Internationale gunship ontwikkelingen

Gestart door andré herc, 20/02/2011 | 23:13 uur

StrataNL

Citaat van: Thomasen op 03/12/2015 | 13:48 uur
Zouden we die ook op de NH90 kunnen klussen?

Niet de lasergeleide variant aangezien de Nederlandse NH90 niet over een laser designator beschikt. De Omaanse NH90 zou dit wel kunnen. Kwestie van duurder gimballetje in de neus. Integratie van rocket of cannon pods moet te doen zijn denk ik.
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Sparkplug

Citaat van: Thomasen op 03/12/2015 | 13:48 uur
Zouden we die ook op de NH90 kunnen klussen?
Het zou wel wat hebben als een rocket pod met deze aan de twee externe ophangpunten van de NH90 kan worden opgehangen en worden gebruikt. De MH-60R (ASW/ASuW) en MH-60S (transport) gebruiken ook de APKWS.
A fighter without a gun . . . is like an airplane without a wing.

-- Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.

JdL

Citaat van: Thomasen op 03/12/2015 | 13:48 uur
Zouden we die ook op de NH90 kunnen klussen?
Als interim amfibische aanvalsheli?
Zou wel handig zijn
Hangt er wel van af of het vliegbereik en de payload voldoende zijn voor operationele omstandigheden
'The goal is world peace, and to do so you must have strength' Ronald Reagan

dudge

Zouden we die ook op de NH90 kunnen klussen?

Elzenga

Vind het een goede zaak...lijkt me een zeer nuttige uitbreiding van de capaciteiten van dit raketsysteem.

StrataNL

Citaat van: Harald op 02/12/2015 | 10:21 uur
Wat lees ik hier nu ? .... Nederland zou dit gekocht of willen kopen ? .. voor onder de Apache's

Zat al een tijdje in de pijplijn volgens mij hoor. Hoort bij het project verbetering bewapening apache.
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Citaat van: Ace1 op 02/12/2015 | 12:23 uur
Heeft Jordanie de APKWS alleen voor de 2 AC-235 gunships gekocht of ook voor de Bell AH-1 Cobra's?
Jordanië koopt ze nu voor hun AC-235 gunships. De APKWS is nog niet vrijgegeven voor de Jordaanse AH-1F Cobra, als dit al technisch mogelijk is. De AH-1W SuperCobra en AH-1Z Viper kunnen deze wel afvuren.
A fighter without a gun . . . is like an airplane without a wing.

-- Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.

Ace1

Heeft Jordanie de APKWS alleen voor de 2 AC-235 gunships gekocht of ook voor de Bell AH-1 Cobra's?

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Citaat van: Harald op 02/12/2015 | 10:21 uur
Jordan is the first nation to receive external link shipments of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APKWS). 110 units of the system were requested by the Jordanian government back in 2014 and will be equipped external link on CN-235 gunships allowing for greater flexibility and precision engagement. The US has received 13 requests for the system to be sold and buyers will include Iraq, the Netherlands and Tunisia.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/

Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APKWS).
http://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/apkws-laser-guided-rocket

Wat lees ik hier nu ? .... Nederland zou dit gekocht of willen kopen ? .. voor onder de Apache's
Het is wel een logische keuze als ze worden aangekocht, omdat de APKWS o.i.d. een stuk goedkoper is dan de AGM-114 Hellfire.

Ze kunnen eventueel ook onder de F-16 worden gehangen.
A fighter without a gun . . . is like an airplane without a wing.

-- Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.

Harald

Jordan is the first nation to receive external link shipments of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APKWS). 110 units of the system were requested by the Jordanian government back in 2014 and will be equipped external link on CN-235 gunships allowing for greater flexibility and precision engagement. The US has received 13 requests for the system to be sold and buyers will include Iraq, the Netherlands and Tunisia. Since the deployment of the system on the US Navy's MH-60 Seahawk and Marine Corps UH/AH-1 light attack helicopters in 2007, APKWS has been fired more than 100 times, boasting a success rate of 94%.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/

Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APKWS).
http://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/apkws-laser-guided-rocket

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Precision_Kill_Weapon_System

Wat lees ik hier nu ? .... Nederland zou dit gekocht of willen kopen ? .. voor onder de Apache's

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Ghostrider gunship scrapped after inverted flight scare

By Craig Hoyle, London | 17 November 2015

The US Air Force had to scrap one of its brand-new Lockheed Martin AC-130J Ghostrider gunships following a training mishap earlier this year, the service has revealed.

In an Accident Investigation Board report released earlier this month, the Air Force Materiel Command says the adapted Hercules received damage estimated at more than $115 million after a flight-test crew lost control.

Conducted by 413th Flight Test Squadron personnel from Eglin AFB in Florida over the Gulf of Mexico on 21 April, the sortie involved what the USAF describes as an assessment of the AC-130J's "medium-risk flying qualities".

While being operated at roughly 15,000ft, "the aircraft exceeded the targeted angle of sideslip until it departed controlled flight," the report states. It "momentarily inverted, before being recovered after losing approximately 5,000ft of altitude." The aircraft's crew – who escaped injury – returned to base and landed safely, but the Ghostrider was rendered a total loss, having exceeded its operating g limits and design load.


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Investigators have attributed the incident to the pilot's "excessive rudder input during the test point, followed by inadequate rudder input to initiate a timely recovery from high angle of sideslip due to over-controlled/under-controlled aircraft," along with the "wrong choice of action during an operation."

Contributing factors included: instrumentation and warning system issues; spatial disorientation; confusion; and inadequate provision of procedural guidance or publications to the team; the report states.

The US Air Force Special Operations Command received its first AC-130J at Hurlburt Field AFB in Florida in July 2015, to support testing. Once in frontline use, the type will be equipped with weapons including a 30mm cannon, 105mm cannon and a variety of precision-guided air-to-surface munitions. The service plans to have an operational fleet of 32 of the type by fiscal year 2021, with initial capability slated for FY2017.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/ghostrider-gunship-scrapped-after-inverted-flight-sc-419208/
A fighter without a gun . . . is like an airplane without a wing.

-- Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.

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AFSOC developing tactics for '2020' AC-130 gunship laser weapon

By James Drew, Washington DC | 17 September 2015

The head of US Air Force Special Operations Command has issued a "JFK challenge" to the defence industry to install a high-power electric laser on an AC-130 gunship by the end of the decade.

Lt Gen Bradley Heithold says just as US president John F Kennedy wanted to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, he wants a laser-armed gunship by 2020. The commander issued the challenge at AFA's Air & Space Conference in Washington this week.

He wants the system to weigh less than 2,268kg (5,000lbs) and occupy a space no greater than one gun position on the latest AC-130J "Ghostrider" gunship.

The general first announced his pursuit of a laser gunship in February, but his comments this week provide the first solid time frame for development and fielding.

Heithold says his command is already developing concepts of operation as well as "tactics, techniques and procedures" for how to employ an airborne laser weapon in combat. AFSOC has also prepared a "capabilities development document" that lays out the necessary key performance parameters.

"You have to have a wheelbarrow full of paperwork before you get a wheelbarrow full of money," according to Heithold. "Nobody's going to give you money unless you have fleshed out what you want this to look like and what's the overall cost of the system."

The intent is to create a laser powerful enough to knock out missiles defensively, but also to "burn a beer-can sized hole" in a vehicle.

That level of power has been demonstrated many times with ground-based weapons, but a much higher level of sophistication is needed to achieve the same results from the air.

One AC-130W Stinger II gunship has been spared from retirement to support development and testing, the general says.

"To me, the hard part will be directing the beam. We can create a laser," he says. "If you're shooting a laser from the ground you're in a stable situation, but now you've got to put it in an aircraft."

AFSOC's pursuit of laser weapon technology coincides with an increase in US Special Operations Forces spending on science and technology. US Special Operations Command traditionally spends about 3% of its $10 billion annual budget on S&T, but that portion is being boosted to 5%.

In an odd twist, AFSOC has no plans to zap humans with the laser since that would go against several long-standing international treaties, like the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons.

Instead, the special forces community wants to disable incoming missiles and silently burn holes in solid targets like communications towers, boats, cars and aircraft.


The Advanced Tactical Laser was a previous attempt to employ a 100kW chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) from an AC-130 gunship. The emphasis has since shifted to electric lasers due to their reduced size, weight and power requirements.

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https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/afsoc-developing-tactics-for-2020-ac-130-gunship-l-416878/
A fighter without a gun . . . is like an airplane without a wing.

-- Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.

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AFSOC seeks expendable, small UAV as AC-130 gunship sensor

By James Drew, Washington DC | 17 September 2015

US Air Force Special Operations Command wants an expendable, tube-launched small unmanned aerial vehicle for its AC-130 "battleplane" for peering beneath cloud cover to direct gunfire and precision-guided munitions.

The special forces organisation, which employs a large fleet of manned gunships equipped with 30mm and 105mm cannons, is pursuing the so-called Tactical Off-board Sensor as a way of "taking the cover of weather away from the enemy".

AFSOC commander Lt Gen Bradley Heithold says the tube-launched UAV could be dropped from the back of the Lockheed Martin C-130-based gunship and orbit below the clouds. The sensor gimbal is controlled remotely from the AC-130, allowing crews to feed imagery and target coordinates into the on-board fire control system.

"Today, in many cases, we're giving the cover of weather to the enemy," Heithhold said at an AFA Air & Space Conference in Washington this week.

"The enemy is manoeuvring and massing against an objective often times because of the cover of weather, and we need to take that away."

AFSOC has initiated one quick concept-demonstrator programme using a Raytheon-Sensintel Coyote UAV and another standard 18- to 24-month acquisition project aimed at surveying industry and procure the best long-term solution. Heithhold wants an expendable device that can operate for 1h or more.


The L-3 Communications "Stiletto" expeditionary small UAV is tube-launched and has a 10nm radio control range.

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The Coyote was recently used by the Office of Naval Research to demonstrate UAV swarming and has been used in many other experiments.

L-3 Communications has a similar tube-launched UAV called Stiletto, which was on display at the conference. Stiletto weighs 12kg (28lbs) and has an endurance of more than 30min.

Off-board sensor technology is not new. The Air Force Research Laboratory has been exploring different devices for several years, but there needs to be a user like AFSOC for it to become a programme of record.

AC-130 gunships generally operate from 25,000ft to 28,000ft, proving "danger-close" air support to ground troops and special forces units. They carry a variety of smart weapons, including the Boeing Small Diameter Bomb and Raytheon Griffin missile.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/afsoc-seeks-expendable-small-uav-as-ac-130-gunship-416875/
A fighter without a gun . . . is like an airplane without a wing.

-- Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.

Harald

USAF ready to field lasers on AC-130Ws by 2020




The U.S. Air Force is on course to field a podded, tactical laser on the AC-130W by 2020, and eventually the fighter community will get a laser weapon as well.

Speaking at the Air Force Association Air and Space Conference, Air Force Special Operational Command (AFSOC) chief, Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, said the laser will generate power greater than 120kw and is meant for destroying ground targets, not humans.

When technology matures enough to reduce the size, weight and power sensitivity of the weapon, it will used by fighters to take out surface-to-air defense, said ACC chief Gen. Herbert Carlisle.

http://alert5.com/2015/09/17/usaf-ready-to-field-lasers-on-ac-130ws-by-2020/

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New generation gunship arrives at Hurlburt

Pensacola News Journal | July 29, 2015

The first Air Force Special Operations Command AC-130J gunship made a historic entrance aboard Hurlburt Field on Wednesday — complete with a flyover and taxi underneath a fire truck water arch.

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Zie onderstaande link voor het complete artikel.

http://www.pnj.com/story/news/military/2015/07/29/new-generation-gunship-arrives-hurlburt-field/30826905/
A fighter without a gun . . . is like an airplane without a wing.

-- Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.