Input data for lethality assessment of indirect fire

Authors:

  • Mats Hartmann
  • Pernilla Magnusson

Publish date: 2011-11-03

Report number: FOI-R--3277--SE

Pages: 34

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • lethality
  • assessment
  • shell
  • artillery
  • mortar
  • burst height

Abstract

Input data for the Artillery regiments efforts to create new procedural descriptions have been collected and documented. The data is supposed to facilitate studies of the influence of different heights of burst and impact angles on different types of shells' ability to defeat a group of ten soldiers in different types of terrain and on uneven ground. This requires that a reasonably tactical correct firing scenario is used; contrary to study the effects of a single shell which can not give the wanted type of results. The Artillery regiment has specified a number of variations in type of weapon, number of weapons, number of shells per weapon and a fix hit point distribution. In addition to these variations there are also variations in type of terrain, ground surface smoothness, angle of impact and burst height. This report describes the gathered data and is also supposed to act as a guide at the Artillery regiment when they start the simulation work with AVAL.