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Rocket Artillery in Future Scenarios, First Answer

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42nd Annual Armament Systems: Gun and Missile Systems Conference Ing. grad. Harald Wich Diehl BGT Defence Head of Product Management Artillery Rocket Systems [email protected]

Who we Are

The Past

The Future

Options

A Solution - Concept - Benefits - Performance - Programme Timeline

¡ Summary/Conclusions

System MLRS\NDIA\NDIA 2007.ppt April 2007 2 Copyright Diehl VA Systeme Stiftung & Co. KG Who we Are in a nutshell

¡ Diehl BGT Defence is a System House and Technology Company in the Areas of Defence and Security 1630 Employees $550 m Sales Member of the privately owned Diehl Group

¡ Historically a direct Fire Company started “Indirect Fire” Activities ¢ - 1982 Development Sensor Fuzed Munitions SMArt® 155 developed and manufactured under GIWS JV with Rheinmetall - 1983 Demonstration of First guided Mortar Round “Bussard” - 1983 MLRS Final Integrator for Rockets and RPC´s - 1985 Studies and Demonstrators on Guided 155 mm

- 1997 First guided MLRS Flight “NAW” - 2005 Development of GMLRS-SMArt

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System MLRS\NDIA\NDIA 2007.ppt April 2007 4 Copyright Diehl VA Systeme Stiftung & Co. KG The Future

DPICM Artillery Fragments (all around) NBC

RPGs (Front Sector)

Medium Calibre Machine-gun (Front Sector)

Heavy Machine-gun (all around) Anti Tank Mine Directed Anti Under Wheel and Personnel Mine under Hull

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? e (Dual Purpose Improved Conventionlaiel vMunition) DPICM, be

¢ e s w - small Fragments d a Anti Personnel/(Material) o¢ o s g shaped Charge ill a Anti Armor/Material t st Is i

l ! Unitary, (a single HE filled Effector in a Ctaicrarier) cri ¢ ion - Fragments iss ! Anti Personnel/Material

M ¢ is TLE Penetrator ion es Anti Infrastructure cis lud Pre Inc

SFM, (Sensor Fuzed Munition) - Designed to fight hard and semi-hard Targets

SFM´s are perfect to fight all protected Targets !

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GMLRS M30 Rocket SMArt® DM 702

4 SMArt® Sub-Munitions

No Payload

G-SMArt Rocket

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Characteristics - Tri mode - passive Infrared (IR) - passive 94 GHz Millimetre Wave (Radiometer) - active 94 GHz Millimetre Wave (Radar) - High sophisticated Sensor Fusion - High Performance Tantalum Liner Warhead - IR/mmW Sensor, bore sighted with Warhead (apart from small lead angle) - Single (first) pass Detection and Warhead Initiation - Redundant built-in Self-Destruct Function - Altitude (Slant Range) commanded through Radar Channel - Battery burn-out initiates Self-Destruct

More than 20,000 SMArt® Sub-Munitions produced up to now !

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Target Search during stable Descent - Starting Height 150 m AGL £ very short Detection Range (SLR) ¤ immune to adverse Weather - Very large Scan Area enclosed ≤ 35,000 m2 ¤ high Probability of Target in Footprint - Top Attack … ¤ most vulnerable Area on Target … at low Speed Sub-Munition Descent ¤ immune to DAS … and very high Speed SFF Attack ¤ immune to ERA and other Type of Protection

SMArt`s Sensors are simple and the kill Mechanism is very robust !

System MLRS\NDIA\NDIA 2007.ppt April 2007 9 Copyright Diehl VA Systeme Stiftung & Co. KG SMArt Adaptation to GMLRS

Change Spin released Battery Activation to Rocket Control Change Spin opened Ballute to high Speed Drag Chute

Change Acceleration Environmental Criteria of S&A to Rocket No Change on Sub-Munition Descent, Search ESAD Control and Detect and Self Forging Fragment Function

Minor Modifications only to SMArt Sub-Munition !

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t0 – x: - Payload Activation

GMLRS Rocket t0: Warhead Event down Sub-Munition 4 Sub-Munitions ejected Drag Chute Opening Time = T1 - ∆T - at the same Time - into 4 Quadrants

up Sub-Munition Drag-Chute Opening Time = T1 + ∆T Free Flight programmable Drag Chute fixed Spin Chute until detect or Selfdestruct left/right Sub-Munitions Drag-Chute Opening Time = T1

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Free Flight, Drag Chute Flight and Spin Chute Flight, some Hit Examples

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00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14

SMArt® 155 (Anti Tank) continuing production

- Insensitive HE production

G-SMArt Adaptation development

G-SMArt Serial Production full rate production

- Insensitive RM FRP

- Increased Range FRP

SMArt® Anti Material demo production??

- Multi Mode demo development production

Leveraging form both GMLRS and SMArt® Improvements G-SMArt will always be up-to-date

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Command Posts

Air Defence Systems

Mechanized Infantry Artillery s t e k c o R

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MBT APC SPG ADA Point Area MRL ADU SMArt DPICM UNITARY

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¡ Quick Solution based on “In Production” SMArt® and GMLRS

¥ low Cost/low Risk

¡ Effective against hard, semi-hard and protected Targets

¥ robust to passive Protection and reactive Armor

¥ robust to DAS Countermeasures

¡ Wide Attack Footprint 100

80 s ¡ r e

Close Combat Capability t e 60 m o l i ¡

K Baseline G-SMArt can hit 40 Minimal Collateral Damage any Target in this Area from one Launcher Position 20 ¡ Clean battlefield operation due to redundant self-destruct 0 -100 -80 -60 -40 -20 0 20 40 60 80 100 Kilometers

Safety Range G-SMArt will take care of all future needs attacking pr50o0 t–e10c0t0e md Targets !

System MLRS\NDIA\NDIA 2007.ppt April 2007 15 Copyright Diehl VA Systeme Stiftung & Co. KG Lance Corporal K lö b k e i s cu rrent ly ou r Thank you for your Attention! only operat i onal R ock et Lau nch er Colonel !

Any Questions?

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