Evaluating the effectiveness of shoot–look–shoot tactics in the presence of incomplete damage information

The advent of new technologies, and in particular the development of efficient detection sensors, has produced advanced long-range and accurate weapon systems such as HELLFIRE, SLAM, GBU-15 and FOG-M. A common problem that is associated with the operation of these weapons systems is that of Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA). Stating it simply, the question is: how to utilize these weapon systems in the most efficient way when damage information is not complete? In this paper, Yossi Aviv and Moshe Kress analyze several shooting tactics and show that a certain simple tactic may be best in terms of fire efficiency and operational convenience. This result sheds some light on doctrinal issues that may be related to the operation of these weapon systems.