Saturation attack based route planning and threat avoidance algorithm for cruise missiles

According to the characteristic of cruise missiles, navigation point setting is simplified, and the principle of route planning for saturation attack and a concept of reference route are put forward. With the help of the shortest-tangent idea in route-planning and the algorithm of back reasoning from targets, a reference route algorithm is built on the shortest range and threat avoidance. Then a route-flight-time algorithm is built on navigation points. Based on the conditions of multi-direction saturation attack, a route planning algorithm of multi-direction saturation attack is built on reference route, route-flight-time, and impact azimuth. Simulation results show that the algorithm can realize missiles fired in a salvo launch reaching the target simultaneously from different directions while avoiding threat.