Decisions To Be Made in Charting Future of DOD's Assault Breaker

Major issues concerning the future of the Department of Defense (DOD) Assault Breaker Program were reviewed. Assault Breaker is a concept using standoff weapons to attack moving, rear echelon armor massed deep behind enemy lines. Presently, the only nonnuclear means for attacking these targets is by the use of manned, penetrating aircraft. The advantage of Assault Breaker is that it would permit attacking these targets with standoff weapons. In this concept, different types of weapons are deployed from a communications control network. A uniquely high rate of kill is obtained at a much smaller risk and cost than present weapons permit.