Allocating missiles to targets protected by an area defense.

摘要

This study is concerned with allocating offensive weapons to targets which are protected by an area defense. The performance metric for the damage of the targets is a concave function related to the number of weapons that actually reach a target. The process is modeled from a group of undefended targets to a group of defended targets and is extended to several groups of defended targets. The optimal allocation for each group of targets is computed for varying numbers of weapons. These allocations are used to compute payoff functions for each defended group. The payoff functions for each group are used to solve the allocation problem globally. The techniques presented are neither complex nor sophisticated, but exemplify an underlying principle of operations research: the solution of real world problems using existing methods in combination with the partitionment of the problem into manageable dimensions.