Securing passenger aircraft from the threat of man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS)

Risk Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1583-1599

  Okpara, Uche ^a,b   Bier, Vicki M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Attacker location strategy; Conditional hit probability; MANPADS; Onboard countermeasures; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AMMUNITION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS; ATTACKER LOCATION STRATEGY; COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; CONDITIONAL HIT PROBABILITY; COUNTER-MEASURES; HIT PROBABILITIES; MANPADS; ONBOARD COUNTERMEASURES; PASSENGER AIRCRAFT;

MISSILE LAUNCHING SYSTEMS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; AIRPORT; DEFENSE CRAFT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; SECURITY THREAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AIRCRAFT; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; WEAPON;

EID: 55349118824     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01133.x     Document Type: Article

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