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050 0 0 _aUG634.49
_b.S75 1999
100 1 _aStillion, John.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAirbase vulnerability to conventional cruise-missile and ballistic-missile attacks :
_btechnology, scenarios, and U.S. Air Force responses /
_cJohn Stillion, David T. Orletsky.
264 1 _aSanta Monica, CA :
_bRAND,
_c1999.
300 _axxiii, 96 pages :
_billustrations, maps, photos ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"Project Air Force."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 95-96).
520 _aAs part of a two-year effort to develop an expansive construct of air and space power in the early twenty-first century that capitalizes on forthcoming air and space technologies and concepts of operation and is effective against adversaries with diverse economies, cultures, political institutions, and military capabilities, the research team investigated the possibility that future adversaries might be able to mount effective missile attacks on U.S. Air Force (USAF) main operating bases in critical regions. This report does not assess the relative vulnerabilities of various force elements and facilities; instead, it aids the USAF in addressing a potential vulnerability of its in-theater bases: highly accurate attacks against USAF aircraft on parking ramps at such bases made possible by the proliferation of Global Positioning System (GPS) guidance and submunition warhead technologies. If such attacks are feasible, the current USAF operational concept of high-tempo, parallel strikes from in-theater bases could be put in jeopardy. This report concludes that these guidance and munition technologies could, in fact, put USAF bases at serious risk. The report describes the threat technologies and concept of operation in detail, then explores both short-term responses--such as putting machine-gun teams equipped with night-vision goggles in towers around the bases--and long-term responses--such as operating anywhere in the world from a few secure, hardened, fixed bases with guaranteed access--to these threats.
530 _aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bAir Force
_xSecurity measures.
650 0 _aAir bases
_xSecurity measures
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAir defenses
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aBallistic missile defenses
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCruise missile defenses
_zUnited States.
700 1 _aOrletsky, David T.,
_d1963-
_eauthor.
710 2 _aProject Air Force (U.S.).
_bStrategy and Doctrine Program.
710 2 _aRand Corporation.
710 1 _aUnited States.
_bAir Force.
856 4 1 _yOnline Access
_uhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1028/
999 _c596836
_d596836