standoff attack weapons

I WILL FIRST START WITH THE BEST OF THE BEST.

The AGM-158 ( used on B-52H, F-16C/D, F/A-18E/F, F-15E, F-117, B-1B, B-2, P-3C and S-3B) weapon is required to attack both fixed and relocatable targets at ranges beyond enemy air defenses and incorporates a high degree of stealth to improve its ability to penetrate enemy air defenses(more than 200 miles with a ER v. at 500 miles). After launch, it will be able to fly autonomously over a low-level, circuitous route to the area of a target, where an autonomous terminal guidance system will guide the missile in for a direct hit.

The key performance parameters for the system are Missile Mission Effectiveness, range, and carrier operability.

JASSM's midcourse guidance is provided by a Global Positioning System (GPS)-aided inertial navigation system (INS) protected by a new high, anti-jam GPS null steering antenna system. In the terminal phase, JASSM is guided by an imaging infrared seeker and a general pattern match-autonomous target recognition system that provides aimpoint detection, tracking and strike. It also offers growth potential for different warheads and seekers, and for extended range.

The passive IR sensor on JASSM is a medium wavelength sensor using a 256 X 256 focal plane array with an IFOV of 12 deg. Sensor is turned on with approximately 8 seconds to go to impact with a sampling rate of 5 Hz. There are normally about 10-15 good IR pictures to put into the automatic target correlating algorithm once the sensor comes up and stablizes. Sensor is mounted below the waterline but on centerline axis of the vehicle (i.e. it looks out the IR window on the lower forward portion of the munition).

ooh. Me next. AGM-86D. The AGM-86D Block II program is the Precision Strike variant of CALCM. It incorporates a penetrating warhead, updated state of the art, near-precision, GPS guidance, and a modified terminal area flight profile to maximize the effectiveness of the warhead. The penetrating warhead is augmented with two forward shape charges. To maximize the warheads effectiveness against hardened targets, the Block II will maneuver and dive onto its target in a near vertical orientation. The updated guidance system will increase the systems lethality by obtaining a less than 5 meter CEP. The Precision Strike variant of CALCM was successfully demonstrated in December 1996. A CALCM modified with a new precision GPS implementation flew for 4.5 hours, performed a newly developed steep terminal dive, and impacted the target within 2.5 meters of the aim point. The demonstration clearly showed that CALCM is capable of delivering it’s warhead with precision accuracy from extremely long standoff ranges.

NEXT IS THE

The LOCAAS is a miniature, autonomous powered munition capable of broad area search (110KM), identification, and destruction of a range of mobile ground targets. LOCAAS is a low-cost LADAR sensor coupled with a multimode warhead and a maneuvering airframe to produce a high performance submunition. The warhead can be detonated as a long rod penetrator, an aerostable slug, or as fragments based on the hardness of the target. The LADAR allows target aimpoint and warhead selection to be determined automatically. The powered LOCAAS uses small turbojet engine which is capable of powering the vehicle for up to 30 minutes. Powered LOCAAS has a 33 sq. nm search area. On 17 December 1998 the Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB awarded Lockheed Martin of Dallas TX a $32,942,000 Other-Transaction-for-Prototype contract to provide for the Powered Low Cost Autonomous Attack Submunition (P-LOCAAS) advanced technology demonstration.This program includes system design, concept definition, fabrication and test of a LOCAAS prototype. An Other Transaction is a special acquisition method to develop prototype projects for which most procurement laws and the Federal Acquisition Regulation do not apply, thus allowing greater flexibility in meeting government requirements. Expected contract completion date is 10 December 2001.

F-16 16 LOCAAS
F-15E 20 LOCAAS
F-22 16 LOCAAS
JSF 16 LOCAAS
B-52 64 LOCAAS
B-1 120 LOCAAS
B-2 192 LOCAAS

NEXT IS SUPERSONIC AND DEADLY....ENJOY

SM-4 RGM-165 Land Attack Standard Missile [LASM]
STANDARD Missile is taking on a new role in Naval Surface Fire Support (NSFS). Land Attack STANDARD Missile will provide fast response, precision naval fires in support of Army and Marine Corps forces ashore. The Navy is planning on converting older SM-2 Block II/IIIs to a LASM configuration, providing a significant cost savings. LASM utilizes an advanced Global Positioning System (GPS) guidance section to provide precision guidance. A modified MK125 warhead will provide significant lethality across the spectrum of fire support targets. LASM’s supersonic speed and range fill a key role along with existing and planned gun systems and cruise missiles. Raytheon recently completed the LASM Demonstration Program, including several ground and flight test which validated its role as a land attack missile.

The CNO decided in late 1998 to modify the Standard missile for a surface-to-ground strike role. Studies determined LASM as the most cost-effective way to provide a rapid response, and all weather strike capability in support of military power projection ashore. The LASM mission will provide the required range, lethality, responsiveness and accuracy needed to support Marine Corps Fire Support requirements for Operational Maneuver from the Sea. This version of the Standard Surface-to-air missile is be reconfirmed for use against targets ashore at ranges up to 200 miles. The land-attack Standard missile (LASM), fitted with an advanced warhead and guided by GPS and its own inertial navigation system, will put at risk targets up over 150 nm inland

PLEASE NOTE: that this weapon has been put on the back burner but could be deployed with fairly short noitice. There are also unconfirmed reports that a system much like this has been used for current operations on the war on terror. However, I think the DoD loves flaunting the fact that the U.S does not have a supersonic strike missile which in fact it may have one in semi-classified use.

THIS IS HUGE BUT SMALL!!!!!
Small Diameter Bomb / Small Smart Bomb(NOW IN OPERATION)
The Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) transition program (formerly known as Miniaturized Munitions Capability) will provide the warfighter with increased kills per sortie on current and future manned and unmanned aircraft. The Small Diameter Bomb system includes two variants of the Small Diameter Bomb, a bomb carriage system, a mission planning system and logistics support. One variant of the 250-pound class bomb is equipped with an INS/GPS guidance system suitable for fixed and stationary targets. The second variant adds a terminal seeker with automatic target recognition capabilities more suitable for mobile and relocatable targets. Boeing has joined with Northrop Grumman on the mobile target variant.

The size and accuracy of small diameter bombs allows aircraft to carry more munitions to more targets and strike them more effectively with less collateral damage. Because of its capabilities, the Small Diameter Bomb system is an important element of the Air Force's Global Strike Task Force. Under the official title of "Component Advanced Development for the Small Diameter Bomb," the program is being conducted by the Air Armament Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory Flight Vehicles Integration Branch located at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

Initial integration of the SDB is with the F-15E. Follow-on integration may occur with the F/A-22, F-35, UCAV, F-16 (Block 30/40/50), F-117, A-10, MQ-9, B-1, B-2, and the B-52.

The Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) is half the weight of the smallest bomb the Air Force uses today, the 500-pound Mark 82. It uses a 250 pound-class warhead that has demonstrated penetration of more than 6 feet of reinforced concrete. Utilizing a smaller weapon improves aircraft load-out and mission effectiveness. The size and accuracy of small diameter bombs allows aircraft to carry more munitions to more targets and strike them more effectively with less collateral damage. Because of its capabilities, the Small Diameter Bomb system is an important element of the Air Force's Global Strike Task Force.

The Air Force hopes to deploy the Small Diameter Bomb System by 2006 on the F-15E, followed by deployment on several other aircraft, including the F-22, JSF, F-16, B-2 and the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle. The B-2 is set to carry between 64 and 192-216 SDBs on one mission. In the case of the F-22, it will permit the destruction of up to eight targets on a single mission.

The Small Diameter Bomb range is classified (MAYBE 60+ miles) but expected to be extended by pop-out wings and the speed and altitude of the aircraft using itA Phase 3 version may have the ability to loiter or autonomously seek out targets. The Small Diameter Bomb is considered one of the most significant programs on the books because it will dramatically increase the strike capability of every combat aircraft in the inventory(IT IS OPERATIONAL)

AGM-142 Have Nap ---

The AGM-142 is a medium range conventional stand off missile that provides the Air Force with a precision man-in-the-loop capability for the B-52H to attack high value, fixed targets from standoff ranges.


The Have Nap has an inertial guidance system with data link, TV, or imaging infra-red homing. The munition's data link provides for single aircraft operation or the munition's guidance may be turned over to a second aircraft allowing the first aircraft to leave the area. The AGM-142 weighs 3000 lbs. It is 190 inches long, 21 inches in diameter, has a wing span of 78 inches, and is powered by a solid propellant rocket motor. The missile has a range in excess of 50 nautical miles. Warheads and seekers are modular and allow for four missile configurations. The AGM-142 can be assembled with either a 750-pound blast fragmentation warhead or an I-800 penetration 770-pound warhead, and can employ either a television or an imaging infrared seeker.

I'm getting real happy reading this thread!:nana: Makes me tingle all over!

Why don't some of the PLA fans post some info?? Gee I wonder why not??

I love this SLAM-ER missile!



SLAM-ER Missile

Description
The AGM-84K Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER), an evolutionary upgrade to the combat-proven SLAM, is an air-launched, day/night, adverse weather, over-the-horizon, precision strike missile. SLAM-ER achieved IOC in June 2000.

Features
SLAM-ER addresses the Navy's requirements for a precision-guided Standoff Outside of Area Defense (SOAD) weapon. SLAM-ER provides an effective, long range, precision strike option for both pre-planned and Target of Opportunity attack missions against land and maneuvering ship targets.

Most significant characteristics are: a highly accurate, GPS-aided guidance system; an imaging infrared seeker and two-way data link with the AWW-13 Advanced Data Link pod for Man-In-The-Loop (MITL) control; improved missile aerodynamic performance characteristics that allow both long range and flexible terminal attack profiles; an ordnance section with good penetrating power and lethality; and a user-friendly interface for both MITL control and mission planning. SLAM-ER was the first weapon to feature Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA), a revolutionary technological breakthrough that helps improve target acquisition in cluttered scenes, overcomes most IR countermeasures, and mitigates the effects of environmentally degraded conditions. The SLAM-ER is also the first weapon system with a moving target capability from standoff ranges. The SLAM-ER can be launched and controlled by F/A-18C/D, P-3s, and S-3 platforms. It can also be controlled by the F/A-18E/F. The SLAM-ER is extremely accurate, and has the best Circular Area of Probable (CEP) in the U.S. Navy’s inventory. The SLAM-ER remains the U.S. Navy’s only precision SOAD weapon.

Primary Function: Long range, air-launched precision land and sea attack cruise missile.
Contractor: The Boeing Company.
Date Deployed: June 2000.
Unit Cost: $500,000.
Propulsion: Teledyne Turbojet. Thrust is greater than 600 pounds.
Length: 172 inches (4.4 m).
Diameter: 13.5 inches (34.3 cm).
Wingspan: 7.2 feet (2.2 m).
Weight: 1,488 pounds (674.5 kg).
Speed: High Subsonic.
Range: Over-the-horizon, in excess of 135 nautical miles (250 km).
Guidance System: Ring Laser Gyro Inertial Navigation System (INS) with multi-channel GPS; infrared seeker for terminal guidance with Man-in-the-Loop control data link from the controlling aircraft. Upgraded missiles incorporate Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA).

FROM ENGLAND WITH LOVE.....GO AHEAD PUNK...TURN ON YOUR RADAR...BD POPEYE please read the bottom of this

The ALARM (Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile) is designed to destroy ground-based air defence radars and surface-to-air missile radars at more than 50 miles, thereby providing support to attack aircraft while penetrating hostile air defences. It does this by homing on to radar transmissions and following them down to their source. It entered service in the early 1990s and proved very effective in the Gulf War. A Tornado GR1 can carry seven ALARMs. One unique feature is the optional capability to loiter over a target area while continuing to search for targets. It provides attack aircraft with an on-board suppression capability which will enable them to press home attacks against heavily defended targets with a high probability of success.

When fired at an enemy radar source, the enemy can often detect the incoming missile and switch off their equipment, thereby depriving the missile of a target. ALARM will ascend to 40,000 feet from where it will deploy a parachute and descending slowly, using its seeker to search for any radiation source. Once the target has been acquired, the missile released the parachute and falls under gravity to the target. One other advantage with this system is that if the target shuts down before the missile has destroyed it, the missile remembers the location and will still hit the target. ALARM also has several direct modes, the an one allowing the missile to be fired directly at the SAM once the emitter has been located.

BD POPEYE...I have also heard reports lets just say threw the "grape vine" that F-18super hornets have been using these ALARMS near where this guy named " LITTLE KIM" lives. They go up to around 30 to 40,000 feet and then "toss" it at high speed giving it much more range than just 50 miles....Have you heard this??

One for the Europeans. KEPD 350 MAW Taurus.

KEPD 150 is a member of the TAURUS family of advanced long range, high precision stand-off weapon systems. It will provide the JAS 39 Gripen with an enhanced strike capability against a broad target spectrum. The accuracy and stand-off capability ensure highly effective weapons delivery while minimising the threat to aircraft and crew and largely avoiding collateral damage. The KEPD 150 successfully performed its first captive flight test on JAS 39 Gripen at the FMV Test Center in Linköping, Sweden, on 27 August 1998. The test was part of the definition phase contracted by the Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV). The KEPD 150 can be operational with the JAS 39 Gripen within five years. KEPD 150 has a high degree of commonality with the MAW TAURUS – KEPD 350 being in full scale development at TAURUS Systems GmbH for the German Air Force TORNADO under contract from the German BWB.

MAW Taurus KEPD 350, which will be fitted on the Tornado aircraft of the German Air Force. It can also be adapted for the Eurofighter. Delivery is scheduled for 2001. The project is managed by TAURUS Systems GmbH, a joint venture company owned by Dasa/LFK-Lenkflugkörper-systeme GmbH (67%) and Celsius AB, Bofors Missiles (33%).

The Taurus KEPD 350 is the first European Global Positioning System guided missile with large range (over 350 kilometers) against surface and point targets.

I love that comment.."go ahead punks tun on your radar"..Genius!:nana: Turn it on ..and the USN or USAF will turn it off. That's a fact.

BD POPEYE...I have also heard reports lets just say threw the "grape vine" that F-18super hornets have been using these ALARMS near where this guy named " LITTLE KIM" lives. They go up to around 30 to 40,000 feet and then "toss" it at high speed giving it much more range than just 50 miles....Have you heard this??

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I've heard this also. I cannot confirm it though. Those Super Hornets are probaly operating off a certain CV the USN has foward deployed in the Pacific. I would not at all be surprised if this were true. If it is that is a dangerous game the USN is playing. I know about tossing also called lofting. It was a technique practiced by A-7's....I once saw a A-7 in Jan '73 sink and old Gearing class destroyer by lofting a single 2000lb(MK 83) bomb. It hit amid ships and the old DD sunk straight away.