Strategically Hardened Facility Defeat
Abstract
(U) Building upon the successes of technology developed under the Counter Underground Facilities program, the Strategically Hardened Facility Defeat program will continue to develop alternative earth-penetrating technologies for the defeat of strategically hardened targets. The threat posed by the proliferation of hard and deeply buried targets with major strategic capabilities around the world is increasing dramatically. These strategically hardened facilities are used to harbor our adversaries’ most dangerous assets including leadership bunkers, command and control functions, and weapons of mass destruction. However, because the size and weight of traditional earth penetrating weapons scale exponentially with the depth of the facility, current warhead penetration depths are and always will be insufficient to reach many of these targets. As a result, a strategic capability gap exists and new approaches to earth penetration and warhead delivery are needed. This program leverages recent advances in earth-penetrating technologies for full defeat of strategically hardened facilities at depths inaccessible to traditional earth penetrating weapons. Technology developed under this program will be available for transition to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in FY 2010.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 98d198d7b0d0394bb2e44f800c646842
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