Naval Fire Support Evolves

摘要

Naval fire in support of littoral and deeper in-land operations is registering a significant shift towards longer range and higher speed weapon systems among major navies. Confronting anti-access/area denial (A2/ AD) and advanced air defence systems operational scenarios, larger naval forces are working on higher speed anti-ship and deep strike weapon systems alongside unmanned platforms and autonomous or semi-autonomous weapon systems. Nevertheless, there are still requirements for more conventional solutions such as guided munitions and missiles together with affordable loitering weapon systems to cope with a wide range of missions, especially in more permissive scenarios and crisis situations and for naval forces which do not possess large budgets.