An Investigation of Aiming Point Strategies for Field Artillery Against Area Targets.

摘要

In this study an optimal aiming point strategy is sought for the attack of rectangular area targets with field artillery weapons firing conventional high explosive projectiles, assuming the capability of applying to individual firing data to each weapon. A deterministic computer simulation model is used to test a number of aiming point patterns for two, four and six gun batteries, firing single volleys at each of ninety targets defined over a range of target conditions. The results for each pattern are compared in terms of expected fractional damage to the target. Included in the tested patterns are the standard Lazy W Aiming Point Pattern and a rectangular pattern which has been proposed for the Battery Computer System (BCS).