US Special Operations Command: We need mini cruise missiles with a range of several hundred miles

A report from the Small Business Innovation Research Program of the United States Special Operations Command noted:

We need mini cruise missiles with a range of several hundred miles. Such weapon should be used in various military areas, including used with small launchers

More specifically, the Special Operations Command announces its intention to develop cruise missiles of a relatively small size, capable of covering 200 to 400 nautical miles. Such weapons would make it possible to strike targets, for example, from an armed AC-130J Ghostrider transport aircraft, while remaining out of the reach of enemy air defense systems.

The Special Operations Command is especially interested in those designs whose warhead payload is designed for a weight of up to 82 kg.

The US military also requires that the missile guidance system be electro-optical or infrared, but it is noted that if other more optimal options are proposed, then they can be considered.

In addition, the missile must be equipped with sensors to connect to the information channel to provide situational awareness so that it can track its flight path.

Although the exact size is not specified, it is already known that such ammunition should fit the size of a standard launcher. This unit is designed to store and launch small charges and launch drones (approximately 80 cm long and 17 cm wide). Similar launchers are mounted on fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters.

The current proposal in the form of a Spear 3 mini-cruise missile does not correspond to the command's flight range request.

The current drones are not suitable for launching the weapons we need

- explains the Command of Special Operations.

Jonathan Schroeden, director of the Special Operations Program at the Center for Naval Analysis think tank, did not comment on the details of the ongoing developments.

The reason for the creation of the rocket was the depletion of its rocket arsenal over the years, so to speak, of relentless operations. Now you need to restore and update it.

Comments

[Pensive Lawyer]

That is, a high flight range + efficiency (not an empty blank to throw) and all this with a low weight.
Does it seem to me or are these slightly mutually exclusive conditions?

[Roma 1977]

Considering that modern gliding bombs have already crossed the 100 km radius of action, then why the same gliding bomb, but only with an engine, launched from an air carrier, will not fly 200-300 km?

[Shurik70]

82 kg - is it "mini"?
Damn, and Hollywood has them the size of a pencil, only thicker.
And the T-72 tank is knocked out.

[OgnennyiKotik]

Dimensions: approx. 80 cm long and 17 cm wide
Range: 200 to 400 nautical miles (370-740 km)
Warhead payload: up to 82 kg

These are some unrealistic parameters. They obviously need to cut back the sturgeon. Or the data in the article is incorrect. This turns out to be a rocket heavier and smaller than the Hellfire, flying tens of times farther.

[alch3mist]

This turns out to be a rocket heavier and smaller than the Hellfire, flying tens of times farther.

For a penny a canary
And so that she sang in bass ...

[APASUS]

Quote: Pensive Lawyer

That is, a high flight range + efficiency (not an empty blank to throw) and all this with a low weight.

You can consider the issue in a different vein. If the fuel and explosives will be performed by one substance, for example. Destruction of the target can be carried out by an explosion and kinetic impact at long distances.
But the range of 130 km is not enough for the Spear 3? Well, their requirements

[TermNachTer]

130 km and 200 nautical miles are not the same thing.

[APASUS]

Quote: TermNachTER

130 km and 200 nautical miles are not the same thing.

You're just a genius!

[TermNachTer]

Have you doubted?))) I'm just very modest)))

[URAL72]

I also thought about using fuel as an explosive of the warhead. He also remembered the Petrel. Can't a nuclear engine be used as a warhead - to destroy the targets characteristic of this missile?

[out of habit]

So a nuclear engine is not a land mine. You can only dirtiest everything around.

[credo]

Quote: Pensive Lawyer

That is, a high flight range + efficiency (not an empty blank to throw) and all this with a low weight.
Does it seem to me or are these slightly mutually exclusive conditions?

Everything is going along the way, since the American military-industrial complex needs a lot of money and always, regardless of whether the project succeeds or not, the main thing is the novelty of the idea is empty, even if it seems absurd.

[TermNachTer]

In the command of mattress SSO, physics is not taught even in the volume of high school))) this is normal, a friend from Wisconsin said that blacks came out of the public school who could not write or read))) just count so that the store does not cheat ...

[Alex777]

How much should the rocket they "need" cost?
When they find out the price, they will understand that it is not needed at all.

[TermNachTer]

The warriors may not need it, but "Lockheed" - even very much))) the adventure with the F - 35 ends, we need to look for a new way to cut the budget))

[Alex777]

I do not think. The freebie will not cheat.
Lockheed will do what they say.

[TermNachTer]

Lockheed has already bought everyone "with giblets" in the Washington Reich Chancellery and if they want, I will sell even pink elephants to the Pentagon))) extreme urgency and necessity for the Armed Forces, lobbyists will justify 1000%)))

[prior]

"We need mini cruise missiles with a range of several hundred miles. "

In order to shit, the Americans have everything in abundance, but they do not have enough mini-missiles, it turns out.

[Egoza]

Quote: prior

In order to shit, the Americans have everything in abundance, but they do not have enough mini-missiles, it turns out.

I beg of you! In short: Give money for this, this, then we will polish with this. And what do you think? Impressed by the panic evacuation and natural flight of the "US troops", they will still give them money. To protect yourself from the terrible Russians! )))

[Ros 56]

This is where all the heroism of the striped ones lies, snapped surreptitiously and vtik, as the Ukrainians say.

[Alexey Stepanov]

This is where all the heroism of the striped ones lies, snapped surreptitiously and vtik, as the Ukrainians say.

I will probably greatly surprise you, but the times of fair knightly battles have long since sunk into oblivion.
And any modern normal tactics is based primarily on the destruction of the enemy with minimal risk to their forces. Respectfully

[Ros 56]

Absolutely not surprised. I wrote this to the fact that it is better for the striped ones to shut up and not say how strong and invincible they are. They say about such - a good man against the sheep, and against a good man the sheep himself.

[Wolf]

The mini rackets are in the right direction, given the massive use of UAVs on the battlefield. The time for rolling large surfaces with uncontrolled missiles is gone, no one will allow themselves the mistake that there would be a concentration of an army in a large number in a small space.
In urban combat conditions, the type of Solntsepek (TOS) will be used so that Chris gets in the basements.
Zpr. container with mini missiles for MI 8 with a radius of 400 km, and one UAV combination, etc.
Amerikosi are not a lot stupid and sometimes they can.

[URAL72]

no one will allow himself the mistake that the concentration of the army in a large number in a small space would be "

What about troop columns and rear service columns? There are also large objects in the rear - airfields, headquarters, warehouses, repair companies and industrial facilities. With a weak air defense, NURSs will still come in handy, although there are developments in Russia for installing on them and free-falling bombs, seeker and tail. And the NURS strike on the infantry scattered in attack or defense is better than shooting everyone with high-precision ammunition.

[ankir13]

That is, ter ... uh, cowboy, world number 1, wants a small, but sooo far flying bullet, so that from around the corner it can be shot at someone, kill him, and, according to the laws of an advanced democracy, quickly spit it out, while in response, they did not heap ... Well, for the purpose of democratization, nothing personal, no offense ...

[Tagan]

... Is this my order?
Vartan cried out in their hearts.
When you cut my caps,
You must have been drunk?

What to do with me now?
Where do you order to put it?
After all, none of them can not
Put on your head!

- But you yourself wanted it!
The furrier said in response.
Big seven sheep hats
Do not find any way!

[AC130 Gunship]

He said what lnie would ideally want. Manufacturers will think and give an answer. The Pentagon is big, but this structure is small. Only for them, no one will definitely develop a rocket, otherwise it will become golden. Usually, hectares of weapons consist of 20-30 AC130 aircraft deployed around the world

[A. Privalov]

The current proposal in the form of a Spear 3 mini-cruise missile does not correspond to the command's flight range request.

The device is not universal, but Spear 3 was the answer to a completely different request and in all respects it is quite consistent with the assigned then to her tasks.

There will be a different request, with different requirements, the enterprises of the military-industrial complex will give an answer to it. This will take some time, although maybe someone already has something suitable in the storeroom.

[Max PV]

No, well, in general, you can fit into 82kg, with a range of 370-750 km, you can. To supply a centrifugal aircraft-model turbojet engine with a thrust of about 15 kgf, which, with a fuel consumption of 1,8-2 kg / kgf per hour, will allow reaching a range of 370 km with a 20-30 liter tank, and carrying a warhead of 15-25 kg. But to fit into the dimensions of 800x170mm is absolutely unrealistic. A cylinder of this size has a volume of only 18,16 liters. It is unrealistic to have such a specific mass of ammunition (higher than that of HE shells), especially given the traditional low density of missile weapons for the Americans, due to the traditions of joint design of various parts of the missile by different firms.

[Mikhail3]

We'll have to fit in) Otherwise, how? All these despicable infantrymen will launch the rocket themselves, right from the location, so what ?! No special operations! No medals! No dough !! And so the special operators on special humps brought a special to the tambourine, and how they fired it from there! Wow!

[out of habit]

82kg is the warhead's payload, not the entire rocket. More attentively.

[Maks1995]

All is true in general.
Everyone needs such rockets.

And what will turn out in the end - a slow rocket, or an economical one, or they will lower the TK, it will be seen.)))

[Mikhail3]

The range should be such that the performers and their immediate superior, of course, will be credited with this very special operation. We heroically landed three or four hundred kilometers from the enemy, and fired! Now take us home !! Heroic helicopters heroically take off, and heroes fly back, to receive awards and money. Warriors ...

[sen]

More specifically, the Special Operations Command announces its intention to develop cruise missiles of a relatively small size, capable of covering 200 to 400 nautical miles. Such weapons would make it possible to strike targets, for example, from an armed AC-130J Ghostrider transport aircraft, while remaining out of the reach of enemy air defense systems.
The Special Operations Command is especially interested in those designs whose warhead payload is designed for a weight of up to 82 kg.

For such a cruise missile, with such characteristics, it is necessary to develop a special small turbojet engine. It will be expensive even for the United States. And it is necessary to significantly increase the dimensions of the rocket - the characteristics are unrealistic.

[Maikcg]

US Special Operations Command: We need HYPERSONIC mini-cruise missiles with a range of several hundred miles.

[Oleg Olkha]

A link to the original source, as expected. From the article it turns out gibberish, the author does not see?

[Reserve buildbat]

And I need a 7,62 caliber machine gun with an aiming range of several tens of kilometers)))
By the way, "the payload of the warhead is designed to weigh up to 82 kg" - is this based on the weight of the skinny Marines?