Comparison of Bradley M2A2 and M2A3 using Janus
By: Steven A. Lovaszy
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Description: The US Army is currently developing a new variant of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle the M2A3      also known as the BFVS-A3. The new vehicle will include a number of modifications to the current M2A2 vehicle as a result of combat experience during Operation Desert Storm. The modifications have resulted from a need to upgrade the Bradley Fighting Vehicle System (BFVS) to facilitate enhanced command and control lethality,, survivability, mobility, and      sustainability, to defeat current and future threat forces. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the two variants of vehicle in the Pre-test Modeling phase of the      Model-Test--Model concept. This thesis used the Janus high resolution combat model, to      simulate the vehicles and weapon systems under two scenarios, a Head-to-Head scenario, and a Force-on-Force scenario. The Head-to-Head scenario is a simulation of the future      Limited User Test 2 to be conducted by TEXCOM. The Force-on-Force scenario is a simulated battle between a Bradley platoon and a Soviet style tank heavy company. Data was gathered from the Janus created postprocessor files of the two scenarios. The analysis      compared four measures of effectiveness (MOEs), in the areas of detection, engagement,      lethality, and survivability. The aim of the analysis was to detect differences between the vehicle variants using the two sample T-test and the Mann-Whitney- Wilcoxen test.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): Bard K. Mansager, R.R. Read.

"September 1996."

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research and M.S. in Applied Mathematics) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1996.

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