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Air Armament Symposium

Air Armament Symposium. General Ronald E. Keys COMACC 4 October 2005. What I said last time (and the time before that):. Weapons Transformation Weapons Worked Well Need a big precision inventory Need all-weather precision Still need unguided weapons Still need cluster weapons

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Air Armament Symposium

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  1. Air Armament Symposium General Ronald E. Keys COMACC 4 October 2005

  2. What I said last time (and the time before that): • Weapons Transformation • Weapons Worked Well • Need a big precision inventory • Need all-weather precision • Still need unguided weapons • Still need cluster weapons • What We Could Have Used • Interoperability across platforms • Smaller bombs • Larger bombs • Counter WMD • “Auto-BDA” weapons • Mobile targets in weather • Target identification • Multi-Mode Seekers ------ -- Still Smaller Bombs …and on the water

  3. Weapons Capabilities • Where we are going: • Extended range • Joint Air-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM-ER) • Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD-ER) • Increased Carriage: Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) • Mobile Targets: SDB II / Weapons Datalink • Counter Maritime: JASSM, WCMD-ER/SFW, SDB II • Increased Flexibility: Joint Programmable Fuse • Transition to multi-sensor, multi-role munitions

  4. Modernization Focus • Future Air Force weapon systems • Multirole / multiservice • Small deployment package • Persistent • Long range with a lethal payload • Plug-n-Play

  5. Shaping the Future • BBQ • Budget • BRAC • Quadrennial Defense Review • Recapitalization • New / New • Old / New • New / Old • Has to be “Spiral-able” • Has to be “Slice-able” • Has to be Joint “Net-able” • Has to be “Reuse-able” • Has to be “Support-able”

  6. Back-Up Slides

  7. Advance Targeting Pods • LITENING AT and Sniper XR enables more effective mission accomplishment • Airborne Forward Air Controller • Close Air Support • Time Sensitive Targeting • Strike Coordination and Reconnaissance • Non-Traditional ISR • Combat ID • Kill the correct target • Avoid Blue-on-Blue Fratricide • Reduce collateral damage • Capabilities • Video DownLink • 3rd Gen FLIR, 50K Laser, Laser Spot Tracker • J-series precise coordinate generation

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