Document Title : Feasibility of Third World Advanced
Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat.Volume 2: Emerging Cruise Missile
Threat
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AD Number: ADA377356
Subject Categories: GUIDED MISSILES
Corporate Author: NATIONAL DEFENSE
INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATIONARLINGTON VA
Title: Feasibility of Third World
Advanced Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat. Volume 2: Emerging Cruise
Missile Threat
Descriptive Note: Technical study 1999-2000
Personal Authors: Woodside, Robert E.; McIver, John; Gadler, Daniel; Beyar,
James; Howe, James
Report Date: 22 JUN 2000
Pages: 49 PAGES
Monitor
Acronym: XB
Monitor Series: NAVSEA
Supplementary Note: Presented at MORS
Symposium (68th), Working Group 4: Air and Missile Defense, TMD threat,
22 Jun 2000. See also AD-A377 354.
Descriptors: *CRUISE MISSILES, *THREAT
EVALUATION, DEVELOPING NATIONS, PAYLOAD, MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN), ANTISHIP
MISSILES, GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM, INERTIAL NAVIGATION, JET PROPULSION,
STEALTH TECHNOLOGY, MIDCOURSE GUIDANCE, TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT.
Identifiers:
LACM(LAND ATTACK CRUISE MISSILES)
Abstract: "The Emerging Cruise
Missile Threat", study recently released by the National Defense
industrial Association (NDIA) Strike, Land Attack & Air Defense Committee
shows how the possibility of long range cruise missile attack by Third
World countries is developing rapidly into a serious threat for U.S. interests.
Current technology enables the Third World to field a large number of low-cost
land-attack cruise missiles that can overwhelm capable defenses. Sophisticated
land-attack cruise missiles can be constructed or modified from technologies or
components currently available worldwide. The study Is Volume 2 of an industry
series on the Feasibility of Third World Advanced Ballistic and Cruise
Missile Threat. Volume 1, "The Long-Range Ballistic Missile
Threat", was presented at the 67th MORSS at West Point In June 1999.
Technologies exploited in cruise missilery include GPS/INS (Global Positioning
System/Inertial Navigation System) , compact avionics, flight programming
software, stealth and powerful, lightweight jet propulsion systems. "The
Emerging Cruise Missile Threat" focuses on the technical feasibility of
production methods likely to be used by Third World countries to improve their
cruise missile capability. Working exclusively from unclassified sources,
the study reviews the lessons learned from historical cruise missile
development programs. It assesses potential cruise missile improvements
available to Third World countries. It evaluates possible alternatives to
land-attack cruise missiles. It analyzes recent trends in Third World asymmetric
threats. And it provides a comprehensive global cruise missile inventory,
Identifying more than 80,000 cruise missiles worldwide.
Limitation Code:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Source Code: 433823
Citation Creation Date:
31 MAY 2000