A Heterogeneous Shoot-Look-Shoot Attrition Process

Abstract

Shoot-look-shoot attrition generally refers to cases in which the shooting side has (or can be adequately modeled as having) sufficient coordination among its shooters that it can assign any particular shooter to engage any particular target, engagements occur in succession, the shooting side can assess the results of each engagement before being required to fulfill succeeding assignments, and the shooting side can assign shooters who have not yet made an attack (or who are capable of making another attack) to engage only those targets that either have not yet been engaged or have survived all prior engagements against them. This article describes formulas used to simulate such shoot-look-shoot attrition processes in deterministic combat models.

Keywords

aggregated combat model coordination of fire deterministic attrition equations dynamic simulation of warfare Lanchester equations munitions

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References

Anderson, L. B. (1989). Heterogeneous point fire and area fire attrition processes that explicitly consider various types of munitions and levels of coordination, IDA Paper P-2249. Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA.

Anderson, L. B. , & Miercort, F. A. (1989). COMBAT: A computer program to investigate aimed fire attrition equations, allocations of fire, and the calculation of weapons scores, IDA paper P-2248. Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA.

This paper also appears as a chapter of: Shubik, M. , et al. (1983), Mathematics of Conflict, North Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.