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May 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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This is an important point. While attention is usually focused on a new interceptor, its performance & potential, what often gets overlooked is the incremental enhancements made to the overall system to prepare for the new missile, or to keep pace with the threat. See 📸👇 ImageImageImage
👆was published in the mid 1990s just as PATRIOT was preparing to introduce the PAC-3. As included in the paper, at the time, one of the biggest gains was the ability to emplace launchers up to 30 km from the RS. The Army's IAMD-BCS #IBCS extends that to 150 km via IFCN relays.
Wish I could share some of my past threads on this capability. Here's a snippet of what this capability (IBCS / IFCN relays) does to Army's Air and Missile Defense capability. A-IAMD is essentially fully replacing PATRIOT. I'll post more below. Image
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Why Is the US Air Force investing in a family of high speed weapons when it is also producing tens of thousands of much lower cost JASSM-ER and low-cost cruise missiles? 🧵👇 goes into this in a bit more detail. 1/7 #HighSpeedStrike #Hypersonic
First, let’s look at why high-speed weapons are useful. The 📸👇 captures the challenge. Strike weapons need to deliver range, overcome challenges associated with time and track custody, and be survivable against modern integrated air defense systems. The balance between these three main requirements drivers is crucial. This is why, no single class of weapons can solve all problems. 2/7Image
Subsonic missiles are very efficient and offer one of the most cost-effective way to achieve long range strike. Their lack of speed, time-of-flight, and depending on the weapon, survivability against sophisticated IADS will always remain a challenge. Cheaper and simpler high speed weapons like modified ground launched ballistic missiles (for Air Launch) or ALBMs offer high speed, mid-long range performance but are still vulnerable against BMD systems. Highly advanced boost glide systems are expensive, technically challenging to develop and produce affordably, and fly slower than traditional ALBMs. But their ability to operate at lower altitudes makes them significantly more survivable. Likewise, air—breathing hypersonics are significantly more efficient, package better (smaller / lighter and easier to carry for tactical platforms) but pose technical challenges in development and testing across the envelope and scaling to longer ranged systems. The threat, to a large degree, dictates the portfolio of capabilities needed. 3/7Image
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Jun 27
Something I’ve been calling for here for at least half a decade if not more. This is the correct way to signal intent to industry and Congress and secure funding for production ramp. 👍
This 4x ⬆️ in the acquisition objective for the PAC-3 MSE also puts into perspective the recent US Army interest in qualifying a second seeker into missile system. With 13,000+ missiles being the objective, the Army can affordable recompete the seeker.
As I have noted before, PAC-3 MSE's kinematic performance exceeds the ability of legacy PATRIOT radar & limits engagement to sub 1,500 km ranged TBMs. This is changing with MSE being integrated into THAAD, MSEs block V seeker, and IAMD & LTAMDS radar.
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Jun 17, 2024
I'm often asked, why ⤵️costs $100K. Coyote includes features that are highly desirable for its intended role of protecting fixed/semi fixed sites (large OCONUS installations). If all we want is a cheap point defense solution look no further than the standard or L3/TSC upg APKWS.
Its actually quite sensible to have options across the performance & cost spectrum against G2 and 3 threats while focusing more on EW, DEW or gun based solutions for smaller G1 drones. Fielding layered capabilities is highly desirable.
There are genuine needs that cannot be met with a one size fits all solution or just fielding more guns/CIWS or similar systems. Considerations include launcher emplacement, areas of an installation you don't want to engage (or even fly) targets over & having the speed and range Image
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"We were tasked in Jan 2023 to deliver BMD capability to 🇺🇦..the training occurred at Fort Sill, and in April we conducted a validation exercise in 🇵🇱. #PATRIOT was transferred to protect Kyiv in late April & at 02:30 AM [May 04] it engaged the first ALBM " Col Rosanna Clemente
"We parachuted a [ADA] team into 🇺🇦..and they did an assessment in December of 2021..They took some of our #PATRIOT folks/planners. They spent some time with the Ukrainians and looked at the problem set that..2 months later they were absolutely facing" BG Maurice Barnett
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May 18, 2024
The Joint Simulation Environment #JSE is DOD’s next-gen digital test & training range made up of cockpits, domed simulators & a/c software. It enables pilots to fly wartime scenarios in a near-exact virtual environ & a/c developers to push systems to extreme limits.. ~ US Navy Image
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The DOD is moving ahead with rapidly developing an Imaging Infrared Seeker seeker for the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System. Emphasizing low cost & optimized to defeat the Small UAS threat, DOD wants the seeker to cost <$10K to keep the overall CsUAS #APKWS+ cost under $50K.
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