Evaluating the Combat Effectiveness of Anti-ship Missile in Cooperative Operation

An analysis scheme and a physics-based mission system model are applied to evaluate the parameter influence on combat effectiveness of anti-ship missiles in cooperative operations. The cooperative operation is divided into 3 steps: cooperative penetration, cooperative detection and cooperative strike. The technical models which include radar detection model, hit probability model and vulnerability model are adapted to a suitable level of detail to combat effectiveness evaluation. The synthesis evaluation method of cooperative combat effectiveness is analyzed according to operation steps. The case studies are specifically applied to the problem of linking the design parameters to mission effectiveness. The simulation results indicate that increasing the number of anti-ship missiles is the major way of improving combat effectiveness especially in cooperative operations. Besides, increasing of speed, armor thickness and maneuver overload as well as decreasing the RCS of anti-ship missiles are also effective approaches to improve combat effectiveness. Although the models are at basic level, the complexity of the cooperative operation is demonstrated. The mission system model applied is feasible for assessing the combat effectiveness of cooperative operations.