The Evaluation of Information Contribution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Integrating into the Air Combat System

In this paper, the system contribution rate of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the combat system was analyzed based on the impact of a single information on the effectiveness of system operations in the typical scenarios of UAV cooperative operations. Firstly, according to characteristics of manned aircrafts and drones cooperative operation system, the components of elements and elements' relationship of air combat platform system, the information and information activities in the system were analyzed. Then, using the method of operational network analysis, air combat network nodes and information activities between them were modeled to construct the air combat network. Finally, a new evaluation way of information contribution degree using complex network analysis method was proposed, which was introduced with an evaluation case of UAV integrated into air combat system.