AMC-SWMO Countermeasures Study. Volume 1. Guide to How Countermeasures Affect Smart Weapons
Abstract
This volume provides background technical and programmatic information on the complex subject of how smart weapon sensors are affected by countermeasures (CMs) on the battlefield. This report defines Cms as devices, techniques, or actions that respond to a specific weapon action or capability. The subject of this volume will be threat CMs and how US Army smart weapons can be made to be more robust in a CM environment. The focus is on the technical details of threat CM classes. These classes are designated as: signature alteration, decoys, and deception, obscurants, and jammers and directed-energy weapons (DEWs). In addition to a technical discussion of CM classes, the process by which the Army incorporates CM effects into the design, analysis, requirements definition, and testing of smart weapons will also be discussed. The roles and responsibilities of various Government agencies involved in the CM assessment process are presented as it currently exists. Guidelines and suggestions are presented and discussed to assist the smart weapon system program manager (PM) in ensuring that more CM robust smart weapons are developed. Although the PM is the primary focus of this volume, everyone involved in the smart weapon and CM planning process should benefit from the information provided. Smart weapons, Smart sensors, Precision guided munitions, countermeasures, Electronic countermeasures, Infrared countermeasures, Laser countermeasures, Decoys, Obscuration, Millimeter waves, Handbooks.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA271628
Entities
People
- Eric J. Borg
- James Lawson
- Kim Eubank
- Paul Lavalee
- W. K. Fluhler