Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (4): 1235-1245.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.04.20

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Effectiveness analysis of the US missile defense system based on kill-web evaluation

Xiaohan YAN, Hua CHAI, Qiangqiang XU   

  1. Space Engineering University, Beijing 101400, China
  • Received:2024-04-09 Online:2025-04-25 Published:2025-05-28
  • Contact: Hua CHAI

Abstract:

To meet the needs of future wars with systematic and intelligent features, modeling and analysis of kill chains/web become a study hotspot in the military field. Quantitative evaluation of kill chains/web in specific combat scenarios provide important references for improving combat effectiveness. This paper focuses on the US missile defense system as the main research object and conducts a system effectiveness analysis based on kill-web evaluation. Firstly, based on typical operational scenarios of the US missile defense system in different periods, a kill-web model based on complex web theory is constructed by distinguishing between intra-layer node capabilities and inter-layer node relationships. Secondly, redundancy, risk, and effectiveness are proposed as three quantitative evaluation indicators, and their specific meanings and calculation steps are given. Subsequently, simulation examples of kill-web evaluation are provided for different combat scenarios. Finally, suggestions for system optimization are provided based on the calculation results, verifying the feasibility of the proposed method. The proposed method can provide useful references for the modeling and analysis of kill-web.

Key words: kill-web, system evaluation, redundancy, risk, effectiveness

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