Aircraft Sortie Model Involving a Single Active Target

An economic sortie model involving N identical aircrafts attacking a single active target is developed. Using the concepts of Markovian properties, mathematical expressions for the probability of the various events associated with the sortie are obtained. The obtained results are used to derive cost related measures of effectiveness. Then, the most economic sortie time attacking the given target is computed based on maximization of the expected gain of the sortie. A numerical example is provided.