An effectiveness evaluation method for airburst projectiles

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Saygın, Oktay

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Airburst projectiles increase the effectiveness of air defense, by forming clouds of small pellets. In this work, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of airburst projectiles, Single Shot Kill Probability (SSKP) is computed at different burst distances by using three lethality functions defined from different measures of effectiveness. These different measures are target coverage, number of sub-projectile hits on the target and kinetic energy of sub-projectiles after burst. Computations are carried out for two different sub-projectile distribution patterns, namely circular and ring patterns. In this work, for the determination of miss distance, a Monte Carlo simulation is implemented, which uses Modified Point Mass Model (MPMM) trajectory equations. According to the results obtained two different distribution patterns are compared in terms of effectiveness and optimum burst distance of each distribution pattern is determined at different ranges.

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Projectiles, Aerial.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613202/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20554

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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O. Saygın, “An effectiveness evaluation method for airburst projectiles,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2011.