Aircraft positioned at specified locations are subject to an attack from sealaunched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). This report presents a technique for the determination of the number of alert aircraft that can be destroyed by the first missile arriving on each base. The assignment problem, a special case of the linear programming transportation problem, is applied to arrive at the optimal allocation of missiles to targets. Aircraft losses are determined using a step distribution function for overpressure and thermal nuclear hardness levels which are input for each aircraft type being considered. A FORTRAN computer program which performs the calculations is presented.


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    Title :

    Determination of Aircraft Survival from a Surprise Nuclear Attack


    Contributors:
    A. R. Geldback (author) / H. F. Doyle (author) / W. F. Peay (author)

    Publication date :

    1975


    Size :

    83 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English