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Overview of weaponeering and weapon effectiveness -- Introduction to statistical methods -- Weapon trajectory -- Delivery accuracy -- Accuracy of GPS/INS guided munitions -- Introduction to vulnerability and effectiveness -- Vulnerability implementation -- Effectiveness assessment : implementation -- Calculating damage probablilities -- Single weapons directed against an area of targets -- Sticks, volleys, and cluster munitions -- Bridges, linear targets, effective miss distance, and tunnels -- Ground penetration and cratering -- Air blast -- Above-ground buildings and bunkers -- Collateral damage estimation -- Computer implementation of weaponeering methods -- Applications and case studies -- Appendix: Weapon selection based on target and damage criteria.

Many weapon effectiveness tools are implemented using a Monte Carlo simulation approach since closed form solutions are too mathematically intractable to compute. A question that usually arises in connection with such simulations is to ask how many iterations of a particular Monte Carlo simulation are needed. This report proposed the probability-based approach to computing effectiveness measures for better feedback to the user regarding the relationship between the number of iterations executed and confidence measures associated with the result. ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.