Interdiction: Shaping Things to Come.
Abstract
Interdiction, based on the core competencies of precision employment and information dominance will still be used to shape the battlespace in 2025. The critical pieces of these core competencies - accuracy, lethality, target identification, and cycle time - will necessarily undergo great change in the next 30 years. The result of these changes will be interdiction with a different face but the same heart. Interdiction in 2025 will require affordable enhancements to current capabilities in the areas of accuracy, lethality, target detection/identification, and timeliness, allowing the war fighter to shape the battlespace in revolutionary ways. A number of technological "leaps" will drive these required changes. Penetrating sensors and designators, coupled with microtechnology, will permit weapons to have the processing power required to "touch" targets in exactly the right spot. Variable lethality will permit the option of killing, delaying, deterring, or breaking targets. Synergistically combining these capabilities with intelligent system logic processing, improved target detection, decreased sensor-to-weapon cycle time, and air power will provide the necessary pieces to dominate the battlespace. Among the systems required to build the interdiction system of systems in 2025 are: beyond-electromagnetic sensors; acoustic, penetrating, and variable-yield weapons; sensory netting; energy and particle weapons; and a virtual observe, orient, decide, and act (OODA) loop. From these systems, a nexus of three enabling technologies emerges. If pursued, these technologies will provide the leveraged investment necessary to revolutionize interdiction.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA332935
Entities
People
- Charles B. Oltman
- Steven S. Kempf
- Theodore P. Ogren
- Thomas K. Moore
- William T. Davidson Jr.
Organizations
- Air Command and Staff College