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Operations in a GPS-denied environment, particularly in the precision guided weapons context, is a problem many countries are now turning their minds to, but for the Israeli Air Force it is a fact of everyday life.
Vice president of business development, Marketing & Strategy, Rafael Air and C4ISR Division Gideon Weiss ex- plains the company’s SPICE (Smart Precision-Impact and Cost-Effective) family has been designed from the outset with passive electro-optic scene-matching technology to operate in GPS denied or spoofed environments, at stand-off ranges of between 60 and 100km and with a CEP of three metres.
The first weapon was the Spice 2000 which entered ser- vice with the IAF in 2003 and essentially a guidance kit which can be fitted to any existing 2,000lb bomb. It has a fixed-wing configuration and offers a range of around 60km. The Spice 1000 features a deployable wing kit that can be fitted to existing 1,000lb weapons, providing a stand-off range up to 100km. This latter weapon entered IAF service in 2017 and both versions have been exported to foreign customers.
The newest family member is the Spice 250 which is a 250lb weapon that has deployable wings and a 100km range, but is a bespoke, net-enabled weapon, four of which can be carried externally on each dedicated Smart Quad Rack (SQR). The system is based on an Electro-Optical seeker and modes include Automatic Target Acquisition, Moving Target Detection, Automatic Target Recognition and Maritime Attack.
“Spice 250 is the first precision strike weapon to use ar- tificial intelligence, which provides autonomous scene rec- ognition. It uses a software defined radio capability called BNET, which incorporates a two-way data link that allows multiple weapons to form an ad-hoc network during flight,” Weiss explained to ADM.
“If you drop all weapons at once, up to 16 on an F-16 for example, you can create a multiple simultaneous attack and you can direct them to attack from different directions.”
Spice 250 is now in full-rate production and under- going operational evaluation with the IAF and Rafael
“SEVERAL WEAPONS IN THE ADF’S INVENTORY WILL REACH THE END OF THEIR USEFUL LIVES IN COMING YEARS AND THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDUSTRY TO BID FOR THESE REPLACEMENT PROGRAMS IN THE FUTURE.”
considers the weapon to be an ideal match against cer- tain Air 3023 requirements.
RAYTHEON
Raytheon Missiles and Defence is now in the latest phase of integrating the JSOW C-1 MMT capability with the US Navy F-35C and RAAF F-35A and it is expected to achieve Initial Operational Capability in the 2023 timeframe and is already integrated with USN and RAAF Super Hornets.
The Australian Government has also requested the pos- sible sale of up to 3,900 GBU-53B Stormbreaker weapons, which is a network-enabled 250lb class weapon capable of engaging either stationary or moving targets in all weather conditions. The weapon is expected to be available for all F-35 variants by 2023.
“Stormbreaker supports and complements the ongoing sale of the F-35A to the RAAF,” a Raytheon spokesperson said in response to questions from ADM. “This capability will strengthen combined operations, particularly air to ground strike missions in all weather conditions and in- crease interoperability between the US and the RAAF.”
Looking to the future, Raytheon is in the early stages of developing the Peregrine AAM, which is lightweight weapon designed to combine the range and autonomous search capa- bility of AMRAAM with the manoeuvrability of AIM-9X. The company says the missile will “more than double” the number of weapons able to be carried without sacrificing air to air range. ■
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