{"id":19716,"date":"2020-09-08T20:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T20:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/09\/08\/for-the-us-armys-fires-capability-2023-is-the-year-that-will-change-everything\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:53:15","slug":"for-the-us-armys-fires-capability-2023-is-the-year-that-will-change-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2020\/09\/08\/for-the-us-armys-fires-capability-2023-is-the-year-that-will-change-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"For the US Army\u2019s fires capability, 2023 is the year that will change everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 By 2023, the U.S. Army will have begun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/03\/20\/army-to-demonstrate-precision-strike-hypersonics-and-ramjet-capabilities-in-just-a-few-years\/\" target=_blank>delivering a portfolio of strategic, mid-range and short-range fires capabilities<\/a> that will change the paradigm against near-peer adversaries Russia and China, according to Brig. 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John Rafferty, who is in charge of the service\u2019s long-range precision fires modernization effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army wrapped up a strategic fires study earlier this year that found a gap in the service\u2019s ability to reach enemy targets in the mid-range (about 500-2,000 kilometers), Rafferty told Defense News in a Sept. 4 interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the initial fielding of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2019\/03\/26\/army-to-prioritize-long-range-missile-capability-to-go-after-maritime-targets\/\" target=_blank>Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM<\/a> \u2014 which is capable of hitting targets out to 499 kilometers \u2014 and ground-launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/army-modernization\/2020\/03\/20\/pentagons-major-hypersonic-glide-body-flight-test-deemed-success\/\" target=_blank>hypersonic missiles <\/a>by 2023, the service will also deliver a mid-range missile prototype in the same time frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense News first reported the Army\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2020\/09\/02\/us-army-pursuing-new-mid-range-missile-amid-tactical-missile-upgrade-delay\/\" target=_blank>plan to pursue a mid-range missile earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to pursue this with great speed and really make \u201923 a year that changes everything in both [the European and Pacific] theaters,\u201d Rafferty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can see in the Pacific where that would be so valuable, having the mid-range capability that can attack maritime targets,\u201d he added. And in Europe, \u201cyou hold the adversary\u2019s assets at risk in depth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adversaries with complex offensive and defensive systems are &#8220;pretty daunting, and we know that it\u2019s going to take a mix of capabilities and mix of ranges,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think having a deep portfolio of range capabilities in the Pacific gives you lots of options because there are so many different locations that you can imagine firing from. And mixing and matching long-range, mid-range and shorter-range capabilities from all those sorts of different locations creates an incredible dilemma for the enemy,\u201d he said. \u201cIf he [the adversary] can\u2019t really tell what you\u2019re ranging from each of these different lily pads, then it makes it very difficult for him to arrange his [anti-access, area denial capability] against it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army launched an effort in its fiscal 2020 budget request to start a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/federal-budget\/2019\/03\/20\/more-fire-power-us-army-sets-out-to-develop-new-missiles-in-fy20\/\" target=_blank>Mobile Intermediate Range Missile program<\/a>, but the service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/federal-budget\/2020\/02\/13\/heres-the-armys-top-10-canceled-and-reduced-programs-in-fy21\/\" target=_blank>canceled the effort in its FY21 request <\/a>because, according to Rafferty, the plan would have delivered a capability on a much longer timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By pursuing a mid-range missile through the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, the Army has the opportunity to move much faster, he added. He was unable to detail what specifically the RCCTO is considering in order to move quickly enough to field a prototype by 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the mid-range missile effort will tackle a range beyond 500 kilometers, that doesn\u2019t mean the Army would abandon its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/07\/18\/first-flight-tests-for-armys-precision-strike-missile-pushed-to-end-of-year\/\" target=_blank>plan to push PrSM ranges beyond 499 kilometers <\/a>following the end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/08\/06\/new-pentagon-chief-reveals-plans-for-pacific-based-missiles-is-capitol-hill-on-board\/\" target=_blank>Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between Russia and the U.S.<\/a> The treaty was a 1987 pact with the Soviet Union banning ground-launched nuclear and conventional ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500-5,000 kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overlap in range capability is \u201ca good thing,\u201d he said. \u201cWe know we need to do more analysis about where the sort of sweet spot for these systems and where they are most effective and least vulnerable to adversary air defense systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The priority for PrSM in the nearer term is to pursue a maritime, ship-killing capability as well as enhanced lethality, Rafferty said. Then the service plans to pursue an extended-range capability for that missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is also monitoring another Pentagon effort through the Strategic Capabilities Office to pursue a mid-range missile capable of going after maritime targets. That effort \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2016\/10\/28\/anti-naval-atacms-big-swarming-breakthroughs-from-strategic-capabilities-office\/\" target=_blank>the Cross-Domain ATACMS<\/a> \u2014 is delayed due to technical problems, Defense News first reported this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s an interesting approach to attacking maritime targets,\u201d Rafferty said, \u201cbut the PrSM program for attacking maritime targets and emitting [Integrated Air Defense Systems] is off to a very good start with the testing of the [Army\u2019s Combat Capabilities Development Command] Aviation and Missile Center seeker that continues this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CD-ATACMS \u201cwas a different approach from a seeker standpoint to PrSM,\u201d Rafferty said, \u201cso that\u2019s why we\u2019re interested in it because it was a different approach; a good point of comparison, and we always value the SCO\u2019s efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rafferty noted that Army senior leaders, industry partners and congressional committees are talking about accelerating the Land-Based Anti-Ship Missile seeker into the PrSM missile by 2025. The seeker development program began in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThen that becomes a capability that can attack maritime targets out to 500 kilometers and emitting IADS out to 500 kilometers and in a survivable way and in a high-performance missile that would be fired out of our existing launcher fleets, so that\u2019s gonna be the mainstream Army capability against maritime and IADS,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fires study also validated the need to continue to pursue a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2019\/10\/16\/strategic-long-range-cannon-preps-to-jump-its-first-tech-hurdle\/\" target=_blank>strategic long-range cannon<\/a>, Rafferty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study didn\u2019t just address range, how the missile flies or its lethality against enemy targets, he stressed: \u201cIt also looked at deployability, survivability and mobility\u201d and was a 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