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Aircraft weapon budgeting

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This article considers the problem of allocating a fixed budget among alternative air‐to‐ground weapons. The weapon‐budgeting problem is high‐dimensional, involving all feasible combinations of aircraft, weapons, and targets. The decision maker's utility function is defined over kills of the various target types, but it is unrealistic to expect him to write down the mathematical formula for this function. The article suggests two procedures for reducing the dimension of the maximization problem and operating without exact knowledge of the utility function. The first procedure uses successive linear approximations to generate the set of “efficient” or undominated weapon allocations. The second procedure applies separability restrictions to the utility function, thereby reducing the overall maximization problem to a sequence of low‐dimensional subproblems.

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  • Matthew S. Goldberg, 1991. "Aircraft weapon budgeting," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 38(6), pages 799-816, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:38:y:1991:i:6:p:799-816
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.3800380602
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    1. Ronald H. Nickel & Marc Mangel, 1985. "Weapon acquisition with target uncertainty," Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 32(4), pages 567-588, November.
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