RULE BASED TARGET EVALUATION AND FIRE DOCTRINE

Abstract

Threat evaluation is the process in which threat values of targets are calculated, based on the inferred capabilities and intents of the targets to give damage to defended assets. The capability and the intent are measured by its capacity of giving damage and by its actions, respectively. While having warhead and its estimated power show a damage capability measure, being aimed a defended unit is a measure of hostile action. Target evaluation is proceeded in real time in a wargame and the aim is to compare weapon target pairs according to a set of criteria. The target evaluation cycle is repeated anytime a new detection received and when any change is happened in the target currently detected. In this paper, an agent based command and control entity, which is in charge of target evaluation and giving engagement decision, is designed and it is situated in an air defense simulation environment.