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<p>The Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD) Defense Planner, or SDP, is a prototype defense planning and simulation tool. It is designed to aid and train Army Air Defense Officers in the tasks of: (1) planning the air defense for a given static asset; and (2) positioning short range air defense weapon systems in the best possible way. A prototype system has been constructed which allows the Air Defender to position his asset to defend, with the system then performing a heuristic search, and displaying four possible attack routes that could be used by attacking aircraft to reach the map region containing the asset. The user may then position Towed-Vulcan, Stinger, and Chaparral weapon systems where he feels they will provide the best defense of the asset, or request the system to position four Vulcans, four Stinger, or four of each Vulcan and Stinger in defense of the asset. The user can then choose any vehicle that he, or the system, positioned and be able to see a 3D representation of what the gunner in that vehicle would see. He is also able to maneuver that vehicle over the 3D terrain to select the best possible defensive position from the gunner's point of view. Both the Towed-Vulcan, and the Chaparral weapon systems, have bee modeled in 3D for use in the SDP prototype system.
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<br>Subjects: Antiaircraft guns; Antiaircraft missiles.; Graphics workstation; air defense artillery; simulation; defense planning; A* search; SB-Prolog; low-altitude avenues of approach</div>
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Dixon, Roger Steven</div>
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