The document discusses current and future weapons requirements for soldiers. It outlines issues with existing weapons such as lack of lethality against body armor, limited ammunition capabilities, and incompatibility with modern equipment. It describes the Soldier Systems Technology Roadmap and projects underway to develop more integrated systems like the Sniper Systems Project and Small Arms Replacement Project 2. The vision is to create portable, networked weapon systems that increase effectiveness through enhanced targeting, identification, accuracy, and scalable lethal and non-lethal effects.

1. The Soldier’s Challenge And Future Weapons Requirements By Major Bruce Gilchrist DLR 5-5 DND November 23-26, 2009 Toronto, Ont. Soldier Systems Technology Roadmap Weapons: Lethal and Non-Lethal Workshop

3. The Weapon Effects “Onion” (Lethality Chain & Overall System Performance) Detect Recognize / Acquire Identify / Hit Defeat Protection (if required) Desired Target Effect(s)

7. 5.56 NATO Error Budget Courtesy of Mr Per G. Arvidsson 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 100 m 200 m 300 m 400 m 500 m 600 m meter Error in range estimation with +/-20 % Target lead for one meter per second Shooting uphill or downhill 10 degrees 20° C temperature difference Drift due to rotation Wind five meters per second Firing from kneeling position (1 00 m m per 100 m) Weapon and ammunition (50 mm per 100 m)

10. The Shooter Does not want this:

11. Lethality NATO A soldier is incapacitated when he is unable to carry out his main task , at the required level of performance, because of being wounded. A soldier is suppressed when he is unable or unwilling to carry out his task effectively , because of the actual or perceived threat, or because of fear (in particular of being wounded).

13. Current Small Arms

14. Current CF Small Arms Target & Training Rifles Ranger & SAR Rifles Signalling Devices Sniper Rifles Shotguns & Less Lethal Weapons Assault Rifles & Carbines Light Machineguns Medium Machineguns Heavy Machineguns Sub Machineguns Pistols

15. No foreign weapons for family training No breaching weapons/ modern grenades Manufactured 1943 to 1945 Manufactured 1945 to 1953 Not compatible with new ammunition Acquired for pest/wildlife control Not compatible with modern night vision or other sensors

24. Allow the soldier to select what information is displayed 1 or 2 default configurations That can be tailored Information from the network IFF Direction to an assigned target Remaining Ammunition Unknown Friendly Enemy

25. The Scene The Squad Commander’s view Fire team on the balcony

26. Suspicious activity is noted Using the EO on the weapon the squad commander tries to identify the threat but the view is obstructed

27. How can the squad commander direct the fire team to confirm the identity? How do they know they are looking at the same person?

28. The Squad Commander’s view The Scene

29. The Fire Team’s view The Scene

30. With networked weapon mounted sensors

31. With Blue Information From the BMS

32. The suspicious person is noticed, lased and the information is passed to the Fire team The Commander also passes an image of the person with the location information

33. The information is injected into the fire team weapon sights

34. They use their EO to rapidly locate, confirm and remove the threat

35. The Scene With networked weapon mounted sensors Any squad member can now quickly locate and bring accurate fire against a threat or put extra eyes on a potential threat

36. Requirement on the precision capability: Concept – Automated engagement of the target

37. Or in a machinegun Define the target area Position sensors stops weapon from firing if shots will be outside of the box