The problem of kill assessment: a challenge for radar tracking systems

Both current and future problems of kill assessment are discussed from a surface navy perspective. The basic terminology of kill assessment is discussed in the introduction, which provides the pedestrian background to the common vocabulary. Some of the underlying sources of potential kill assessment information and aspects of current decision taking methodology is discussed in the section on endo-atmosphere kill assessment. In the third section, the challenge of exo-atmospheric kill assessment is addressed and a discussion of how to deal with the dearth of data by a data collection experiment is detailed.