• Title/Summary/Keyword: Air-to-air Combat Tactic

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Manned-Unmanned Teaming Air-to-Air Combat Tactic Development Using Longshot Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (롱샷 무인기를 활용한 유무인 협업 공대공 전술 개발)

  • Yoo, Seunghoon;Park, Myunghwan;Hwang, Seongin;Seol, Hyeonju
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.64-72
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    • 2021
  • Manned-unmanned teaming can be a very promising air-to-air combat tactic since it can maximize the advantage of combining human insight with the robustness of the machine. The rapid advances in artificial intelligence and autonomous control technology will speed up the development of manned-unmanned teaming air-to-air combat system. In this paper, we introduce a manned-unmanned teaming air-to-air combat tactic which is composed of a manned aircraft and an UAV. In this tactic, a manned aircraft equipped with radar is functioning both as a sensor to detect the hostile aircraft and as a controller to direct the UAV to engage the hostile aircraft. The UAV equipped with missiles is functioning as an actor to engage the hostile aircraft. We also developed a combat scenario of executing this tactic where the manned-unmanned teaming is engaging a hostile aircraft. The hostile aircraft is equipped with both missiles and radar. To demonstrate the efficiency of the tactic, we run the simulation of the scenario of the tactic. Using the simulation, we found the optimal formation and maneuver for the manned-unmanned teaming where the manned-unmanned teaming can survive while the hostile aircraft is shot-downed. The result of this study can provide an insight to how manned aircraft can collaborate with UAV to carry out air-to-air combat missions.

The Specification of Air-to-Air Combat Tactics Using UML Sequence Diagram (UML Sequence Diagram을 활용한 공대공 교전 전술 명세)

  • Park, Myunghwan;Oh, Jihyun;Kim, Cheonyoung;Seol, Hyeonju
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.664-675
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    • 2021
  • Air force air-to-air combat tactics are occurring at a high speed in three-dimensional space. The specification of the tactics requires dealing with a quite amount of information, which makes it a challenge to accurately describe the maneuvering procedure of the tactics. The specification of air-to-air tactics using natural languages is not suitable because of the intrinsic ambiguity of natural languages. Therefore, this paper proposes an approach of using UML Sequence Diagram to describe air-to-air combat tactics. Since the current Sequence Diagram notation is not sufficient to express all aspects of the tactics, we extend the syntax of the Sequence Diagram to accommodate the required features of air-to-air combat tactics. We evaluate the applicability of the extended Sequence Diagram to air-to-air combat tactics using a case example, that is the manned-unmanned teaming combat tactic. The result shows that Sequence Diagram specification is more advantageous than natural language specification in terms of readability, conciseness, and accuracy. However, the expressiveness of the Sequence Diagram is evaluated to be less powerful than natural language, requiring further study to address this issue.