Availability of Weapon Systems with Air-attack Missions

The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-121

  Upadhya, K Sadananda ^a   Srinivasan, N K ^b  

^a DRDO   (India)

^b Software Testing and Quality Services   (India)

Author keywords

availability; Discrete event simulation; military simulation; Monte Carlo technique; weapon systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993791831     PISSN: 15485129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/875647930400100205     Document Type: Article

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