Accession Number:

AD0753590

Title:

Mathematical Model of Armed Helicopter vs Tank Duel

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Smart, Donald L.

Report Date:

1972-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

56.0

Abstract:

The purpose of this thesis is to mathematically model a duel between the armed helicopter and the tank. In addition to providing a parametric analysis of B. O. Koopmans classical Detection-Destruction Duel, two additional models were constructed and analyzed. All three models stem from stochastic versions of Lanchesters Equations but require that a unit first be detected before it is destroyed. The later two models are extensions of Koopmans model but provide for the unique capability of the helicopter to rapidly maneuver behind masking terrain, thus transitioning from the detected state back to the undetected state.

Descriptors:

• *HELICOPTERS
• *TACTICAL WARFARE
• *TANKS(COMBAT VEHICLES)
• *AERIAL GUNNERY
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• DETECTION
• EVASION
• KILL PROBABILITIES
• VULNERABILITY
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Unconventional Warfare

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE