Proliferation of Precision Strike: Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and considers issues for Congress related to the worldwide proliferation of "precision strike" capabilities. Precision strike systems utilize projectiles, bombs, missiles, torpedoes, and other weapons that can actively correct for initialaiming or subsequent errors by homing on their targets or aim-points after being fired, released, or launched. Some analysts state that "the United States took an early lead in exploiting the promise of precision-strike systems and the use of precision weaponry has given the United States a battlefield edge for twenty years. However, these weapons are now spreading: other countries, and non-state actors, are acquiring them and developing countermeasures against them." As precision-strike capabilities spread, will the United States see its edge erode? The fact that this ability of the United States to project power could also diminish possibly leaving U.S. forces, and eventually the United States itself, increasingly vulnerable to precision weapons in the hands of its adversaries will raise a number of serious considerations for Members of Congress.


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