Modeling of Attrition in a Barrier Penetration Process with Evenly Spaced Barrier Elements

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Combat: A Computer Program to Investigate Aimed Fire Attrition Equations, Allocations of Fire, and the Calculation of Weapons Scores

“…other than the examples given here (see, for example, [21), and measures based on these other means may or may not have one or both of these properties. However, for the time being, COMBAT considers only the latter fcur measures listed above.…”

“…Second, these scores, once computed, remain fixed both over all time periods in any one run of the model and (except for explicitly constructed sensitivity analyses) over all runs of the model made in the analysis, In a sense, this approach uses weapons scores in a static manner (in that they remain fixed throughout) to do what static scores are reasonably good at doing--helping to summarize the relative effectiveness of two opposing forces at a particular point in time (i.e., either initially or, when running a dynamic combat model, after any given time period). Moreover, this approach uses the dynamic portion of the combat model (not [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] S!I by that type of weapon), whereiall of this notation is as defined in Section B of Chapter IL above.…”

“…However, since the reason for considering rescaling described in Section C.6 cannot occur here, this structure is completely consistent with the rationale underlying that section. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] E. ALTERNATIVE MEASURES FOR COMPARING FORCES…”

“…Alternatively, sets of assumptions to explicitly model barrier penetration processes could be postulated, and attrition equations based on these barrierpenetration assumptions could be used in models less aggregated than COMBAT. (See, for example, References [14], [21], and [22]. )…”