Bradley Fighting Vehicle Gunnery: An Analysis of Engagement Strategies for theM242 25-mm Automatic Gun

摘要

This thesis studies various engagement strategies for the Bradley FightingVehicle's 25-mm automatic gun firing APDS-T ammunition against a BMP-type target. The Army currently provides only the broadest guidance for the structure of the 25-mm point target engagement which results in the employment of an assortment of strategies throughout the Bradley community. The goal of this research was to determine if a best method exists. Bradley gunnery is a complex set commander/gunner interactions which can be difficult to represent with the analytic models commonly found in the literature. A model, based on the simulation methods used by the US Army Material Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA), was developed to simulate the gunnery process in order to analyze the effects of firing a set pattern of single sensing rounds and multiple round bursts for the purpose of 'killing', the target. Analysis of variance techniques were used to characterize the effects of engagement strategies, precision and battlesight firing modes, and the burst on target (BOT) direct fire adjustment technique on the simulated Bradley gunnery process. Based on these results, conclusions and recommendations concerning the structure of the 25-mm point target engagement are discussed.... Bradley fighting vehicle, Gunnery, 25-mm APDS-T, Ballistics.