Research on the performance of multi-base buoy arrays under the condition of on-called anti-submarine and warship-helicopter cooperation

Naval Aviation University, Yantai, China

Abstract

In order to improve the performance of traditional on-called Anti-submarine, the method of combining the towed sonar and helicopter deployment with traditional buoy arrays for multi-base searching is proposed. Combining the acoustics principle and the actual movement characteristics of warships and helicopters, model of naval movement and multi-base passive circular buoy arrays,square buoy arrays, and triangle buoy arrays deployed by a helicopter were established. The Monte Carlo method was used to simulate and analyse the effect of the initial distance from the call point, the initial position of the submarine, the speed of the submarine economy, the size parameters of the float array and the number of deployments on the multi-base search performance under each formation. The simulation results show that the search performance of the three multi-base arrays decreases with the increase of the initial distance, the initial position of the submarine, and the speed of the submarine economy; the circular multi-base array has the best search performance, and the appropriate deployment radius and the number of passive buoys to be deployed can be selected according to different search requirements and actual operational conditions. This method is suitable for on-called anti-submarine within a certain distance, and has certain military significance for anti-submarine warfare.