US punch list for Fires probably applies to Canada as well.
Brig. Gen. Robert Mikesh, charged with offensive fires, detailed a quadruple challenge — energetics and propulsion, targeting and seekers, the industrial base and “munitions breadth and depth.”
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1. energetics and propulsion,
2. targeting and seekers,
3. the industrial base and
4. “munitions breadth and depth.”
The last one needs some expansion
“Not every target requires the most exquisite munition, and not every threat should be defeated with our most expensive interceptor,” he added. “We need a balanced mix of affordable mass and exquisite capability.”
Lt. Gen. John Rafferty, who heads up Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), spoke with Breaking Defense about this very problem Wednesday.
From his vantage point, the future consists of a mix of high-end interceptors that can take down threats like maneuverable ballistic missiles, while soldiers use lower-cost, less capable interceptors for things like non-turbo Shahed drones.
“There’s a range of threats that are in between” those options too, Rafferty added, “from fixed-wing to rotary-wing to other unmanned systems to cruise missiles. And each one of those threats has an optimized effector, and the limiting factor is not having that full range of effectors from cheap and easily produced to very sophisticated and hard to make.”