Bradley lethality study

Abstract

The Bradley Fighting Vehicle System entered into army-service in 1981 and will be used in the Army inventory until at least the year 2032. In order to maintain lethal dominance, the Bradley will require a new direct fire systems. Larger caliber systems provide increased lethality, but reduce die amount of ammunition available and have increased cost. This project investigated which alternative provides the optimum Bradley weapons system. The client was interested in the weapon performance over a variety of terrains and mission profiles. In order to reduce the number of combinations of design variables, Pythagoras, an agent-based model was employed to investigate the optimum burst size for each weapon. Then a high resolution combat model, JCATS, will be employed to examine the performance of the candidate systems as compared to the current system. A value model was developed to compare the evaluation measures.