Transcript Air Armament 100105

Headquarters Air Combat Command
Air Armament Symposium
General Ronald E. Keys
COMACC
4 October 2005
This Briefing is:
UNCLASSIFIED
What I said last time
(and the time before that):
• Weapons Transformation
• Weapons Worked Well
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Need a big precision inventory
Need all-weather precision
Still need unguided weapons
Still need cluster weapons
• What We Could -----Have Used-•
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Interoperability across platforms
Smaller
bombs
Still Smaller
Bombs
Larger bombs
Counter WMD
“Auto-BDA” weapons
Mobile targets in weather …and on the water
Target identification
Multi-Mode Seekers
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
Modernization Focus
• Future Air Force weapon systems
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Multirole / multiservice
Small deployment package
Persistent
Long range with a lethal payload
Plug-n-Play
Shaping the Future
• BBQ
• Budget
• BRAC
• Quadrennial Defense Review
• Recapitalization
• New / New
• Old / New
• New / Old
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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”
Headquarters Air Combat Command
This Briefing is:
UNCLASSIFIED
Back-Up Slides
Advance Targeting Pods
• LITENING AT and Sniper XR enables more effective
mission accomplishment
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Airborne Forward Air Controller
Close Air Support
Time Sensitive Targeting
Strike Coordination and Reconnaissance
• Non-Traditional ISR
• Combat ID
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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