UNITED STATES AIR FORCE 2025
9.2 Weather Analysis and Modification
System
Brief Description
A global network of sensors provides "weather warriors" with the
means to monitor and accurately predict weather activities and their
effects on military operations. A diverse set of weather modification
tools allows manipulation of small-to-medium scale weather phenomena
to enhance friendly force capabilities and degrade those of the
adversary. Many of the sensors required for this system are assumed
to be external (i.e., part of the global information management
system (GIMS), discussed in System 8.1).
Capabilities
- Understanding and predicting local weather effects on military
oper-ations
- Precipitation inducement or suppres-sion using particulate
seeding or directed energy
- Fog generation/dissipation using directed energy techniques
- Storm triggering/enhancement using airborne cloud seeding
- High-power microwave (HPM) devices (ground-based) and iono-spheric
mirrors for communications and radar enhancement/disruption
- Ionospheric charging for spacecraft disruption using crossed
HPM beams
Enabling Technologies (MCTL)
- 2.6, Micromechanical Devices
- 4.1, Digital Processing
- 4.1.1, High-Performance Computing
- 4.2, Software
- 4.2.5, Data Fusion
- 4.2.9, Artificial Intelligence
- 4.3, Hybrid Computing
- 6.9 Other Sensors
- 11.2, High-Power RF System
