Agent-based effectiveness evaluation method and impact analysis of airborne laser weapon system in cooperation combat

The laser weapons will play a special role in the future high-tech war. To study the impact of airborne laser weapon on the System-of-System (SoS) effectiveness in cooperative combat, this paper proposes an indicator construction method based on the combination of the weapon capability indicator system and the combat simulation. The indicator system of capability is divided into 4 layers by the bottom-to-up generation mechanism of indicators. It can describe the logical relationship between the indicator layers from a qualitative perspective. Together with the 4 layers capability indicator system, a hierarchical framework of airborne laser weapon is established by the agent-based modeling and simulation. Impact analyses show that the SoS effectiveness improves with the increase of the laser weapon output power, the laser launcher diameter, and the photoelectric sensor pixel. But the SoS effectiveness promotion brought by the photoelectric sensor pixel is limited. The results can be used for the development of tactical airborne laser weapon.(c) 2022 Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Production and hosting by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).