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DTIC ADA019744: Urban Warfare: A First Report

The report documents a two man-year laboratory effort - January 1974 - June 1975 - in the field of urban warfare. The report consists of ideas, thoughts, mathematical modeling, weapon analysis, and weapon concepts. The modeling effort has produced an urban warfare combat simulation (URBWAR). URBWAR is a stochastic, event-sequenced, small unit (platoon and smaller) simulation, and (in its present form the model) can be and has been used to analyze small arms weaponry. The program has resulted two weapon ideas that appear to have promise: (1) A wall breaching/anti-armor infantry weapon; (2) a volume source concussion grenade. The concussion grenade, based on fuel air explosive technology, would generate a volume concussion source that might solve the problems associated with intervening furniture and degradation of concussion effects with range. In addition a testing program was also identified as being required to generate data to aid designers, analysts, and decision makers in developing effective weapons. Some of the tests are: (1) Material penetration; (2) Ricochet phenomena; (3) Visual detection; (4) Fragmenting grenade lethality in a confined area; (5) Aiming accuracy against f

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