Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / In this thesis, we compare weapon effectiveness methods to determine if current effectiveness models provide accurate results. The United States Military currently adheres to a compilation of data and methodologies named the Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals (JMEM) to determine the effectiveness of air delivered weapons against a variety of ground targets. Since the time these manuals were implemented in the 1960s, progress in technology has allowed the weapon/target interaction to be more accurately modeled. This thesis investigates the differences of these high fidelity models for unguided weapons and the JMEM computations in order to determine whether the older, more simplistic, models need to be upgraded. / Ensign, United States Navy
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nps.edu/oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/1614 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | Anderson, Colin M. |
| Contributors | Driels, Morris R., Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)., Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering |
| Publisher | Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School |
| Source Sets | Naval Postgraduate School |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | xiv, 113 p. : ill. (some col.) ;, application/pdf |
| Rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. |
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