Protection: Weapons need protection against an enemy who will be fighting back. Kinetic, directed electromagnetic and electronic mitigation of a peer adversary is part of the solution. To fight in the future battlespace requires the assessment of an unpredictable enemy, but one who has similar peer technol- ogy. Our systems must be able also to attack and defeat their systems, which are also increasingly electronically com- plex, highly maneuverable and guided by autonomous programs.
As our weapons head to the target, the enemy will be fighting back. Our weap- ons will have to perform very fast evasive maneuvers and generate their own force field or “cloaking-device,” because the enemy will be defending its site with anti- aircraft or anti-artillery-type defenses. Tese are all extremely hard science problems.
Crippling blows of the future will rely on a small number of dispersed entities to deliver overwhelming kinetic and non- kinetic effects by combining omni-speed, radical maneuverability and navigation in contested environments and efficient payload-kill mechanisms. Omni-speed and radical maneuverability depend on long-range advances in propellants and aerodynamics so that a weapon can maneuver and change course based on a commander’s guidance. Navigation of teams of projectiles will require each round to be able to communicate with
the collaborative munitions on the team while on the path to the target.
CONCLUSION Trough
the fundamental research
program at ARL, scientists dig into prob- lems and move beyond the least likely approaches, in search of the one or two solutions that advance the technology through the Army’s research and devel- opment engineering centers.
Te benefit of the Distributed and Cooperative Engagements in Contested Environments research is effects that can be deployed either mounted on a vehicle or carried by dismounted Soldiers—con- sistent value regardless of what munitions it takes to deliver a desired outcome. Such future engagements will involve cooperation among munitions on the attack path and communication with warfighters, who will continue to retain ultimate control. Tese highly intelligent weapons will combine effects and mecha- nisms, maneuver and make high-speed robust decisions.
All these efforts underway in ARL’s research program combine electronics, energetics, propulsion, navigation and other technologies to cooperate in the battlefield of the future, and provide technology to the warfighter on the line and on time.
For more information, contact Frank Fresconi at
frank.e.fresconi.civ@mail.
DR. FRANK FRESCONI is the research lead for guided weapons technology at ARL. He leads a multidisciplinary group in applying experimental, numerical and theoretical tools to enable guided weapons. Tis research has produced contributions to the state of the art, including the first successful guided flight of indirect fire. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Delaware and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Bucknell University. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
DR. SCOTT SCHOENFELD is the senior scientist for the Lethality and Protection Sciences Campaign at ARL. He is responsi- ble for planning, direction and oversight of theoretical and applied research and devel- opment of programs associated with ballistics, terminal effects, mechanics, directed energy and computational science and engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in applied mechanics, an M.S. in mechanical engineering and a B.S. in structural engineering, all from the Uni- versity of California, San Diego.
ARL is developing the technologies to fit a set of tools that will be smarter, more aware, connected and autonomously collaborative.
DAN RUSIN, LT. COL., USA (RET.), serves as the U.S. Army Research, Develop- ment and Engineering Command lethality portfolio staff integrator, where he monitors lethality portfolio investments. He holds an M.S. in computer science from the Naval Postgraduate School and a B.S. in mechan- ical engineering technology from Temple University. He is Level III certified in pro- gram management, in test and evaluation and in science and technology management.
mil; Scott Schoenfeld at
scott.e.schoenfeld.
civ@mail.mil; or Dan Rusin at
daniel.s.rusin.civ@
mail.mil.
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