Assault Breaker is a Department of Defense (DOD) concept using standoff weapons to attack moving, rear echelon armor massed deep behind enemy lines. Presently, the only nonnuclear means for attacking these targets is by the use of manned, penetrating aircraft. The advantage of Assault Breaker is that it would permit attacking these targets with standoff weapons. The concept involves using an airborne radar; airborne or surface launchers; strike missiles with submunition dispensers; antiarmor selfguided submunitions that are dispensed over the target; and a communications, command and control network. Assault Breaker was conceived to obtain a uniquely high rate of kill at a much smaller risk and cost than present weapons permit. DOD officials believe Assault Breaker's fire rate could destroy in a few hours sufficient vehicles in Warsaw Pact reinforcement divisions to prevent their exploiting a breakthrough of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) defenses. Preliminary estimates of acquisition costs are about $5.3 billion.
Decisions to be Made in Charting Future of DoD's Assault Breaker
1981
27 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Missile Technology , Surface to surface missiles , Air to surface missiles , Standoff , Targeting , Submunitions , Guided projectiles , Antiarmor ammunition , Radar target designators , Communications networks , Command and control systems , Weapon system effectiveness , Military procurement , Cost effectiveness , Defense planning , Assault breaker missiles , Rear areas , Pave mover project
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