Modeling & Simulation of Directed Energy Weapon Systems for Combined Target Effects

The modern battlefield will increasingly make use of directed energy weapons, and asimulation of their effectiveness and utility on the battlefield will be needed to guide their development and operational implementation. We propose the first completevalidated source-to-target energy transfer computer simulation of the deployment of millimeter/microwave, acoustic, and laser weapons against personneland materiel targets, including both theoretical models and experimental data. Wealso consider energypropagation under weather and other environmental effects, with the eventual incorporation of conventional weapons and a simplified two-party war game in Phase II. The combined effects of these weapons interacting at the singletarget level will be treatedwith original theories which will demonstrate theresultant nonlinearly enhanced coupling to the target. Our software approach is graphical user interface (GUI)-based and object-oriented, with modular calculation functions and operated standalone on apersonal computer. A relational database ofkill and incapacitation probabilities and percent degradations will be generated at the completion of Phase II for use in separate force-on-force codes for further weapons system evaluation.Potential commercialapplications of this type of directed energy weapons simulation(with appropriate customization to the relevant markets) include PC-based trainingsimulations for prisons and incorporation into more visually sophisticated law enforcement trainingsimulations, both domestically and internationally, and inaiding the development of directed energy weapon technologies in the largercommercial aerospace companies and other military government customers.