kill probability


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kill probability

A measure of the probability of destroying a target.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Suppose further that each attacking re-entry vehicle has a 70 percent single-shot kill probability. (The figure of 70 percent is notional but subjectively reasonable.) The figure shows the price to attack, as a function of the size of the ICBM force, for destroying all but 20 of the ICBM silos.
The weapon system has excellent electronic counter measures and high kill probability. The system is fully capable of providing low to medium altitude area air defence to national and strategic assets, field formations and maneuvering forces.
The new missile has high single shot kill probability, which enhances its accuracy.
ASTRA is India's first BVR Air-to-Air Missile indigenously designed and developed by DRDO, possessing high Single Shot Kill Probability (SSKP) making it highly reliable.
Air and missile defence is often a matter that involves more than one system, a layered defence being definitely the best way to increase the kill probability against an incoming threat.
The three independent darts increase the kill probability. The minimum system range is 300 m, at which point the darts separate.
Today the single shot kill probability is about 90 percent.
Each firing has an estimated single-shot kill probability in excess of 75%.
The kill probability increased from 0.25 (for the Strela-2M) to 0.32, featured better resistance to countermeasures haze, snow, and rain--all the while being simpler to use.