Hard and Soft Defense Against a Sequence of Aerial Threats

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Atkinson, Michael; Kress, Moshe
• 署名单位: United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School
• 刊物名称: OPERATIONS RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0030-364X
• DOI: 10.1287/opre.2024.1025
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 1767-1784
• 关键词: missile defense; optimization; MODEL

摘要

The increasing prevalence of missiles and drones (hereafter referred to as threats) in attacks by both state and nonstate actors highlights the critical need for a robust defense system to counter these threats. We develop a combat model for the engagement between a Blue defender who is subject to repeated attacks by Red threats. The defender employs two types of defenses: hard interceptors, such as antiballistic missiles, and soft measures, such as directedenergy weapons and jamming. Employing strategies for these two types of defensive options are evaluated by a two-dimensional measure of effectiveness: expected number of leaking Red threats and the expected expenditure of hard interceptors. We define efficient frontiers on this two-dimensional space and identify defense strategies that compose these frontiers.