Probability distributions for weapon system effectiveness

Technical Report · Tue Mar 21 23:00:00 EST 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6041629· OSTI ID:6041629

Handler, F.

The author derives the probability density functions and cumulative distribution functions describing the single shot probability of survival, SSPS, for a given weapon system and target, as a function of the underlying random variables weapon radius, WR, and circular error probable, CEP. The author derives explicit analytical formulas when WR and CEP are uniformly distributed and numerically compute results when WR is uniform and CEP is distributed as xi/sup 2/. The author illustrates some properties of the SSPS distributions and how these results can apply to weapon effectiveness studies. 8 refs., 10 figs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6041629
• Report Number(s): UCID-21698; ON: DE89011339
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DEATH
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
EFFICIENCY
EQUATIONS
FUNCTIONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATHEMATICS
NUMERICAL SOLUTION
PERFORMANCE
PROBABILITY
STATISTICAL MODELS
WARFARE
WEAPONS