A Bomber-Fighter Duel (II)

David Blackwell, Max Shiffman

ResearchPublished 1949

This memorandum completes a study of a fighter-bomber duel. The duel is one in which a fighter fires a single rocket burst at a bomber, which has limited ammunition and defends itself by intermittent firing. It turns out that, for fixed accuracy and values of the bomber and fighter, the nature of the strategies depends on the amount of ammunition at the disposal of the bomber.

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  • Year: 1949
  • Pages: 10
  • Document Number: RM-193-PR

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Blackwell, David and Max Shiffman, A Bomber-Fighter Duel (II). Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1949. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM193.html.
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