Directed energy weapon deployment simulation

A computer implemented method for designing a directed energy weapon system, comprising:

• modeling an environment including possible locations of target aircraft and missile threats;
• postulating a directed energy weapons system deployment to defend the target aircraft against the missile threats;
• defining a plurality of engagement scenarios in which one or more missile threats are launched to attack one or more target aircraft, each engagement scenario including estimating a threat vulnerability threshold function for each missile threat;
• and
• simulating the plurality of engagement scenarios, including calculating the effect of the directed energy weapon on at least one party other than the threat, and wherein a safety mitigation is simulated if the effect of the directed energy weapon places a party of the at least one party at risk.

A computing device to simulate a directed energy weapon deployed to defend a target aircraft against a missile threat, the computing device comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory coupled with the processor;
• and
• a storage medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the computing device to perform actions comprising:
• modeling an environment including possible locations of target aircraft and missile threats,
• postulating a directed energy weapons system deployment to defend the target aircraft against the missile threats,
• defining a plurality of engagement scenarios in which one or more missile threats are launched to attack one or more target aircraft, each engagement scenario including estimating a threat vulnerability threshold function for each missile threat, and
• simulating the plurality of engagement scenarios including calculating the effect of the directed energy weapon on at least one party other than the threat, and wherein a safety mitigation is simulated if the effect of the directed energy weapon places a party of the at least one party at risk.

A non-transitory storage medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed by a processor will cause the processor to perform actions comprising:

• modeling an environment including possible locations of target aircraft and missile threats;
• postulating a directed energy weapons system deployment to defend the target aircraft against the missile threats;
• defining a plurality of engagement scenarios in which one or more missile threats are launched to attack one or more target aircraft, each engagement scenario including estimating a threat vulnerability threshold function for each missile threat;
• and
• simulating the plurality of engagement scenarios including calculating the effect of the directed energy weapon on at least one party other than the threat, and wherein a safety mitigation is simulated if the effect of the directed energy weapon places a party of the at least one party at risk.

A computer implemented method for simulating a directed energy weapon deployed to defend a target aircraft against a missile threat, comprising:

• developing an environment defining possible locations of target aircraft and missile threats;
• postulating a directed energy weapons system deployment to defend the target aircraft against the missile threats;
• defining a plurality of engagement scenarios in which one or more missile threats are launched to attack one or more target aircraft;
• and
• simulating the plurality of engagement scenarios including calculating an effect of the directed energy weapon on a party other than the one or more missile threats, wherein a safety mitigation is simulated if the effect of the directed energy weapon places a party of the at least one party at risk.