Air Armament Symposium

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Air Armament Symposium

• General Ronald E. Keys
• COMACC
• 4 October 2005

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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

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Still Smaller Bombs
and on the water
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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

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Modernization Focus

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

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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

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Back-Up Slides
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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