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Course Name Warfare Simulations & Strategies
Course Code 25DT602
Program M.Tech. in Defence Technology
Semester 1
Credits 3
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Course Content
Unit Contents Contact Hrs.
1. Introduction to Warfare systems: air, surface, subsurface, littoral, electronic 7
2. Military capabilities: air warfare, surface warfare, sub surface warfare, littoral warfare 7
3. Introduction to the methods used in modeling combat and their application in support of defence decision making and training, Combat simulation. 7
4. War gaming/interactive simulation, Lanchester’s equations, Mathematical models of combat. 7
5. War gaming and combat modeling in practice, manual war gaming. 6
6. Human factors representation in war gaming and combat modeling. 6
Total 40

Objectives and Outcomes

Course Objectives:

The main objective of the course is to provide knowledge to the students about warfare system and affluent them with combat modeling using mathematical modeling.

Course Outcomes: At the end of the course the student should be able to:

  • Understand the systems used in warfare scenario.
  • Understand combat simulation & modelling
  • Understand the war gaming simulation & modelling and human factor representation.

Text Books / References

References / Suggested Books:

  1. “Defense Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis: Meeting the Challenge”. Publisher: National Academies Press (October 22, 2006).
  2. “Introduction to Electronic Warfare Modeling and Simulation “by David L.Adamy”. Publisher: Artech Print on Demand (October 31, 2002).
  3. “Engineering Principles of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation”, by Andreas Tolk (Editor), Old Dominion University. Publisher : John Wiley & Sons.
  4. Literature / books suggested by respective course Lecturers.

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