Tactics Support Apparatus for Automated Weapon Deployment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for deploying friendly military weapons to intercept enemy threats require extensive manual operation and take too long, especially with the advent of high-speed ships and advanced guided weapons, necessitating a faster and more efficient method to determine and deploy defensive positions.

Innovation Solution

A tactics support apparatus and method that calculates the necessary friendly military power for each defense area based on quantified enemy and friendly military powers, determining the deployment of friendly movable weapons and visibly outputting their positions, utilizing a CPU-driven system with input and output units, policy data, military power data, and geographical data to automate the deployment process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual operation is used to determine deployment positions of friendly movable weapons, then the deployment can be made in consideration of various factors (enemy routes, friendly positions, weapon abilities), but it takes much time and requires high-level performance personnel

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedeployment accuracyVSAvoiddeployment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the manual mechanical decision-making process with an automated computer-based system. The tactics support apparatus automatically calculates optimal deployment positions by processing enemy predicted routes, friendly positions, and weapon capabilities through computational algorithms, eliminating the need for manual high-level performance personnel while maintaining deployment accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary calculation and determination of deployment positions before actual deployment is needed. By pre-processing enemy route predictions and friendly weapon capabilities, the system prepares optimal deployment solutions in advance, enabling rapid response when deployment is actually required

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If manual operation procedures are used for troop deployment, then comprehensive consideration of enemy and friendly positions can be made, but the process requires high-level performance personnel and much time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation simplicityVSAvoidprocedure time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces complex manual operation procedures with an automated computational system that processes deployment calculations. The tactics support apparatus handles all complex considerations of enemy routes, friendly positions, and weapon abilities through automated algorithms, making the operation simple for users while dramatically reducing procedure time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically calculating and determining optimal deployment positions without requiring manual intervention for complex calculations. The apparatus independently processes all necessary factors and generates deployment solutions, freeing operators from time-consuming manual analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS9400158B2Tactics support apparatus and tactics support method
Publication Date: 2016.07.26 MITSUBISHI HEAVY IND LTD
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AI summary

A tactics support apparatus includes an operation unit configured to calculate a friendly military power necessary for each of defense areas which are set between an enemy and a target of the enemy based on a total quantified military power of deployed movable weapons of the enemy and a friend, and determine friendly movable weapons to be deployed in each of the defense areas. An output unit is configured to visibly output deployment positions of the friendly movable weapons.