October 2000 Newsletter - Naval Postgraduate School

RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
WEAPONEERING: FROM A JTCG/ME PERSPECTIVE, continued from page 12
from an analyst’s point of view how the basic Single Sortie Probability
of Damage (SSPD) is computed for various weapon/target
combinations. An example of one such scenario is shown in Figure
3, and is a screen from an unclassified version of a weaponeering
program similar to JAWS.
The course is classified as SECRET, not because of the classroom
material, but because it was expected that discussion of first hand
experiences by the students would quickly get to the classified level,
and this has proven to be the case.
In the first class there were 13 students representing a very broad
range of backgrounds for such a small group. There were 5 curricula
represented (Operations Analysis, Combat Systems Sciences and
Technology, Naval/Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering,
and the NPS/Test Pilot School Cooperative Program), representatives
from the Navy, Army and Marine Corps, USN surface and
submarine communities, and aviators from FA-18, FA-14, AV-8B,
A-6 aircraft and H60 helicopters, and a Marine M1A1 tanker.
There is no textbook available, but Professor Driels has prepared
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ME4300 WEAPONEERING – COURSE SYLLABUS, continued from page 12
4.13 Effectiveness assessment for a specific weapon
4.14 Calculation of lethal area
5. Vulnerability Assessment – Advanced Methods
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Computation of vulnerable area – COVART
5.1 COVART shotline analysis
5.2 COVART shotline P k/h
5.3 Output of COVART program
5.4 General full spray model – GFSM
5.5 Orientation of weapon in GFSM scenario
5.6 GFSM target description
5.7 GFSM weapon description
5.8 GFSM fragment drag data
5.9 Computational model
5.10 GFSM computation of P K/H
5.11 GFSM computation of P K/H (r,g)’s
5.12 Review of computational procedure
5.13 Computation of P K/H matrix
5.14 Simplification of lethal area for weaponeering
5.15 Damage function for targets sensitive to blast
6. Weapon Trajectory
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Weapon delivery tactics
6.3 Initial release velocities
6.4 Zero-drag point mass model
6.5 Linear drag model
Figure 3. Example of Weaponeering Program.
6.6 High fidelity models
6.7 Trajectory for LGB’s and missiles
7. Weapon selection
2.1 Aircraft weapons
2.2 Selecting the weapon for the target
PART 2 – THE WEAPONEERING PROCESS
8. Single weapons directed against point targets
8.1 Introduction to single sortie probability of damage
(SSPD)
8.2 SSPD’s using the Carlton damage function
8.3 SSPD’s for unitary blast damage function and point
target
8.4 Some computational considerations
8.5 Force estimation
8.6 Simple spreadsheet implementation to compute
SSPD’s
8.7 Spreadsheet template for implementing
weaponeering solutions
8.8 Calculating SSPD’s for guided weapons
9. Single weapons against area targets
9.1 Effect of area target on SSPD calculation
9.2 Target larger than the damage function
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NPS Research page 13
October 2000