HYPERVELOCITY PROJECTILE
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Authors
Means, John B.
Quarles, Christopher M.
Sanchez, Miguel E., Jr.
Wu, Matthew X.
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hypervelocity projectile
Distributed Maritime Operations
mission
engineering
and modeling and simulation
Distributed Maritime Operations
mission
engineering
and modeling and simulation
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Paulo, Eugene P.
Beery, Paul T.
Date of Issue
2020-09
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Sep-20
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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This project focuses on the definition and analysis of a concept of operations for hypervelocity projectile (HVP) employment in support of layered defense within an adaptive force package (AFP). The project defines, via development of a systems architecture and mission engineering, the weapon characteristics relevant to HVP utilization. The project presents an initial set of system requirements as well as a definition of the system functionality and potential physical configurations. The project develops a detailed analysis model that analyzes the performance parameters that have the largest impact on the overall effectiveness of the proposed HVP systems. In particular, the project examines the impact of alterations to range-dependent kill criteria and engagement envelopes on the effectiveness of the overall system in complex threat scenarios. That analysis is then fed back into the system architecture to develop recommended system configurations and inform system requirements.
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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