Comparison of the Efficiency of Deception and Hardening Plans in the Safety of Hard and Deeply Buried (HDBT) Structures

The cost of hardening of buried structures and construction and exploitation of deeply buried structures as well, is very high and on the other hand, the mechanisms for detection, recognition and destruction of Buried Structures are in everyday development. While this is a great challenging subject for utilizing these structures we need to review our safety plans. Jamming & CCD plans are some of the main branches of passive defense that cause the increase of munitions error CEP (Circular Error Probable) and can be used for proofing the performance of buried structures. In this paper we introduce the "Functional Availability" for the main measure of performance and also Jamming & CCD and hardening performance for a sample shallow buried structure is calculated and compared. The main axes of discussion in this paper are:•Governing restrictions over observability and vulnerability of buried structures•Opportunities and threats governing detection, identification and destruction of buried structures•Basic calculation of performance for passive defense plans on the basis of Functional Availability •Comparison between levels of effectiveness of hardening methods and Jamming & CCD plans