Abstract 106 Thoughts The Brigadier General Chief of Air Defence Command (MAAA) analyses the present and future of Air Defence Artillery. Training and use Field Artillery use in AFGHANISTAN This article intends to analyze the use of Field Artillery (“ARTI-LLERY” from now on) in the ISAF operation (Afghanistan), as for the materiel and deployments used. Thus, we have tried to avoid addressing some other important aspects for Fire Support like Command and Control (C2), Targeting (TGT), or Target Acquisi-tion (TA). Although our Artillery did not take part in this opera-tion, other countries like the USA, the UK, GE, FRA, CAN did, so we can have some lessons learned from their experience. Accurate target location In this article we analyze Field Artillery problems to work in an urban battlefield and the need of accurate fire missions. Accu-racy must be achieved in the whole process, including the tar-get acquisition. We also present a general view of the available weapon systems, and NATO working group “SG-201” suggestions to improve the effectiveness of the fire missions which use grid coordinates seeker ammunitions with GPS guidance. ERESMA PROJECT Military operations are presently being carried out in very com-plex scenarios, large and discontinuous battlefields, where it may be necessary to consider the use of fire supports at very low le-vels. Units must work with a countless number of varied targets. These environments make it very difficult for those in charge of fire support management to carry out their tasks, as it has been proven they are not enough to meet units’ requirements. Particu-larly, Forward Observers, as the ones in charge of transmitting fire support requirements for combat units, are overwhelmed and incapable of assuming the number of Calls for Fire made by their supported units, in scenarios like the ones mentioned before. Even in classic operations with continuous and reduced fronts, it is absolutely impossible to provide all the specific observation elements required to complete the fire support system. AUTOMATIC DEPENDENT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (ADS) As air traffic is increasing over the years, it has become increa-singly evident that we need to have an air control system, capable of giving a wider coverage and a more dynamical control between ground and aircraft. The use of conventional radars in aviation implies quite signifi-cant limitations regarding range and resolution. Besides, current security procedures require high location accuracy and high in-formation refresh. If we add adverse weather conditions, low co-verage in low altitudes, and the high cost of equipment mainte-nance to this equation, the disadvantages of a system, which has undergone hardly any changes since the 50,s, are demonstrated.
MEMORIAL ARTILLERIA JUNIO 2017
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