Broadening the Trade Space in Designing for Warship Survivability
Abstract
In littoral warfare against a competent adversary, affordable levels of stealth and defensive weapons
will not prevent our warships from being hit by antiship weapons. As our ships will be hit, we must
design them to absorb these hits and continue to fight. In this paper, we consider the future threat and
four approaches to design for survivability: stealth, defensive weapons, passive defensive design, and
increased numbers. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach are discussed. Only a balanced
strategy that incorporates the elements of all four approaches is likely to be both survivable
and affordable.
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The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2010.00248.x
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