Research of the network structure in beyond-visual-range coordinated air combat

This paper abstracts the beyond-visual-range coordinated air combat entities and their relationships into nodes and edges based on the complex network theory. The network collaborative structure models are established in several cases which are no synergy, synergy of fires, synergy of sensors (tree/distributed command structure), synergy of sensors and C2 (tree/distributed command structure), synergy of sensors, C2 and fires (tree/distributed command structure), synergy of sensors, C2 and fires controlled by AWACS (tree/distributed command structure). This paper analyzes the network effect of the models and the result shows that the networked fire control system is a new fire control system which can meet requirements of the Network Centric Warfare (NCW). The main contribution in this paper is that it introduces the composition and technical characteristics of the networked fire control system, and then it compares the networked fire control system with the traditional fire control system for the weapon platform. It provides theoretical basis for the study of the subsequent BVRAC synergy.