Analysis for cooperative combat system of manned-unmanned aerial vehicles and combat simulation

Manned-unmanned aerial vehicle cooperative combat has became a focus in the research of combat operation recently. It maximizes the UAVs' autonomous combat capability and the manned aircraft's command and control capability so that it improves the comprehensive operational effectiveness. At present, the research on manned-unmanned aerial vehicles cooperative combat is still in exploration stage. The concept of cooperative combat is incomplete, and further simulation experiments need to be conducted. In this paper, the basic concept of cooperative combat of manned-unmanned aerial vehicle is described, system composition and structure are analyzed, and collaborative combat process is given. A new generalized Lanchester combat model with battlefield sensing coefficient and command & control capacity is established. The simulation results show that improving the cooperative combat capability, such as overall sensing capability and command & control capability is beneficial for a combat with relatively smaller cost. This combat model has theoretical reference value to research information war.