Beyond Smart Weapons 38 th Annual Air Armament Symposium Dr. John Beach Wilcox, SES! Director! AFRL Munitions Directorate! Eglin AFB, FL!
PlaLorms Evolving & Arming the Combat Aircraft Gen 1 - WWI Gen 2 WWII Gen 3- Korea/Viet Gen 4 ODS/OIF Gen 5 Near Term Gen 6 Far Term Weapons 1 A/G target Hand dropped munitions No guidance No bomb site Circle target 1 A/A target-guns Carpet bombing More munitions the better Multiple passes Norden bomb site AAA A/C Airspeed Advent of Laser guidance One target, one munition post 1970 Start Air Refuel SAMs Gen 1 Stealth Robust LGB A/C GPS Guidance Wpn GPS Start of UAS Start of LCD Internal Carriage ECM/Stealth/ Speed In flight target updates Robust UAS Capability & Capacity Unmanned platforms Swarm technologies Selected effects DE Novel Payloads/ Effects Leverage 4 th Gen / Enable 5 th Gen / Design 6 th Gen
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What I Heard You Say
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Weapons C 2 Layered Sensing A2AD Datalinks / Comm JTAC SOF Air Sea Battle
Cooperative Attack Collective Defeat Concept Increased Effect / Capacity Threat Saturation
Acceptable Autonomy Via Trust & Flexibility Able to Man-in-the-Loop Flex to new Rules of Engagement
Weapons C 2 Immersive Environment Adv 3D/2D LVC Dynamic IW / MCO Scenario Generation 5 th /6 th Gen ª ISR Linkage ª JTAC / SOF Cooperative, Multi-Target Attack Support KE / DE / NKE Missions Concept / SoS Analysis
What Are We Doing NOW? Fuzes Energetics Damage Mechanisms Seekers AGN&C M&S / Effects
Munitions Systems Effects Fuze Technologies Damage Mechanisms MUNITIONS DIRECTORATE CORE TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES Physical Effects Target Sim Reacquisition & Fuze Virtual Navigation & Electronics Environment Material Recognition Design Science Sim Theory Formulation, Manufacturing & Producibility Hard Guidance Weapon Target Target Energy EO/IR Fuzing & Avionics Interaction Seekers Characterization & Phenomenology Conservation Physics Terminal Applied Control Munition Burst Energy RF Point Seekers Systems Effects Control Theoretical Energetics & Design Effects Initiation Munitions Computational Science Coupling Multi-Spectral Aerodynamics Sciences Physics / Multi- Aperture Seekers Energetic Materials Munitions Aero, GN&C Terminal Seekers
A Requirement to Innovate 5 th /6 th Gen A/C using 3 rd /4 th Gen Weapons This is now That was then Layered Sensing Coopera8ve Control/C2 KE / DE / NKE Effects Datalink Survivability Example: Conceptual 250 lb Class Internal Carriage a SIGNIFICANTLY more dynamic, sophisticated capability All AFRL Directorates Involved AFRL/RW Lead an S&T Enterprise for Weapons Weapons + Platform + Command & Control + Layered Sensing = Required Capability
What Are We Doing NOW? Air Superiority Long Range Strike Counter HDBT Next Gen Interdiction Close Controlled Strike Operational Access / ASB IWEA
What Are We Doing NOW? A/S Tech & SEAD / DEAD
What Are We Doing NOW? HSSW Demo
What Are We Doing NOW? HVPW to HTM
What Are We Doing NOW? Functional Defeat
What Are We Doing NOW? Symmmetric / Assymetric Options for Counter A2AD
What Are We Doing NOW? KE / DE / NKE Payloads & Effects
How Do We Make It Work? Partnerships Industry and DoD Teaming IR&D CRADA
Munitions Directorate (RW) Span of Influence
Breaking News! Industry, Academia, Fed/State/Local Govt Partnerships Introducing DI, Incorporated 30 July 2012! outside the fence ins8tutes provide AFRL an excep8onal forum to accelerate open innova8on, collabora8ons and STEM outreach. TDs are directed to develop, maintain, and enhance the outside the fence centers MG William McCasland, AFRL/CC
What About the Money All you hear: What You Need to Hear:
Addressing the Challenge Leveraging Investments
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