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DTIC ADA483646: Optimal Employment of Port Radar and Picket Ships t... |
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The U.S. Coast Guard has deployed several hundred port |
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patrol vessels to protect U.S. Navy ships and other high- |
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value assets in ports world-wide. Each vessel has an |
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armed crew of four, is relatively fast, and features a |
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simple surface search radar, radios, and a machine gun. |
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These vessels coordinate surveillance patrols in groups |
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of two or four, perhaps working with shorebased radar. We |
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seek to advantageously position these vessels, and |
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perhaps shore-based radar too, to minimize the |
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probability that an intelligent adversary in one or more |
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speed-boats will evade detection while mounting an |
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attack. Attackers can use elevated obstructions to our |
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radar detection in their attack paths, and ports feature |
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many such restrictions to navigation and observation. We |
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make a key, but realistic assumption that complicates |
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planning: we assume the attackers will see or be told of |
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our defensive positions and capabilities in advance of |
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mounting their attack. We demonstrate our defender- |
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attacker optimization with a fictitious port, and with |
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Los Angeles-Long Beach, Hong Kong, U.S. Navy 5-th Fleet |
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in Bahrain, and the Al Basra oil terminal. In cases we |
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analyze, we can almost certainly detect any attack, even |
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though the attacker, observing our pre-positions, plans |
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clever, evasive attack tracks. |
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Date Published: 2018-06-23 04:59:17 |
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Identifier: DTIC_ADA483646 |
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Item Size: 39446780 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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