Survivability Simulation of Airborne Platform With Expendable Active Decoy Countering RF Missile

• Published in: IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 196 - 207
• Main Authors: Rim, Jae-Won, Koh, Il-Suek
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.02.2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Aircraft survivability; Antennas; Atmospheric modeling; Computer simulation; Electronic countermeasure; Electronic countermeasures; expendable active decoy; Loads (forces); Missiles; modeling and simulation; Monte Carlo simulation; Radio frequency; survival probability
• ISSN: 0018-9251; 1557-9603
• DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2019.2913722

By employing an expendable repeater-type decoy that is known as efficient electronic countermeasure device, the survivability of an airborne platform can be improved. To optimize the survivability of the aircraft by managing the active decoy, analyzing which factors critically affect to the survivability is very important. For its dynamic situation, where the motions and interaction of the decoy, platform, and missile varied with respect to time, a modeling and simulation (M&S) approach is preferred, which can consider other factors: radio frequency specification of decoy, guidance model of the missile, and so on. Based on the proposed M&S approach, several crucial factors affecting to the survivability of the platform such as platform reaction range, platform maneuvering, decoy dynamics, missile's maximum load factor, etc., are addressed and numerically analyzed. Additionally, the survival probability of the platform is also simulated on several engagement scenarios through the Monte Carlo simulation.