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They're asking for a version of the Precision Airborne Standoff Directed Energy Weapon (PASDEW). Think of it as a precision long range blowtorch. Most likely to go into the AC-130 SPECTRE gunship when it's ready.
They're asking for a version of the Precision Airborne Standoff Directed Energy Weapon (PASDEW). Think of it as a precision long range blowtorch. Most likely to go into the AC-130 SPECTRE gunship when it's ready.
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(FOUO) Overview. MNF-W has an urgent operational need for a Precision Airborne Standoff Directed Energy Weapon (PASDEW). The PASDEW needs to be capable of engaging targets from a tactical airborne platform in the active low altitude air threat environment of the MNF-W Area of Responsibility (AOR). The non-kinetic DEW component of PASDEW needs to be capable of destructively engaging targets that have emplaced themselves on, near, or within protected structures such as religious shrines and hospitals. The PASDEW also needs to be capable of ultra-precise strike against adversaries operating in immediate proximity to innocents. Ultra-precision strike capabilities of PASDEW also apply to anti-material missions where a range of fixed and mobile ground targets are susceptible to its destructive effects while simultaneously avoiding or minimizing collateral damage. Finally, the PASDEW needs to be capable of engaging non-ballistic airborne threats that may come to threaten (Coalition Forces) CF in the MNF-W AOR and the Iraqi Theater of Operations (ITO) as emergent insurgent Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs). Specifically, these include Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-delivered munitions of the sort that recently appeared during Hezbollah’s confrontation with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
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(FOUO) Overview. MNF-W has an urgent operational need for a Precision Airborne Standoff Directed Energy Weapon (PASDEW). The PASDEW needs to be capable of engaging targets from a tactical airborne platform in the active low altitude air threat environment of the MNF-W Area of Responsibility (AOR). The non-kinetic DEW component of PASDEW needs to be capable of destructively engaging targets that have emplaced themselves on, near, or within protected structures such as religious shrines and hospitals. The PASDEW also needs to be capable of ultra-precise strike against adversaries operating in immediate proximity to innocents. Ultra-precision strike capabilities of PASDEW also apply to anti-material missions where a range of fixed and mobile ground targets are susceptible to its destructive effects while simultaneously avoiding or minimizing collateral damage. Finally, the PASDEW needs to be capable of engaging non-ballistic airborne threats that may come to threaten (Coalition Forces) CF in the MNF-W AOR and the Iraqi Theater of Operations (ITO) as emergent insurgent Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs). Specifically, these include Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-delivered munitions of the sort that recently appeared during Hezbollah’s confrontation with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
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