The fundamentals of salvo warfare

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. === This thesis presents a detailed study of the fundamentals of modern naval surface missile combat and, though the vehicles of combat modeling, simulation, and quantitative analysis, describes a method of evaluating tactics. It establishes th...

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Main Author: Cares, Jeffrey R.
Other Authors: Hughes, Wayne P.
Published: Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/34844
http://hdl.handle.net/10945/34844
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Summary:Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. === This thesis presents a detailed study of the fundamentals of modern naval surface missile combat and, though the vehicles of combat modeling, simulation, and quantitative analysis, describes a method of evaluating tactics. It establishes three basic laws of naval combat, test the theory that undergirds the laws against a data set, and provides a thorough analysis of the results.