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4. Thrusts of The Time Critical Strike FNC Program
4. Thrusts of The Time Critical Strike FNC Program
Pages 35-44
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The integrated product team that provides guidance for the TCS FNC has identified many capability gaps and the enabling capabilities needed to defeat five classes of targets: · Expeditionary warfare targets with naval fires; · Relocatable targets at range; · Short-dwell mobile targets at range; · Moving targets at range; and · Active hard and deeply buried targets at range. Because of resource limitations, the TCS FNC is not scoped to try to eliminate all of the gaps in the capabilities needed to defeat the five classes of targets.
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The TCS FNC thrusts are as follows: Cruise missile real-time retargeting; · Image and video analysis; · Enhanced target acquisition and location system; · Precision strike navigation; · Mission-responsive ordnance; · High-speed antiradiation demonstration; · Weapons imagery link; and · Gun barrel erosion (and fatigue)
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The main limitation of this approach is that the loiter time of a cruise missile such as the Tomahawk is probably limited to about an hour at most. Thus, these thrusts represent an important but fragmentary approach to development of the overall capabilities needed for successful true loitering weapons.
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· Image compression: automatic compression of tactical imagery while maintaining target inforThe IVA program is envisioned to provide integrated software capabilities that can be transitioned to the Joint Services Imagery Processing System-Navy (JSIPS-N) image exploitation system via soft
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Work on battle damage detection and on image compression will not start until fiscal year 2005. The anticipated payoff of the IVA thrust is to improve the performance of JSIPS-N targeting for TCS against relocatable targets through the use of aided man-in-the loop image exploitation.
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Improving the azimuth error to less than 5 mils will have diminishing returns, as current GPS position errors become the dominant error source. Unless differential GPS is employed, a 0 mil error azimuth determination system would have a TLE of 8.6 m regardless of range.
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Overview Given the military importance of this program, this thrust should be pursued to a successful compleThrust 5: Mission Responsive Ordnance The objective of the mission responsive ordnance (MRO) program is to develop and demonstrate ordnance technologies that will enable a single cruise missile payload to defeat unitary, area, and dispersed land targets.
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The HSARM will provide increased standoff range, time-critical response, increased probability of target kill as a result of increased antiradiation homing accuracy, and increased terminal seeker accuracy. Because of its increased speed, range, and low-observable propulsion and steering (relative to the AGM-88E)
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Thrust 7: Weapons Imagery Link Overview An ability to control weapons in flight and to redirect them to an emergent target would greatly enhance the ability of naval and joint forces to execute time-critical strike. Such a capability requires a data link that is robust in the face of defensive jamming.
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are being developed concurrently. Experimental validation of designs is made difficult because full-scale testing of gun barrels is costly, and there are serious and challenging issues surrounding how one extrapolates and demonstrates fatigue life and erosion rates using scale models to simulate many cycles of gun firing.
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