Study on Damage Assessment of Terminal-Sensitive Projectile Firing at Armored Targets

Terminal-sensitive projectile is one kind of sensing instrument initiation cluster ammunition. According to the performance characteristics of terminal-sensitive projectile, the target vulnerability of mechanized gun was analyzed in this paper. On that basis, the damage efficiency model of terminal-sensitive projectile in the incoming target area firing at the typical target was founded. Using the Monte-Carlo method, the hit probability and the damage probability under the condition of different operational distance were simulated and analyzed. The simulation results show that, with the increasing of the operational range, the damage efficiency of terminal-sensitive projectile was enhanced accordingly, but when the distance exceeds a certain range, it drops appreciably. The results can provide some helpful references for the overall design, and the system engineering method should be adapted to the index distribution, that will save the development period and budget.