The intended idea of this short paper is to describe the weapon effectiveness simulation systems (WESS) application, which supports the simulation of joint anti-submarine systems (JAS). It is stated that JAS are complex and that the proposed approach to their simulation addresses the shortcomings of theoretical models. First, a hierarchical structure of JAS is presented at a high level using unified modeling language (UML)-like diagrams. This high-level presentation results in a generic model devoid of any meaningful interpretation. The next section introduces an example to illustrate planning waypoints for a helicopter to search for a submarine. A circle configuration with eight sonobuoys as waypoints is used to set up the simulation. It is stated that the physical JAS models are built into the system. The next step consists of applying a WESS workflow to prepare the actual simulation. A screen snapshot of the simulation displaying the circle, the sonobuoys, the helicopter, and the submarine is used to illustrate the simulation.

Overall, the paper provides a verbose and skeletal description of WESS. Without any background, it seems to be intended just to inform the audience of the existence of this system. It fails to convey any technical information either to the expert or to the novice. Moreover, the ACM CCS keywords provided in the paper do not bear any relevance to its content.