# Network-enabled weapon

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'''Network-enabled weapons''' are a class of air-to-ground [precision-guided munitions](/source/precision-guided_munitions) that are being developed by a number of countries.<ref>{{cite web |last=Joint Test and Evaluation|title=Joint Command and Control for Net-enabled Weapons |url=http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2007netcentric/Leibac_JC2NEW7Mar07.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001011244/http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2007netcentric/Leibac_JC2NEW7Mar07.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 1, 2007|publisher=Defense Technical Information Center|accessdate=27 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=World's First Net-enabled Weapon Completes Developmental Testing|url=http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/25973|accessdate=27 August 2012|newspaper=Baynet.com|date=25 January 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128113510/http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/25973|archivedate=28 January 2012}}</ref>  A derivative of [GPS](/source/GPS)-guided weapons, which are guided to a specific coordinate entered prior to release, network-enabled weapons have the additional ability to have targeting coordinates updated in flight through the use of a common [datalink](/source/datalink), and be tracked by aircraft and other platforms<ref name="ndiagulfcoast">{{cite web|last=Sanders|first=Keith|title=Network Enabled Strike |url=http://www.ndiagulfcoast.com/events/archive/32nd_symposium/day1/Sanders%20Keith%20AAC%20Brief%20OCT2006v1FINAL.pdf |publisher=National Defence Industrial Association}}</ref>  logged into the same network.<ref>{{cite web|last=Koudelka|first=Benjamin|title=Network-enabled Precision Guided Munitions |url=http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/bugs_ch03.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221075227/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/bugs_ch03.pdf |url-status=dead|archive-date=February 21, 2007 |publisher=Air University|accessdate=August 27, 2012}}</ref> Previous weapons have used datalink to provide updated target information in flight (e.g. [AMRAAM](/source/AMRAAM)), but the creation of a common datalink allows control of the weapon to be passed from one platform to another, for example from an aircraft that launches the weapons to a ground party that is in visual contact with an enemy tank formation.

The concept for network-enabled weapons originated at the [U.S. Air Force's](/source/U.S._Air_Force) [Air Combat Command](/source/Air_Combat_Command) headquarters in 2003 as a solution to the problem of attacking moving targets in all-weather, high-threat environments. The Air Force's [Air Armament Center](/source/Air_Armament_Center) refined the idea and in late 2003 declared network-enabled weapons to be the "single most cost effective means available for enhancing overall armament capability."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Taylor|first=Ron|title=Net-Enabled Weapons |journal=Intercom |date=December 2004|volume=45|issue=12|pages=11 |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/1440647/US-Air-Force-AFD070205037 |accessdate=27 August 2012}}</ref>

An [Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration](/source/Advanced_Concept_Technology_Demonstration) was funded in 2005<ref>{{cite web |last=Rutledge |first=Linda |title=Weapons Datalink Network Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration |url= http://www.docstoc.com/docs/889206/NETWORKING-WEAPONS-Weapons-Data-Link-Network-Advanced-Concept-Technology-Demonstration |accessdate=27 August 2012}}</ref> to develop the miniaturized radio that would be needed and demonstrate the feasibility of the concept.<ref name="ndiagulfcoast" /> Subsequently, the requirements for the [Small Diameter Bomb](/source/Small_Diameter_Bomb) Increment 2 were modified to incorporate the capability.<ref>{{cite web |last=Staff Writers|title=Small Diameter Bomb II finds, hits moving target |url= http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Small_Diameter_Bomb_II_finds_hits_moving_target_999.html |publisher=Space War|accessdate=27 August 2012}}</ref>  Later weapons incorporating this technology include the [AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon](/source/AGM-154_Joint_Standoff_Weapon) (JSOW C-1) and the Turkish Air Force's [SOM](/source/SOM_(missile)) cruise missile.

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