This Briefing is:UNCLASSIFIED

Headquarters Air Combat Command

Air Armament SymposiumAir Armament Symposium

General Ronald E. KeysCOMACC

4 October 2005

General Ronald E. KeysCOMACC

4 October 2005

• 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

What I said last time (and the time before that):

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

Modernization Focus

• Future Air Force weapon systems• 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• 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”

This Briefing is:UNCLASSIFIED

Headquarters Air Combat Command

Back-Up Slides

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