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Generating Bomber Routes for the Delivery of Gravity Weapons



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Studio: Storming Media
Binding: Spiral-bound
Publication Date: September 07, 2008
Publisher: Storming Media


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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A661243. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) is updating the Arsenal Exchange Model (AEM) that it uses for allocating strategic weapons to targets. AEM does not model the range constraints on bomber routes. These routes are used to deliver gravity munitions. In order to include these constraints in the new method, the Weapons Allocation Model (WAM), a pool of routes that satisfy the range constraints needs to be created. The number of possible routes to consider is extremely large and it is not possible to enumerate them all. Therefore, the method to form the pool of routes needs to reduce the number of routes considered and selected to a manageable number. This research examines several methods for generating routes in an attempt to find the best method. All of these methods use implicit enumeration to create a pool of routes. The best method uses a combination of distance and flight direction to restrict the number of targets available to generate a route. However, the reduction provided by this method is not large enough and preprocessing the target database is also used. The method is tested against sample problems of several sizes to find the best way to use the method to generate routes in a problem of comparable size to the USSTRATCOM problem.
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