STAWs: New Threat from Above: Smart Top Attack Weapons,

Abstract

New Smart Top Attack Weapons (STAWs) are rapidly emerging in the research world and entering the battlefield, exposing our soldiers to a new threat. We need to develop doctrine, tactics, and a training program to tell our soldiers how they can reduce their vulnerability to this new family of antitank weapons. The performance of the first-generation STAWs is so impressive - and the advances in STAW supporting sensor and computational so rapid - that we must act now to develop a doctrines which addresses this threat. To delay would virtually ensure that American soldiers will face STAW systems without the training and knowledge necessary to operate effectively in the STAW environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA323593

Entities

People

  • James H. Boschma

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Anti-Tank Weapons
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Battlefields
  • Countermeasures
  • Doctrine
  • Emerging Threats
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Guided Missiles
  • Lessons Learned
  • Millimeter Waves
  • Targets
  • Threats
  • Training
  • Vehicles
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.