The memorandum describes a computer program designed to simulate the deployment of army units via transport aircraft from peacetime locations to an area of actual or potential combat. The program is written in the FORTRAN IV language. The program requires as inputs a description of the locations of bases (onload, enroute and offload), the locations and compositions of various army units and prepositioned sets of equipment, the characteristics of various transport aircraft, and a statement of the priorities to be assigned to the airlift of different army units. Given the basic input data, the program: (1) Selects efficient routes for the various aircraft types to and from each of the onload bases. (2) Performs a detailed loading of each aircraft. (3) Allocates aircraft to onload bases. (4) Prepares a graph of the cumulative deliveries of personnel and cargo at the offload area during the deployment. Operations of considerable complexity can be simulated with relatively little computer time (typical cases require less than 10 minutes on an IBM 7044). (Author)


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    Title :

    The Army Deployment Simulator


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    80 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English