ARMY WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT

Army, Oct 2006

The SAL Hellfire II guides on laser energy reflected off the target. It has three warhead variants: a dual warhead, shapedcharge (HEAT) for armored threats (AGM114K); a blast-fragmentation warhead (BFWH) for urban, patrol boat and other "soft" targets (AGM-114M); and a metal augmented charge (MAC) warhead (AGM114N) for urban structures, bunkers, caves and personnel.

The Longbow Hellfire (AGM-114L) is also a precision-strike missile, but uses millimeter wave (MMW) radar guidance instead of Hellfire II's SAL. It is the principal anti-tank system for the AH-64 Apache and uses the same anti-armor warhead as Hellfire II. The MMW seeker provides beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) fire-and-forget capability as well as the ability to operate in adverse weather and battlefield obscurants.

During Operation Desert Storm, Hellfire earned a reputation for being one of the military's most formidable tank killers. Its multimission capabilities were successfully demonstrated in combat against a wide variety of targets, including radar installations, communications posts, bunkers, buildings, antiaircraft emplacements, oil rigs and bridges. Hellfire missiles were also used extensively in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom. The Longbow Hellfire missile was used successfully in combat for the first time during OIF.

The AGM-169 Joint Common Missile (JCM) program is designed to meet the infantry, aviation and armor requirements of the next-generation missile system. The missile will be used on joint and allied service helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and UAVs, and as an eventual replacement for the Hellfire, TOW and Maverick families of missiles. JCM will provide a common, multimode weapon capable of satisfying the needs across the joint platforms. It will autonomously engage targets using lineof-sight (LOS) and beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) engagement capabilities, including precision-strike and fire-and-forget technologies.

Lockheed Martin received a contract to work on the system design and development (SDD) phase of JCM.

The Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS) is an adaptation of the manportable Stinger system that is designed to engage low-altitude targets.

Cruise Missile Defense Systems (CMDS)

The CMDS project office is equipping the transformation of the current force Maneuver Air and Missile Defense capability into an Integrated Air and Missile Defense capability.

Programs include Stinger-based Avenger and Man Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS), Surface Launched AMRAAM, the Sentinel radar, Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS) and Directed Energy Applications (DEA).

Stinger-based Avenger and MANPADS provide high mobility and shoot-on-themove capabilities through Stinger, a fireand-forget infrared/ultraviolet (IR/UV) missile system. Stinger is currently the only air defense weapon in the forward area.

Surface-Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM), is a net-centric Block I of EAADS extendedrange capability in support of the Future Force. Critical initial EAADS Block I capabilities will be achieved with the SLAMRAAM system of systems through the development of a fire unit and BMC4I/integrated fire-control station (IFCS); integration of Sentinel enhanced target range and classification (ETRAC) and joint land attack cruise missile defense elevated network sensor QLENS); and AMRAAM missile. The SLAMRAAM BMC4I will be fully integrated and compatible with Army AMD and the Future Combat System (FCS) networks. SLAMRAAM provides a critical overmatch capability against the rapidly evolving CM, UAV, FW and RW.