Purpose – Availability of military systems is of major concern for military planners at both tactical (battle) level and at strategic level (long‐term national planning). Availability factors critically affect the operational effectiveness during military operations. Military systems are...

Maintaining a high level of availability of weapon systems during battles becomes important from the point of view of winning the battle. Due to attrition factors (failure due to battle damage and unreliability) and logistic delays in the repair process, maintaining the required level of...