Weapons Effects in Urban Operations in Support of Combatant Commanders: Requirements for Testing, Analysis, Modeling and Simulation

摘要

Warfighters have studied how best to design and array their weapon systems in order to impose his will on his adversary and achieve his military goals to obtain a desired end state. The pursuit of the knowledge and the understanding of science required to achieve their objective continues today. In the past decade priorities have shifted from the open range to the confined spaces of the urban environment. The complexity of waging a war has increased exponentially among the three primary variables in understanding weapon effects, the weapons, the environment, and the combatant commander s objective. Historically we were concerned with the understanding of how to either defeat or protect assets contained in massive hardened structures that are subject to attack only by large air delivered munitions. Direct and indirect fire weapons in our arsenals were primarily developed for use against vehicles, equipment, supplies, and personnel.