A Study on the Criteria to Decide the Number of Aircrafts Considering Operational Characteristics

Son, Young-Su; Kim, Seong-Woo; Yoon, Bong-Kyoo

doi:2014.17.1.41

J. KIMS Technol > Volume 17(1); 2014 > Article

Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology 2014;17(1):41-49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.9766/KIMST.2014.17.1.041

A Study on the Criteria to Decide the Number of Aircrafts Considering Operational Characteristics

Young-Su Son, Seong-Woo Kim, Bong-Kyoo Yoon

¹ROK-US Combined Forces Command
²Korea National Defense University

항공기 운용 특성을 고려한 적정 운용 대수 산정 기준 연구

손영수, 김성우, 윤봉규

¹한.미연합사령부
²국방대학교 운영분석학과

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a method to access the number of aircraft requirement which is a strategic variable in national security. This problem becomes more important considering the F-X and KF-X project in ROKAF. Traditionally, ATO(Air Tasking Order) and fighting power index have been used to evaluate the number of aircrafts required in ROKAF. However, those methods considers static aspect of aircraft requirement. This paper deals with a model to accommodate dynamic feature of aircraft requirement using absorbing Markov chain. In conclusion, we suggest a dynamic model to evaluate the number of aircrafts required with key decision variables such as destroying rate, failure rate and repair rate.

Key Words: Discrete-time Markov Chain, Aircraft Assessment, Dynamic Feature