastic system

“…The peculiarity of the proposed approach to devising a model of the shooting process is the use of verbal-to-describe procedures, the application of basic events taking into consideration various processes and procedures that are included in the algorithm of behavior of the shooting process. At the same time, indicators of the functionality of the execution of certain procedures of the shooting process are represented in the form of probability and are continuation of the research reported in [9].…”

“…After all, the process of shooting a tank-type AFV, despite their rapid quantitative growth, is limited to a list of anti-tank missile systems and single samples of anti-tank guns. It should be noted that work [9] attempted to justify ways to calculate the effectiveness of direct damage to armored fighting vehicles from promising anti-tank means but without taking into consideration the shooting in response.…”

“…Our review of appropriate studies [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] has revealed an urgent need to devise a universal model of the process of shooting a mobile armored target (AFV) with fragmentation-beam shells of direct action. Such a model, in terms of its capabilities, would create preconditions for experimental studies into the effectiveness of various options for the implementation of components in the artillery system that fires FBS in the series of shots.…”

“…The resulting graph of states and transitions makes it possible to build a discrete-continuous stochastic model in the form of a system of Kolmogorov-Chapman differential equations ((1) to (9) ) ),…”