Accession Number:

ADA008038

Title:

Detection, Suppression and Fractional Suppression. A Preliminary Examination

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

HORRIGAN ANALYTICS CHICAGO IL

Personal Author(s):

• Horrigan, Timothy J.

Report Date:

1973-08-31

Pagination or Media Count:

42.0

Abstract:

Suppression produced among combatants exposed to mixed, nonuniform fires is given an operational explication through a single-round period of suppressive effect which is permitted to have a random duration that may stochastically depend upon miss-distance. Explicit formulas are derived for the expected duration of periods of suppression and for expected detection times when the underlying search activity is suspended during periods of suppression. Suppression thus represented as a hiatus in combat activities, as is customary, is shown in the case of search activities to produce such extremely long expected detection times that even very small but nonzero detection rates during periods of suppression make major reductions in those expected detection times. Fractional suppression, a more satisfactory concept that permits nonzero activity rates during periods of suppression, is introduced and an explicit formula for expected detection times in the presence of fractional suppression is established.

Descriptors:

• *WARFARE
• *SUPPRESSION
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
• RANDOM VARIABLES
• BOMBARDMENT(ATTACK)
• THEOREMS

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE