MAIN TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AVIATION HIGH-PRECISION SMALL AMMUNITION AMMUNITION

Abstract

Thus, there is currently a tendency to reduce the caliber of KerR and KAB, while their combat effectiveness is not reduced, the concomitant damage is reduced, and the amount of ammunition suspended per aircraft is significantly increased. In addition, Kerr and small-caliber CAB are well suited for equipping both strategic bomber and tactical aircraft, and combat UAVs, which are not currently designed for large-scale bombing.

Taking into account the progress made in various fields of materials science and modern technologies of electronics and photography, the dominant trends in the development of high-precision small caliber ammunition with multi-mode GOS, which include, in particular, include:

universalization and versatility of combat use of weapons equipped with similar GOS and combined guidance systems, due to the expansion of their capabilities;

modular principle of construction and unification of structural and circuit solutions at all levels (functional, hardware, structural and technological and elemental), which allow to reduce the cost of individual models of high-precision aircraft weapons for their mass production.

unification of system elements (missiles, containers, launchers, simulation and auxiliary equipment) for different types of weapons;

modular principle of construction with the use of proven cheap design and circuit solutions, high reliability and low technical risk of possible modernization.

Adopting the new generation of high-precision weapons discussed above can seriously change the balance of power on the battlefield. The fact is that most modern military air defense systems, which are supposed to protect military formations and point targets deployed on the battlefield, have a firing range of about 10 km. A combat helicopter of the AN-64 "Apache" type, equipped with a JAGM missile launcher, can quite safely fire at air defense systems and objects, while also taking advantage of the terrain and folds of the terrain thanks to the principle of "fire and forget", that is, it came out from behind cover, fired rockets and hid again. In addition, a rather long drop range (up to 100 km) and extremely small radar and infrared signatures of the UAB GBU-53 / B allow covert attacks on modern long and medium-range air defense systems, as well as any military air defense systems. To counter such weapons requires the joint and coordinated use of various air defense and electronic warfare systems capable of effectively suppressing both two-way communication channels and their multi-mode seeker in various ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum.