Hardened Target Munitions
Abstract
Hard Target Munitions program is an effort to hold at risk those highest priority assets essential to an enemy's warfighting capability that are protected by multiple layers of reinforced concrete, rock rubble, and/or earth overburden (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 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 target types described above, with fewer weapons and number of missions necessary to defeat targets and increase overall survivability. Direct Strike Penetrator Systems also includes an anlysis and report to evaluate the performance, operational suitability, and cost of alternative hard target defeat systems. This program is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P) because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 0604327F_4_3600_PB_2012
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY12 adjustment towards higher Air Force priorities.
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
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