The Sustained Operations Model (SOM) is an event sequenced Monte Carlo simulation computer program that utilizes externally generated cost and single mission effectiveness results to examine the effectiveness of a group of attack helicopter (AH) aircraft operating in a combat environment over a sustained period of operations. The single mission effectiveness inputs used by SOM are generated by an external program such as GLOBAL or EVADE, complex combat simulation programs that evaluate the outcome of an attack by an AH fire team against enemy ground units that include an air defense capability. The cost factor is represented in the actual use of SOM, where comparisons of alternative AH systems are based on using equal cost force sizes. Additional cost factors can also be applied to end game results such as aircraft losses, ordnance and fuel expenditures, and maintenance demands, to derive comparative operational costs during the period of operations.
Technical Report Sustained Operations Model. Helicopter War Game Simulator
1974
168 pages
Report
No indication
English
Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Attack helicopters , Computerized simulation , Combat effectiveness , Computer programs , War games , Mathematical models , Mission profiles , Costs , Combat support , Ordnance , Fuel consumption , Maintenance , Monte Carlo method , Forward area defense systems , FORTRAN , SOM computer program , Global computer program , Evade computer program , FORTRAN 4 programming language
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