Integration Of The Pac 3 Missile Segment Into The Patriot Air Defense System

The Patriot Air Defense System has been developed as a modular system with a high level of integrated software-driven functionality providing a broad range of inherent flexibility. The system has evolved from its initial, basic design which provided defense against the air breathing threat in complex countermeasure environments with a single Patriot missile type to the Patriot Advanced Capability 2 (PAC-2) which provides defense against a combination of the air breathing and tactical ballistic missile threats utilizing four missile types. The Patriot Air Defense System continues to evolve to the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) configuration which incorporates radar and communication upgrades as well as the Lockheed Martin Vought Systems (LMVS) PAC-3 missile, a fifth missile type. As part of this capability, scheduled to be fielded in 1999, the Patriot Project Office (PPO) and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) have contracted with Raytheon for the integration of the PAC-3 Missile Segment into the Patriot Air Defense System. The goal of this program is to achieve a balanced design that provides a fielded capability which maximizes the kill potential of the PAC-3 missile while maintaining overall performance of the Patriot System. The modular hardware design and flexible software architecture of the Patriot Air Defense System supports a system design which meets this goal.

The U.S. Army is upgrading its PATRIOT Air Defense Missile System with hit-to-kill technology. The improvements of the launching station, enagement control station and the addition of a hit-to-kill guided missile interceptor are managed under the PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Program, now three years into it's development contract. PAC-3 uses an extremely accurate on-board seeker and guidance system and an agile attitude control system to achieve a direct hit by the interceptor on the target. The hit-to-kill concept utilizes kinetic energy as its primary kill mechanism to disintegrate incoming tactical ballistic missiles and their warheads. PAC-3 is being executed within the most advanced defense acquisition reform policies. It uses the Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) concept with government/contractor Integrated Product Teams (IPT). Streamlining of the establishment of the product baseline has been achieved by mutual agreement on design review scheduling and content. Extensive use of state-of-the-art modeling and simulation as well as exhaustive component testing are in combination the mechanism which is building confidence that the hit-to-kill technology is ready for production and deployment. This will provide substantial advancement in Army Theater Missile Defense (TMD) Active Defense force dominance.

The affordable PAC-3 system upgrade approach is based on innovative, joint consolidation and integration of existing industry and government assets. Through the integrated use of a network of geographically dispersed simulation, hardware in the loop, and test facilities, the PAC-3 missile design and performance is being analyzed and verified prior to first missile flight. This process begins with the thorough and rigorous testing of missile components. It then continues with the use of integrated simulations which is a key activity to verify and predict PATRIOT system performance with PAC-3 upgrades. The process is culminated with system level and flight testing conducted at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. During the Gulf War, the PATRIOT air defense system made its now-famous battlefield debut against Tactical Ballistic Missiles (TBMs). Through a succession of improvements and modifications to refocus its mission on missile defense, PATRIOT helped defend coalition forces and Israeli territory from Iraqi Scud missile attacks. Despite this success, we realized that we needed to improve lethality (ability to destroy hard TBM warheads), radar detection range, defended area (footprint) and automatic recording of battle data. Improvements to the Engagement Control Station (ECS), radar, missile and launcher were planned to counter the TBM threat. Not only would a new state of the art Hit to Kill (HTK) technology advanced missile need to be developed, but it needed to be quickly and affordably integrated into the existing PATRIOT system.

PATRIOT, the centerpiece of the Army's echelon above corps and theater air defense forces, is an extremely capable high-to-medium altitude, long-range air defense missile system which provides air defense of ground combat forces and high-value assets against the air threat of the 1990s and beyond. PATRIOT is designed to cope with enemy defense suppression tactics that may include tactical ballistic missiles (TBM), cruise missiles, anti-radiation missiles, advanced aircraft employing saturation, maneuver, sophisticated electronic countermeasures (ECM), and low radar cross-section. In the Field Army, PATRIOT air defenses will be complemented by short-range, low altitude forward area defense weapons and will be integrated with other ground and air assets in the overall air defense of the theater of operations. The system can conduct multiple simultaneous engagements of high performance air breathing targets and TBMs with a high probability of target kill. The system will provide air defense protection in all weather conditions and in hostile ECM environments. At the battery level or Fire Unit (FU) level, the PATRIOT missile system consists of an Engagement Control Station (ECS), one Radar Set (RS), an Electric Power Plant (EPP), eight Launching Stations (LS), and associated communications equipment. At the battalion level, command and control is exercised through the Information and Coordination Central (ICC) and associated communications equipment including Communications Relay Groups (CRG). The PATRIOT RS is a multifunction phased array radar which performs a variety of surveillance, acquisition, and guidance tasks. The only manned element of the FU during air battle, the ECS, provides the human interface for control of automated operations.

PATRIOT, the centerpiece of the Army's corps and theater air defense forces, is an extremely capable high to medium altitude, long range air defense missile system which provides air defense of ground combat forces and high value assets against the air threat of the 1990s and beyond. PATRIOT is designed to cope with enemy defense suppression tactics that may include tactical ballistic missiles (TBM), cruise missiles, anti-radiation missiles, advanced aircraft employing saturation, maneuver, sophisticated electronic countermeasures (ECM), and low radar cross section. In the Field Army, PATRIOT air defenses will be complemented by short range, low altitude forward area defense weapons and will be integrated with other ground and air assets in the overall air defense of the theater of operations. The system can conduct multiple simultaneous engagements of high performance air breathing targets and TBMs with a high probability of target kill. The system will provide air defense protection in all weather conditions and in hostile ECM environments. At the battery level or Fire Unit (FU) level, the PATRIOT missile system consists of an Engagement Control Station (ECS), one Radar Set (RS), an Electric Power Plant (EPP), eight Launching Stations (LS), and associated communications equipment.

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The Patriot and the Navy Area ballistic missile defense systems are expected to provide the lower tier of defense in an overall missile defense strategy, which includes the Army's Theater High Altitude Area Defense and Navy Theater Wide systems. These latter systems are designed to intercept targets at much higher altitudes (above the atmosphere) than the Patriot missile. Engineering and manufacturing development of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile was approved in May 1994. The original schedule called for initial fielding of the missile in 1998 and missile procurement through 2002. Several delays have occurred since that time. As of March 2000, initial fielding of the PAC-3 missile was planned for 2001, and missile procurement was planned through 2010. With the exception of the missile, all PAC-3 components are upgrades to existing Patriot components. The PAC-3 missile is based on the Extended Range Interceptor Technology program, in which the Department of Defense (DOD) explored the feasibility of developing a hit-to-kill missile. Under this program, the extended range missile was developed in a laboratory environment, prototype missiles were fabricated, and the missiles successfully intercepted three of four test targets. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, a DOD agency responsible for missile defense programs, provides overall management of the PAC-3 program, including its funding. The Army's Program Executive Office for Air and Missile Defense and the Patriot Project Office provide day-to-day management of the program.

"[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.

The Army developed the Patriot missile system to defend against high performance aircraft. In the mid-to-late 1980s the Army developed a modified version (Patriot ATM) of the system to defend against tactical missiles (short-range ballistic, cruise, and air-to-surface). PAC-1 mods involved software changes and PAC-2, hardware changes (new fuse and larger fragments for the warhead). Patriot ATM was used during the Persian Gulf War in early 1991 to defend cities and sites in Saudi Arabia and Israel. Patriot's success against Iraqi Scuds spawned conflicting claims about who supported Patriot and who didn't. The legislative history of Patriot ATM is not that simple. It is linked to nearly-decade long congressional efforts to get DOD to respond to the tactical missile threat: first, the Soviet threat to NATO forces; now, the proliferating global threat. The public record reveals a congressional consensus for early deployment of an effective tactical ballistic missile defense (TBMD).