Missile Cooperative Engagement Formation Configuration Control Method

In traditional engagement model, there is only one single weapon or platform which resists to another single one, and the connections between members are few, so the complete and global information in engagement space can’t be utilized sufficiently, which directly results in traditional model is confronting with more and more disadvantages especially as the high-tech and information-tech are developing faster and faster. In view of those issues, the concepts and technology of missile formation cooperative are presented, developed and expanded recently(Cui et al., 2009). Compared to traditional model, weapon or platform with cooperative manner manifests great advantages in aspects of ability of penetration, electronic countermeasures and ability of searching moving targets etc, furthermore the synthetical engagement efficacy is developed greatly. Many new cooperative weapon systems are established and developed fast recently, such as Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) system, Net Fire System and LOw Cost Autonomous Attack System (LOCAAS) etc, wherein the LOCAAS is most relevant to our topic, so we will introduce it more detailed. In order to meet the requirements of future aerial warfare, United States Force has developed a series of high technical and high accurate airborne guided weapon systems, such as Joint Common Missile (JCM), Joint Direct Attack Missile (JDAM), Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD) and LOw Cost Autonomous Attack System (LOCAAS). These weapons are paid much attention because their great capabilities of high-precision, all-weather engagement and attacking beyond defence area etc. Especially, LOCAAS also has other great advantages besides those aspects mentioned above, such as low cost, general utilization and attacking multi-targets simultaneously, so it is paid more attention than other weapons, and it becomes an outstanding representative of high-tech weapon and new engagement model. LOCAAS is developed from an previous weapon named as Low Cost Anti-Armor Submunitions (also called LOCAAS for short) which was a kind of short-range unpowered airborne and air-to-ground guided weapon developed in 1998. At a later time, researchers added thrust system to this old LOCAAS, so it had capability of launching beyond defence