정찰기 미국육군 Artemis의 ConOps

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미국공군이 아니라 미국육군이 쓰는 Artemis의 Concept of Operation은

개발하고 있는 장거리 지대지 미사일로 전쟁 첫 날에 때릴 '전파를 내는 표적들'의 위치를 전쟁 터지기 직전까지 '평시'에 수집하는 것이라고 하네요.

일단 전쟁이 터진 다음에는 저 뒤로 도망가 있다가 적 전투기와 SAM이 다 죽으면 그 때 다시 앞으로 나오려고 하는 듯 합니다.

The days of Joint Stars aircraft operating directly in support of combat operations against a peer adversary have passed. The publicly released 155-km (96-mi.) range of the Joint Stars’ APY-7 radar falls within the 380-400-km engagement envelope of the 40N6 interceptor launched by Russia’s S-400 Triumph integrated air defense system.

But the Army still sees a peacetime role for a high-altitude intelligence-gathering fleet, leveraging new investments in long-range sensors to peer deep behind enemy lines and build a library of emitting targets, including radars and communication systems, for Dark Eagle and PRSM warheads to strike during the first days of a war.

1985년 미국 의회 자료에 나오는 PLSS와 비슷하네요.

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1985년의 J-STARS 컨셉트

Ukraine Ops Make Ideal Debut For U.S. Army's Artemis Demonstrator

Steve Trimble February 04, 2022 

A Challenger 600 carrying the U.S. Army’s SS-4000 payload has been flying surveillance missions across Eastern Europe since the Russian military buildup on the Ukrainian border began in November.

Credit: U.S. Army

A Russian military mobilization on Ukraine’s borders has served as a timely—albeit unforeseen—proving ground for an ongoing, high-altitude overhaul of the U.S. Army’s fleet of fixed-wing, intelligence-gathering aircraft.

Aircraft tracking sites have spotted the Army’s Airborne Reconnaissance and Targeting Multi-Mission Intelligence System (Artemis)—a Leidos-owned Bombardier Challenger 600—operating from an airport in southeast Romania since November, flying surveillance missions with a recently fielded electronic intelligence (ELINT) payload that range from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea at a 41,000-ft. altitude with a nearly 250-mi. view to the horizon.

• ARES will soon join Artemis demonstrator
• Request for information for follow-on program coming soon

Artemis will soon be eclipsed by a more advanced technology demonstrator—an L3Harris-owned Bombardier Global 6000 named the Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare System (ARES), which is expected to be delivered from a modification center before the end of March. ARES will come equipped with a developmental elint and communications-intelligence payload called the High-Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) on a jet with an operational ceiling of 51,000 ft., which stretches the sensor horizon to 275 mi.

Meanwhile, the first Northrop Grumman Long-Range Radar-Enhanced (LRR-E) payload is scheduled to complete installation on an Army EO-6C—a new derivative of the De Havilland Canada Dash 8 twin-turboprop—by the end of June. As a scaled-up version of the Northrop ZPY-5 Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar, the LRR-E will give the Army a synthetic aperture radar with ground-moving-target-indication (GMTI) capability at a crucial moment, as the Air Force moves forward with the retirement of the Northrop E-8C Joint Stars fleet by 2025.

In combination, all three moves—the ongoing Artemis mission, the ARES demonstration with the HADES payload and the LRR-E activation on the EO-6C—are pathfinders for the Army’s quest to field the high-altitude Multi-Domain Sensing System (MDSS) fleet by fiscal 2028, with options that include the Global 6000, Gulfstream G550 and Boeing 737.

At a time when the Air Force is abandoning the Joint Stars’ long-range GMTI mission with no confirmed replacement strategy, the Army is pressing forward with its own high-altitude airborne sensing capability, seeking to provide the over-the-horizon targeting data demanded by new long-range precision fires batteries, such as the rocket-boosted Lockheed Martin Dark Eagle hypersonic glide vehicle and the Lockheed Precision-Strike Missile (PRSM) that enter service in fiscal 2023.

The ongoing Artemis missions over Eastern Europe offer a glimpse of the role the Army envisions for the future MDSS fleet. The days of Joint Stars aircraft operating directly in support of combat operations against a peer adversary have passed. The publicly released 155-km (96-mi.) range of the Joint Stars’ APY-7 radar falls within the 380-400-km engagement envelope of the 40N6 interceptor launched by Russia’s S-400 Triumph integrated air defense system.

But the Army still sees a peacetime role for a high-altitude intelligence-gathering fleet, leveraging new investments in long-range sensors to peer deep behind enemy lines and build a library of emitting targets, including radars and communication systems, for Dark Eagle and PRSM warheads to strike during the first days of a war.

For decades, the Army has performed this mission with RC-12s carrying elint-collecting Guardrail Common Sensors and the multisensor Airborne Reconnaissance Low fleet. But these turboprop-powered aircraft came with a ceiling of 35,000 ft. and supported land-based missiles, such as the Army Tactical Missile System, with a fraction of the range of Dark Eagle and PRSM.

The Army commissioned the Artemis demonstrator in July 2020 to learn more about how to address the mismatch between the range of its new missiles and the reach of its current airborne sensors. Artemis is equipped with the Sierra Nevada SS-4000, an off-the-shelf payload fielded on the RC-12 fleet last June. The MDSS fleet will come with the more advanced HADES and a GMTI radar.

“The HADES platform will include a radar capability, and LRR-E could potentially be a candidate system,” says a spokesman for the Army’s Project Director Sensors Aerial Intelligence office.

The Army selected L3Harris and Raytheon to demonstrate sensor prototypes last June for the HADES Phase 1 program. Follow-on awards for a Phase 2 demonstration on the ARES aircraft are scheduled in the third quarter.

“Industry should expect a series of requests for information [RFI] to come from the Army on the MDSS HADES program in the spring of 2022,” the spokesman says.