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Article: Planning strike missions: the US Air Force and Navy are updating mission-planning systems in order to use precision-guided weapons more effectively. (Operations).
- Article from:
- Journal of Electronic Defense
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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The revolutionary impact of precision-guided strike weapons on many aspects of the air-ground battle is readily apparent. The most visible aspects are in the results of strike missions, where targets are destroyed with fewer sorties, and ground units can call in close-support strikes from aircraft at standoff ranges. Behind the scenes, precision-guided weapons are changing the way missions are planned.
One significant difference in the use of precision-guided versus dumb ordnance is the greater array of release points that can be used with the former to hit a particular target. The number of targets that can be engaged from a particular release point is ...