Abstract:

With the widespread application of modern electronic equipment,such as drones,on the battlefield,the high-power microwave (HPM)weapons have shown great potential in future maritime air defense operations.A key issue that needs to be addressed is the threat assessment when HPM weapons are used in conjunction with conventional shipborne air defense weapons.To tackle this,a threat assessment model based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN)is established for evaluating the threat level of incoming targets by quantifying six core factors.Simulation experiments show that the KAN model maintains a threat assessment error below 0.036 with an average error of 0.0142,outperforming traditional BP network models and FABP network models.After incorporating HPM weapons,the corresponding quantitative indicators are adjusted,and the KAN model is used to predict the target threat values.The average target threat value is decreased by 0.0714.The HPM weapons can be usedsignificantly to enhance the air defense capabilities of naval vessels.

Key words: high-power microwave weapon, target threat assessment, Kolmogorov-Arnold network, residual activation function, sparse training