Missile/Air Defense Product Improvement Program

Abstract

Project 036 PATRIOT Product Improvement Program (PIP): PATRIOT is an advanced Surface-to-Air guided missile system with a high probability of kill capable of operation in the presence of Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) and able to conduct multiple simulataneous engagements against high performance air breathing targets and ballistic missiles likely to be encountered by US Forces. The PATRIOT Product Improvement Program provides for the upgrade of the PATRIOT System through individual materiel changes. The PATRIOT Product Improvement Program upgrades the PATRIOT system to address operational lessons learned, enhancements to joint force interoperability, and other system performance improvements to provide overmatch capabillity with the emerging threat. Efforts will be made to expedite PATRIOT materiel solutions (e.g. Radar Digital Processor, Communications Upgrades, Radars on the Net) to both enhance capability and facilitate integration into the Integrated Air Missile Defense (IAMD) architecture. Project 038 Avenger PIP: The Avenger Air Defense System is a lightweight, highly mobile surface-to-air missile and gun weapon system mounted on a High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). The system employs a canopied turret consisting of a gunner position, two gyro-stabilized missile launcher pods containing four STINGER missiles each, a Forward Looking Infrared Receiver (FLIR), a Laser Range Finder (LRF), an Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system, and a very high rate of fire .50 caliber machine gun. The gun system is used against ground targets and to cover the Stinger missile dead-zone. Avenger is capable of day, night and adverse weather operations, can be transported by Utility Helicopter-60L Blackhawk or C-130 aircraft, is air-droppable and can shoot on the move. The system can also be operated by remote control from a protected position up to 50 meters away from the fire unit. The Avenger system is operated by a crew of two to counter hostile low flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), cruise missiles, attack helicopters, and high performance fixed winged aircraft. The system fills the line-of-sight rear component of the Forward Area Air Defense (FAAD) system. The Avenger PIP provides for the design, development, integration and testing asociated with modernization and added capability to the Avenger Weapon System. Project DT5 Stinger Product Improvement: The Stinger Block I missile is an advanced, fire-and-forget, short-range, man-portable, air defense weapon system. It provides low-altitude defense for ground forces against attack or aerial observation by low-flying Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), Cruise Missile (CM), Rotary Wing (RW), and Fixed Winged (FW) threats. Stinger employs an infrared (heat seeking)/ultraviolet seeker to guide to the target. Stinger Block I missiles have extensive infrared counter-countermeasure capabilities and can engage targets from any aspect to include head-on. The missile utilizes a high-explosive, hit-to-kill warhead. Stinger can be fired from the shoulder or from a variety of platforms to include ground vehicles and helicopters. The missile is delivered as a certified wooden round and requires no field testing or maintenance. The Stinger Product Improvement provides design, development, test and integration of a Proximity Fuze into the existing Stinger Block I missiles. The Proximity Fuze will improve system effectiveness against the evolving UAS threat. Unmanned Aerial System Defense (UAS-D) is a requirement of the Operational Requirements Document (ORD) for the Stinger Guided Missile System.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 0203801A_7_2040_PB_2014
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Defense
• Aircrafts
• Cost Analysis
• Counter Countermeasures
• Cruise Missiles
• Electronic Countermeasures
• Guided Missiles
• Helicopters
• Lessons Learned
• Proximity Fuzes
• Surface To Air Missiles
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Vehicles
• Weapon Systems

Readers

• Missile Defense Systems.
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Directed Energy
• Microelectronics
• Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems