1. (U//FOUO) Wide Area Security. The Gray Eagle has conducted Wide Area Security (WAS) missions for over ten years. Its success has largely been contingent on its Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) Full Motion Video (FMV) sensor package. The EO package provides the commander with near real-time color FMV of the battlefield, allowing him to make informed, timely decisions. It offers commanders with high-resolution detailed imagery of potential High-Value Targets, insertion locations/buildings, as well as the ability to provide direct support to ground units. This support not only comes in the form situational awareness of the battlefield in areas the ground troops are unable to see, but also in the form of a lethal strike package to destroy hardened targets. This extends his lethal …show more content…
The IR provides additional support, specifically in adverse weather conditions and periods of low illumination, areas that EO is unable to collect in. It also provides the ability to view thermal heat signatures and laser designate targets. The ability to view thermal signatures is especially essential when tracking targets in moderate levels of vegetation or other areas when they may try to conceal themselves. It can also inform commanders if vehicles have recently moved. This can be helpful when attempting to track vehicles leaving improvised explosive device emplacement sites or cache locations in smaller rural areas where vehicle traffic is limited, especially during periods of darkness. 2. (U//FOUO) Combined Arms Maneuver. The Gray Eagle has yet to be fully tested in the Combined Arms Maneuver (CAM) battlefield but will take many of the
(FOUO) The mission of the CRD is to plan, conduct, and provide CBRN reconnaissance and surveillance support for special operations forces in support of strategic, operational, and tactical objectives in all operational environments to support functional and geographic combatant commander intents and objectives. (ATP 3-11.24)
unmanned are being used in the new concept of military operations. The placement of Special
PRECISION ENGAGEMENT provides NORAD the capability to precisely engage threats throughout the full range of our surveillance coverage to ensure off-shore threat engagement well before air and space weapons threaten Canadian or American citizens. This requires agile platforms with lethal munitions to enage targets more responsively and accurately from longer distances and precise, immediate operational assessments with the agility to re-engage if required. The system will include a flexible, near real-time targeting architecture, including space-based wide area surveillance, rapid identification, tracking, and near real-time sensor to shooter links.
The world is changing, becoming smaller and more dangerous it seems, and the events of September 11th, 2001, brought a distinct reality crashing down around us. The reality was that we could be hit on the home front, after all. The enemy determined to do so harbors zero concern for the “rules of war” and will stop at nothing to inflict the greatest amount of carnage and casualties possible. As the government and Department of Defense has worked to adapt and respond, there is one Army occupational specialty that has become increasingly relevant. That Army unit is known as Technical Escort (TE). In today’s age, our public officials and military commanders need rapid, real-time surety and assessments of suspected weapons of mass destruction (WMD), toxic and/or poisonous waste, and special material facilities affected by natural disaster. As the battlefield grows ever more asymmetrical, the capabilities TE units can provide will continually become more valuable and pertinent to our nation’s WMD defense.
... of Staff, Joint Operations, Joint Publication 3-0 (Washington, DC: U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, 11 August 2011),III-10
Several Air Defense Weapon Systems secured their places in the Hall of Fame of Air Defense history. Developed during times of world conflicts and the age of technology, these systems continue to play an integral and exciting role in U.S. Air Defense.
...urveillance areas. Maximizing effectiveness of signal intelligences while executing patrols. The areas will be synchronized to battalion assets. Patrols are made by all possible assets during employment. The intelligence assets are to include information for the targeting development.
Night Vision- Night Vision Goggles are electronic devices designed for observing remote objects and orientation at night. Special military, security forces, pilots, paratroopers, security agents and tact ops commandos have used this equipment.
2. The F-35 Lightening II has the potential to become one of the most versatile aircraft in the Air Force’s arsenal. It is one of only two fifth generation aircraft, designed to replace an array of ageing aircraft, to include, the A-10 Thunderbolt, the F-16 Falcon, the F/A 18 Hornet, and AV-8b Harrier. To be able to replace this long list of aircraft, the F-35 was designed with some of the most advanced sensors and sophisticated weapons systems, giving the aircraft 360 degrees of situational awareness. When asked about the survivability of the aircraft in air to air combat, Air Force Chief General Mark Welsh stated, “(the enemy
US ARMY (FM 3-11.19, Multiservice Tactics, Techniques, and procedures Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Reconnaissance, 2004)
First entering service in 1980s, this twin-engine fighter plane was U.S.’s first strike fighter aircraft capable of attacking both the ground and the aerial targets. It has seen action in the Operation Desert Storm and as aircraft of Navy’s Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron. The F/A-18 is used by many different countries.
There are many agencies that have the ability to perform Signals Intelligence, electronic reconnaissance and most of all signals intelligence from all available sources inducive to the environment. The United States Army uses the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) as its main entity for signals collection. The Joint STARS platform was designed to provide a highly effective, real-time, collection tool to the ground task force commanders during battlefield engagements, but for the past ten years, the sensor has been used for peacekeeping missions. Army analysts can predict the enemy’s behavior by identifying choke points, potential avenues of approach and operating patterns such as supply routes and logistical points. The analysis gives the ground commander a more complete view of the enemy’s weaknesses. The United States Air Force employs the Joint STARS in a different mission than the Army. The Air Force uses Joint STARS as a battlefield management tool versus a collection tool as used for by the Army. The Air Force uses the platform to provide immediate and direct support to the Air Component Commander and continue to observe the enemy’s movement from a far distance in the sky. Providing essential data to commanders such as size, direction, and speed of the adversaries, with minimum casualties while under battlefield conditions, makes the Joint STARS an extremely effective tool. The Air Force also employs the Predator vehicles, which are unmanned aerial vehicles that are used for reconnaissance.
This new technology helps the commanding officers know what is going on by that they can be back at there command base and watch raids unfold on large screens and watch real time footage. This allows them to know what exactly what is taking place.
There are many types of technological developments in the military happening at all times. They range from new aircraft to sophisticated guidance systems. Teams of specialists work for years to develop some of our simplest equipment. These people’s everyday lives are devoted to the safety and protection of the citizens of the U.S.