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L3Harris公司正在向美国陆军推销其模块化的“狼群”（Wolf Pack）系列“发射效应飞行器”（launched effects vehicles），包括装备其H-60“黑鹰”系列和AH-64“阿帕奇”直升机，并着眼于未来太平洋冲突的特定需求。该系列飞行器包括配置用于对陆地或海上目标进行远程精确打击的“红狼”（Red Wolf），以及配备电子战任务载荷的“绿狼”（Green Wolf）。总体而言，这些是迈向部署模块化、相对廉价且小型化系统更广泛趋势的一部分，这些系统正日益模糊无人机系统（特别是长程自杀式无人机）与巡航导弹以及诱饵之间的界限。
读者可以参考我们此前对“狼群”系列的报道，还值得注意的是，该公司已与美国海军陆战队签署合同，交付相关的PASM，即“精确攻击打击弹药”。
本周在田纳西州纳什维尔举行的美国陆军航空协会陆军航空作战峰会上，TWZ采访了L3Harris敏捷开发组战略与需求总监布拉德·里夫斯，讨论了公司对陆军“狼”系列的愿景。
“红狼”发射效应飞行器渲染图。L3Harris公司
TWZ：“狼”系列背后的主要驱动力是什么？它与陆军的旋翼机机群有何关联？
布拉德·里夫斯：战争部（Department of War）非常强调太平洋地区以及那里的冲突。规模（Mass）是一个问题。我们今天拥有许多精良的武器，但其数量可能并不像我们希望在冲突中看到的那样多。所以，他们正试图解决这个问题。“经济实惠的规模化力量”（Affordable mass）已成为一个流行词，其基本含义是：“嘿，我们如何获得能够大量购买且不会倾家荡产的能力？”因此，伴随而来的是...
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L3Harris is pushing its modular Wolf Pack family of “launched effects vehicles” for the U.S. Army, including to equip its H-60 Black Hawk series and AH-64 Apache helicopters, with an eye on the specific demands of a future conflict in the Pacific. The family of vehicles includes the Red Wolf, configured for long-range precision strikes against targets on land or at sea, and the Green Wolf fitted with an electronic warfare payload. Overall, these are part of a wider drive toward fielding modular, relatively cheap, and small systems that increasingly blur the line between uncrewed aerial systems, especially longer-range kamikaze drones, and cruise missiles, as well as decoys.
Readers can refer to our previous coverage of the Wolf Pack family, and it is also worth noting that the company is under contract with the U.S. Marine Corps to deliver the related PASM, the Precision Attack Strike Munition.
At the Army Aviation Association of America’s Army Aviation Warfighting Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, this week, TWZ caught up with Brad Reeves, the director of strategy and requirements for the Agile Development Group at L3Harris, to talk about the company’s vision for the Wolf family with the Army.
A rendering of the Red Wolf launched effects vehicle. L3Harris L3Harris
TWZ: What is the primary driver behind the Wolf family, and how is it relevant to the Army’s rotary-wing fleets?
Brad Reeves: The Department of War has a heavy emphasis on the Pacific and a conflict over there. Mass is an issue. We have a lot of exquisite weapons today, but the numbers are not maybe as high as we might hope for a conflict over there. So, they’re trying to solve that problem. Affordable mass has kind of become the buzzword, which basically means, “hey, how do we get capability that we can buy in quantity without breaking the bank?” And so, with that, the Department of War, actually Secretary Hegseth, issued a memo on April 30 of last year. And one of the things he called out specifically was launched effects, the urgency to get that fielded beginning this year. So, that’s a high-emphasis item for those guys.
A U.S. Army UH-60M Black Hawk. U.S. Air Force photo
Launched effects are really meant to be an affordable mass solution for the Army. But the real story behind this is what we call our Wolf Pack family of systems, and our offering and the capability it brings. And the story here is it’s very capable, but it’s what it does for the Army and for Army aviation. So it’s transforming Army aviation, and it’s addressing platforms that lack some relevancy today in the fight. Black Hawks, Apaches, etc, have a very short-range capability, relatively speaking, when you’re talking about the Pacific, and you have the tyranny of distance and anti-access/area-denial threats. It’s a much harder challenge than what we’ve dealt with in the decades si
