Hardened Target Munitions
Abstract
Hard Target Munitions program is an effort to hold at risk those highest priority assets essential to enemy's war with multiple layers of reinforced concrete, rock rubble, and/or earth overburden. Other hardened targets include operations within caves, tunnels, and mountains built using rapidly improving construction equipment exported by allies and adversaries on a large scale. (Examples include enemy command and control facilities, air defense facilities, facilities for production, storage, and deployment of weapons including weapons of mass destruction, surface to surface missile launch sites, aircraft storage sites, artillery sites.) Potential solutions include (but are not limited to) Special Forces, convential short or long range ballistic missiles (land or sea launched), cruise missiles, direct attack munitions, and standoff weapons. Direct Strike Penetrator Systems project includes development of Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), an advanced precision guided penetrator munition that will provide the Air Force with an improved capability using air-to-surface conventional munitions to attack HDBTs, such as bunker and tunnel facilities, with fewer weapons and number of missions necessary to defeat targets and increase overall survivability. The system will hold at risk those highest priority assets essential to the enemy's warfighting ability, which are heavily defended and protected, providing a critical global strike capability not currently met by inventory conventional weapons. This program is in Budget Activity 4 , Advanced Component Development and Prototypes because RDT&E includes advanced component development activities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 0604327F_4_3600_PB_2011
- Change Summary Explanation
- Funds requested in FY09 OMNIBUS to start the MOP program. Request for funds and new start was approved. Additional changes to the program that are not shown above include $21.0M FY08 funds added via the same OMNIBUS request, and a $4.9M FY08 below threshhold request (BTR). The FY 2010 President's Budget submittal did not reflect FY 2011 through FY 2015 funding. Therefore, explanation of changes between the two budget positions cannot be made in a relevant manner.
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
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- Child Project: Direct Strike Penetrator Systems
- Child Accomplishment: MAJOR THRUST: Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) Weapon Development. Make changes to the B-52 Technology Demonstration design to allow integration of the MOP onto the B-2A.
- Child Accomplishment: MAJOR THRUST: Qualification Testing. MOP system qualification testing to allow weapon certification onto the B-2A.
- Child Accomplishment: MAJOR THRUST: System Test and Evaluation. Conduct ground and flight tests of the MOP weapon system in order to demonstrate weapon effectiveness and suitability.
- Child Accomplishment: MAJOR THRUST: Flight Test Asset Fabrication. Fabricate all hardware (weapons, loading adapters, and carriage equipment) needed to execute flight testing
- Child Accomplishment: MAJOR THRUST: Program Office Support. Provide government oversight of MOP weapon development.
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