End of era of highness: how to retain the dominance in weapons

The United States handed over high-precision Excalibur artillery shells, GMLRS jet and JDAM-ER bombs. However, the Russian Federation has learned to blacken some of them. Precise weapons have been provided by the United States for the last 50 years a decisive advantage in the missions from the Storm in the desert to the war in Afghanistan. "One blow - one murder" was the expected use of weapons. However, the war in Ukraine changes it. About it reports Breaking Defense.

The United States handed over high-precision excalibur artillery shells, GMLRS jet, JDAM-ER bombs. In the beginning, they had a huge impact on the battlefield, but the Russian Federation learned to resist them. Remedies, layouts and other tricks allow the Russian Federation to make some weapons not so effective. Potentially questions for the US military, what to do when high -precision weapons loses dominance through counter -performance.

The Pentagon defines high -precision ammunition as a managed weapon to destroy a point target with the minimization of related damage. Studies have long been proposing the US to expand the definition, as the counteraction to geolocation is becoming wider. The fighting in Ukraine is a jump forward when compared to what was in Iraq or Serbia. EXCALIBUR efficiency is currently rated at 10%. Some ammunition is losing efficiency.

The US needs to either change the type of guidance or improve the available systems so that they cannot be silenced. Equally important is the training of fighters who should adapt to the battle. Alternative guidance systems: as a result, the authors believe that the Pentagon should improve the situation with highness, as this is the basis of their doctrine. Recall that on February 12 in Turkey launched the production of high -precision ammunition GMLRS.