Evaluation of intelligent minefields

A Wide Area Munition employs acoustic and seismic sensors to detect, classify, track, and engage potential targets. An Intelligent Wide Area Munition exhibits the added capability to communicate with other IWAMs which results in an increased probability of hit in the intersection of the lethal areas. To assess a range of intelligent minefield deployments, to include mine spacing, numbers of mines, mixes of mine types and the lay-down pattern of the mines, we constructed a high resolution, interactive, stochastically based simulation written in Visual Basic. Results from the simulation and mathematical details supporting our conclusions are discussed.