Joint Fire Coordination Challenges in Optimizing Employment of Advanced NSFS Weapons

摘要

Joint Vision 2020 and the operational concepts of STOM and deep operations demonstrate the necessity for development of weapon systems to support combat operations over the entire depth of the battlespace. In support of these requirements, the Navy has undertaken the development advanced NSFS weapons that will be capable of providing a sustainable high volume rate of long range, precision fires in all weather conditions. Optimizing the employment of the advanced NSFS combat power will enable the operational commander to maximize economy of force and principle of mass. The challenge to optimizing the employment of advanced NSFS combat power resides in establishing unity of effort for fires and airspace deconfliction throughout the battlespace. The failure of joint doctrine to adequately address three critical deconfliction issues; delineation of the boundary between close and deep operations, designation of the control authority for fires in deep operations and the use of Killboxes, has resulted in doctrinal differences that pose unnecessary challenges to fires deconfliction.