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美日大規模聯合軍演在岩手縣展開
中央社 2004-11-02 11:34

（中央社記者謝震南東京二日專電）一項長達十二天的大規模美日聯合軍演，今天起在岩手縣境內展開。在駐沖繩美軍是否移轉至日本本土引發關切之際，這項著重美日協同作戰的演習格外受到側目。

今天起至本月十三日實施的「平成十六年度日美實動訓練」，演習範圍包括：岩手山演習場、瀧澤村的陸自岩手駐屯地。

日方演習部隊由司令部位在青森縣的陸上自衛隊第六師團部分兵力擔綱，美方投入德州陸軍的第三十六步兵師及來自德州聖安東尼的1-141步兵營部分兵力約三百人。

擔任演習最高指揮官的美日將領，分別是駐日美國陸軍司令艾伯特．帕金斯、陸自第九師團（相當正規師編制）師團長廣瀨誠。

日方參與演習的兵員，以來自青森縣弘前駐屯地的第三十九普通科（步兵）連隊為主體，總計約四百員。

Using Vietnam-era tactics, Army maxing helicopters in counterinsurgency war
By Jim Krane, Associated Press, 11/1/2004 02:10

TAJI, Iraq (AP) The U.S. military is increasingly turning to attack helicopters to battle guerrillas in Iraq, using tactics closer to those from Vietnam or Israel than the Gulf war formations that blasted Iraqi tanks.

The Army is also pushing its fleets of transport helicopters as hard as it can, ferrying U.S. troops and Iraqi leaders by air, rather than letting them drive the countrys ambush-prone roads.

When we fly, soldiers dont die, said Col. Jim McConville, who commands the 1st Cavalry Divisions aviation brigade. Were basically flying as much as we can. And we cant fly them enough.

Since February, McConvilles 4th Brigade, headquartered on this dust-blown air base just north of Baghdad, has flown 50,000 combined hours in its nearly 100 helicopters, the highest airborne rate in division history.

Helicopters have emerged as the most important weapon in the U.S. air war in Iraq. Pairs of Apache, Kiowa and Marine Cobra attack helicopters often act as the eyes and arms for small bands of ground troops.

And they are expected to be critical to the forthcoming attempt to retake guerrilla-held Fallujah.

Helicopters have proven themselves in dozens of counterinsurgency battles, with pilots radioing directions or firing rockets, allowing ground troops to overcome ambushes or blocked streets.

Its an adrenaline rush, guys flying 140 miles per hour just above the trees and firing rockets, said McConville, whose own helicopters have been rocked by rocket-propelled grenades or punched with bullets.

The Black Hawk, which entered service in 1979, has become a taxi for soldiers and contractors hopping from the safety of one U.S. base to another.

If everyone had a choice no one would drive, said McConville, 45, of Quincy, Mass. But theres not enough aircraft to fly every soldier who wants to fly.

The ominous thumping sound of American helicopters roaring over Baghdads rooftops is becoming as emblematic of this war as it was of Vietnam.

In February, an Iraqi reporter asked Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, spokesman for the occupation forces, what he would recommend Iraqi mothers tell their children frightened by low-flying helicopters.

What we would tell the children of Iraq is that the noise they hear is the sound of freedom, Kimmitt said.

American helicopters provoke dread among insurgents as well, McConville said. The shooting often stops when one shows up.

The Iraqis are afraid of helicopters, McConville said. We think theyre pretty deadly. But they think theyre a lot more deadly than they are.

The 1st Cavalry, whose pioneering of Vietnam Air Cav operations was featured in the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now, has seen two of its helicopters shot down. Two other 1st Cavalry Kiowas collided and crashed, for unknown reasons, in October.

Heavy armor, like the Black Hawks Kevlar flooring, helps bring the machines back after theyve been hit.

Theyll come in with holes and well repair them, said Maj. John Agor, 42, striding through a Taji hangar filled with disassembled Black Hawks and Apaches. More likely than not well put them back into battle that night.

Helicopter tactics here resemble those that emerged at the end of the Vietnam war, when the Viet Cong acquired Soviet-made SA-7 missiles that were able to pick off high-flying choppers. U.S. pilots began flying low and fast, skimming the trees and fields in a technique known as mapping the earth.

When the Apache gunship entered service, tactics evolved again.

The Army trained pilots to hover behind front lines and blast tanks with long-range missiles. Apache pilots did just that in the Gulf war.

But Iraqi insurgents have no front lines or tanks. After rebels with shoulder-fired missiles took down a pair of helicopters, including a Chinook transport in November that killed 16 U.S. troops, the Army stopped flying at high altitudes.

We used to hover around. We cant do that now because you get shot down, McConville said. People thought it was safer to come down low and risk small arms fire and wires.

So the Army went back to mapping the earth, with improvements. Helicopters have better armor and are loaded with precision weapons and night targeting systems, including those that can detect a persons body heat.

Apaches and Kiowas operate in street battles much the same way as in the Israeli military: rocketing single cars or buildings sheltering insurgents.

You try to shoot them in an alleyway or shoot one car thats moving along a street, said Capt. Ryan Welch, 29, an Apache pilot with the 4th Brigade. Its not something we used to train for.

The urban fighting puts big decisions into the hand of a 20-something flier.

When a 1st Cavalry Apache team fired on a disabled Bradley armored vehicle in August, among those killed was an Al-Arabiya television reporter who was broadcasting live. The widely viewed carnage brought criticism on the U.S. military. McConville said his pilots are well aware of their potential for instant infamy.

The Army relies so heavily on its helicopters that some are being flown at rates beyond military recommendations.

Lt. Col. Mike Lundy, commander of the 1st Cavalrys Kiowa regiment, said each of his armed Kiowas flies around 105 hours per month, well over the recommended 65 hours.

Major overhauls normally done every two years are now needed every six months, said Agor, the maintenance chief.

Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

FCS UAV Technology Will Be Ready When Funding Is, Official Says
By Lisa Troshinsky
11/02/2004 07:41:59 AM

Although the U.S. Armys Future Combat Systems (FCS) program currently doesnt have funding to deploy its future unmanned aerial vehicles before the first scheduled full unit of action in 2014, much of the technology will be ready before that, a Boeing official said.

If the Army decides to fund buying the UAVs for the programs spiral development, the program could have the Class I UAV ready for Spiral 2 in 2010, the Class II and III UAVs ready for Spiral 3 in 2012 and the Class IV UAV as early as Spiral 2, Mark Franzblau of Boeing, director of the UAV systems integrated product team for FCS, told The DAILY.

Before 2014, the current funding schedule would deploy current UAVs with new FCS technology, he said.

Two Class I UAVs, weighing a total of 35 pounds, will be carried in an individual soldiers backpack and be used for immediate situational awareness in urban areas for use at the platoon level (see chart for UAV details). The UAV will be able to perch on tops of buildings and hover and stare into windows and have line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight vision, Franzblau said.

Differences in classes

The Class I UAV, which is being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Honeywell, will have ducted fan propulsion and is to be flight-tested for the first time in March 2005 (DAILY, Nov. 1).

The Class II UAV will use either ducted fan technology or be a more conventional fixed-wing vehicle or rotorcraft, a decision on that is slated for 2007. The Army will hold an industry day on the vehicle on Dec. 1, with a request for proposals due out in early February, Franzblau said.

DARPA is soon to award a contract or contracts for the ducted fan technology, and the Army will award a contract or contracts for an alternative design - which could be the fixed-wing or rotorcraft vehicle design - in June, he said.

The Class III UAV, a 300-500 pound vehicle, will be used at the battalion level. Its missions will include mine and chemical/biological/nuclear weapon detection. It will have a six-hour endurance and travel up to a 24-mile radius.

DARPA is working with contractor Dragonfly Pictures to develop a rotorcraft, and for alternative designs, the Army will hold its industry day Dec. 1, put out an RFP in February, and award a contract in June.

Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Fire Scout UAV already has been selected as the Class IV UAV.

The UAV already is in the system development and demonstration phase. A system function review is scheduled for May 2005, a preliminary design review in early 2006 and a critical design review in 2007. Four vehicles together would provide 24-hour continuous wide area coverage.

01 November 2004

Northrop unveils laser to counter mortar attacks

By Michael Sirak JDW Staff Reporter
Washington, DC

Northrop Grumman has offered the US Army a directed-energy laser weapon - which it says could be available within 18 months of a contract - to counter the mortar threat to US and coalition forces currently operating in Iraq.

The concept, dubbed the High Energy Laser for Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (HELRAM) defence system, has grown out of the companys continuing work on a deuterium-fluoride chemical laser system under the joint US Army-Israeli Ministry of Defence Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) programme.

Patrick Caruana, Northrop Grumman vice president for Missile and Space Defense, said the HELRAM concept stems from the companys desire to offer a nearer-term means of shooting down mortar rounds in flight as well as rockets and artillery shells before MTHEL is available: an MTHEL prototype is expected by the end of the decade for testing.

We have already demonstrated at our test site the shootdown capability against medium and heavy mortar [rounds], he told JDW on 26 October, referring to tests on 24 August during which the THEL testbed shot down seven mortar rounds, including three during a salvo attack. That gave us a good deal of confidence that what we had was the ability to engage these threats and kill them.

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Electronic Attack Targets Elusive Foes

By David A. Fulghum
11/07/2004 02:41:04 PM

NEW ENERGY DIRECTION

Aerospace researchers are unveiling unmanned helicopters, microwave weapons and tactics that U.S. Army aircraft must use to survive as they are pushed down to low altitudes in daylight to attack a new lineup of hard-to-find targets.

At the top of the Armys list of threats are low-power radios and cellphones that are hard to detect and decipher but that allow groups of irregular fighters to communicate and coordinate their attacks. Like the U.S. Air Force, the Army wants to incorporate electronic surveillance, analysis and attack into its small-unit arsenal of weapons.

The technical strategies used also hint at how industry is trying to cope with the Armys chronic budget problems and its on-again, off-again love affair with aviation. The service is wavering, for example, in its funding of the Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft (UCAR). Meanwhile, industry is offering what could be either an early segue to UCAR or a far less expensive alternative with many of its capabilities.

Industry also is showing prototypes of directed-energy weapons, including portable lasers and--more importantly as airborne weapons--small, high-power microwave (HPM) devices that can be carried by relatively small unmanned aircraft and helicopters.

Senior officials, such as Waldo F. Carmona, Boeings director of Advanced Army and Rotorcraft Systems, are predicting exciting developments in HPM technology during the next 12-18 months as researchers push directed-energy weapon payloads down to 1,000 lb., the magic number that makes them viable for carriage on unmanned aircraft.

Carmona also revealed that Boeings unmanned version of the Little Bird helicopter is flying and suggested that carrying an HPM weapon would be a useful role, along with surveillance, supply, and search and rescue in areas behind enemy lines.

Germanys Diehl was at the recent Washington meeting of the Assn. of the U.S. Army showing a man-portable HPM device that offers what company officials say is a cheaper route to fielding such weapons.

The suitcase-size version of the CS-110 HPM system can destroy electronic modules (including those in surveillance systems or vehicles), generate resets in computer processors, induce power latch-ups, jam radios or disable infrared or proximity fuses, says Michael Sporer, business manager for HPM new products. He also points out that hardening against nuclear-explosion-produced electromagnetic pulses doesnt work because of different rise times in the power spikes. It can help protect convoys against remotely triggered weapons out to 75 meters. Using flat-plate or corner reflectors, it can focus the beam of energy into a 45-deg. swath.

To this point, most HPM weapons have been designed as high-frequency devices (1-10 GHz.) to attack electronic devices such as radars through their antennas, Sporer says. His product--which uses a 24-volt battery, high-voltage generator and two parallel resonators--operates in the 200-450-MHz. band and targets much smaller 2-10-cm.-long cables and metal framework parts at far less cost than high-frequency devices.

Critics of these low-frequency devices say their directivity is poor, and they produce large sidelobes that can damage electronics on the vehicles carrying them. High-frequency designs offer more precision and longer ranges when narrowly focused.

However, those designing high-frequency HPM weapons have yet to produce a system that weighs less than a ton, say those looking for airborne payloads. New technologies such as lithium-ion batteries have solved the power problem for these devices. However, methodologies for cooling the weapon are keeping payload weights high.

For example, Saft Corp. is offering improved lithium-ion batteries that can offer instantaneous power of 10 kw. from a 3 X 7-in. package. These can be connected to reach the 100-kw. output deemed useful for multiple shots from smaller HPM devices without resorting to the use of capacitors. The increasing interest in directed-energy weapons is measured by government and industry demand for test cells of specific sizes and capabilities to drive prototype electronic weapon designs. Glen Bowling, Safts director of defense sales, says the cost for the batteries is still high but is expected to drop within a few years to $2,000-3,000 per kilowatt per hour. Research is underway to double the current battery capability in even higher power models in 5-10 years.

Originally, HPM payloads were eyed for the Unmanned Combat Air System, a stealthy unmanned strike aircraft possibly modeled on Northrop Grummans X-47 or Boeings X-45. But as the weapons become more feasible, they are being seen as future payloads for the UCAR helicopter being designed by Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. However, the Army, following a tradition of starving aviation programs, is trying to cut funding.

Boeing, without making any claims, is operating a modified MD-530F helicopter that can be flown unmanned or by a pilot, and offers much of the UCARs capability, Carmona says. The Unmanned Little Bird made its first flight Sept. 8 and has accumulated 20 hr. as a fully operational UAV. It also has been controlled remotely from the front seat of an AH-64D Apache Longbow.

Its missions are to include carrying up to a ton of cargo in a sling, launching weapons, surveillance/reconnaissance, communications relay or picking up isolated special operations teams and downed aircrews well behind enemy lines. These are all considered risky missions, as is HPM weapons use, that might best be done by unmanned craft.

Another mission that might best be done by unmanned aircraft is suppression of enemy air defenses, which could include the use of rapid-fire guns and precision-guided missiles and HPM weapons that attack sensitive electronics on antiaircraft weapons and sensors.

Manned Little Bird helicopters are already being flown by the Armys special operations forces. In addition, the kit that transforms the Little Bird to a UAV can be installed on any helicopter in the 5,500-lb. range (like the Kiowa Warrior), Carmona says. With larger fuel tanks, the aircraft has a 450-naut.-mi. mission radius and up to 10 hr. endurance, he adds.

In a parallel effort, the Army has combined the operations of an unmanned Vigilante UAV rotorcraft with a manned UH-1. In December, the Vigilante, again controlled by a UH-1, will demonstrate airborne rocket firings at Yuma (Ariz.) Proving Ground.

As to future projects, Carmona says he has been challenged by the Army to unman a much larger CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter. Two advantages could come from the capability: By eliminating the need for a pilot, resupply missions could continue to be flown even when aviators (who are expected to be in ever shorter supply) have been grounded by the rules for crew rest. In addition, the large carry capability of the CH-47 would make it an ideal platform for bulky payloads such as HPM crowd-control devices being developed for the Marine Corps.

Being able to survive in a dangerous battlefield environment will be a key consideration for these unmanned systems.

The ability of the Little Bird to survive will rely on networking to let the operators know when enemy threats are located, low-altitude flying, and suppression of the helicopters IR signature, Carmona says. To that end, he says he and others will press for improved airspace management and deconfliction regulations so that UAVs can operate effectively and with fewer restrictions at altitudes of 5,000 ft. and less. Aircraft carrying HPM weapons, in particular, are expected to have to close within a half-mile of the target to be effective.

Farther up in the survivability scale, but with a larger price tag, are the competing UCAR designs. Both will have shapes that offer little radar reflectivity and small IR signatures because of shielded exhaust systems and specialized coatings. Their sound also will be reduced by elimination of the tail rotor, which produces more than half of any helicopters high-frequency noise.

The major problem for rotorcraft in avoiding radar is the large, distinct signature from the main rotors. Both designs are expected to have specialized coatings on the rotor blades to absorb radio-frequency energy.

Northrop Grummans unique system of two canted rotor masts and counterrotating rotors is designed to provide an extra measure of reduction in radar reflectivity, while a laser-based altimeter is to allow high-speed, nap-of-the-earth flight to take full advantage of terrain masking. The latter design will also do away with ground stations and pump data directly to other aircraft with network links, such as the Apache or ground vehicles.

美國陸軍計劃購買690架兩種直升機


www.XINHUANET.com　　2004年11月08日 08:46:36　　來源：中國航空資訊網

[美國《航空週刊與航太技術》2004年11月01日刊報道] 美國陸軍的兩個最大的新項目是計劃採購368架武裝偵察直升機(ARH)計劃和322架輕型多用途直升機(LUH)計劃。美陸軍官員稱，成本和進度是選擇供貨商的兩個最主要因素。

但工業界有人稱，陸軍的計劃中有一些不現實的東西。比如，有人認為陸軍將ARH的平均單價定在低於600萬美元不現實。一位工業界官員抱怨說，這一價格沒有考慮將感測器綜合到直升機上的成本。工業界擔心美陸軍會重復科曼奇項目中的錯誤，即製訂出無法執行的計劃。

ARH的性能參數正在談判確定。美陸軍不再要求低亮度級光學感測器。可以容易地空運ARH、卸下飛機並使其在15分鐘內恢復到飛行狀態的能力預計將保留。其他的性能目標包括在海拔1219米、95°F條件下起飛，進一步的目標是在海拔1828米的條件下起飛。正式的性能要求應該在11月底確定，屆時美陸軍計劃發佈招標書。

同將被替代的OH-58D相比，ARH將更注重城市戰。在城市戰中，操縱人員需要的是下視，而非前視，因此ARH的光電/紅外感測器可能選擇安裝在機頭，而非旋翼主軸上。

貝爾直升機公司已決定用貝爾407競爭ARH項目。歐洲直升機公司則在AS550(AS350B3的軍用型)和EC635(EC135的軍用型)之間權衡。波音公司可能推出MD-500系列直升機方案。(姜曙光 責編洪山)

該報說，三菱重工將在美國洛克希德馬丁公司(Lockheed Martin Corp.)的授權下，於明年開始製造這型飛彈，並從2008年起將這些飛彈部署在日本。

報導稱，為了提振日本的國防工業，東京當局說服華府允許一家日本企業製造飛彈。

此舉正值日本準備大幅修改其防禦政策之際。該國預定在年底擬定的新政策預料將主張投資飛彈防衛，而少花點錢在傳統武器上。

報導指出，三菱重工為日本最大的國防承包商，在2003年會計年度中約接到2,800億日圓(27億美元)的訂單。光是PAC-3飛彈的訂單，該公司便預料可獲得逾1,000億日圓的訂單。

由於日本今日為國定假日，三菱重工尚未有人出面對此報導發表評論。(完)

　年内にも閣議決定される新しい「防衛計画の大綱」で防衛庁が実現しようと描いている「自衛隊の将来像」がわかった。陸上自衛隊は、沖縄や四国の混成団を３０００人規模の旅団に増強。北海道以外は、テロなどの脅威を念頭に即応性や機動性を重視した部隊などを配置する。航空自衛隊は戦闘能力に優れた部隊を百里基地（茨城県）から那覇基地（沖縄県）に移すなどの内容だ。北方から南西方面重視の姿勢や機動力の向上という狙いが、編成や装備の面で具体的に示されたのは初めて。

　新大綱では、テロなど新たな脅威や国際活動に対処できる「多機能・弾力的」な防衛力を構築する考えを打ち出す。「将来像」はこうした防衛力のあり方を、防衛庁が具体的な編成や装備として作成。与党や財務省などに説明している。

　自衛官の定員や装備の数量をめぐっては財務省が大規模な削減を求めており、調整は難航している。「将来像」は大綱や中期防衛力整備計画のように閣議決定されるものではないが、この考え方が基になって今後の具体的な防衛力整備が進むことになる。

　「将来像」によれば陸自は、全国の師団・旅団を（１）本格的な侵略に備えた基幹部隊（２）即応性・機動性を重視した部隊（３）普通科を増強した市街地戦闘重視の部隊――に分類する。北海道の部隊を（１）と位置付ける。

　装備面は、機動性に優れた軽装甲機動車を現在の３倍強ほど配備する。編成面は、朝鮮半島や中台情勢をにらみ日本海・南西諸島の警戒を強化するなどの目的で、沖縄の第１混成団（定員約１８００人）と、四国の第２混成団（同約２０００人）を旅団に「格上げ」する。原子力発電所などの重要防護施設を抱える日本海側の部隊では普通科を増強する。北海道の第１１師団（同約７２００人）は旅団に縮小する。

　さらに長官直轄の「中央即応集団」（同約４８００人）を首都圏に創設。有事やテロにヘリコプターなどで緊急展開する「緊急即応連隊」、海外活動の本来任務化を見越した「国際活動教育隊」などを新設し、これらと第１空挺（くうてい）団（千葉県船橋市）やテロ対処専門の「特殊作戦群」（同）を中央即応集団が束ねる。

　空自は海外活動の増加を見越して、航続距離の長い輸送機（ＣＸ）を５年以内に調達するなど「長距離・大量輸送」の能力向上を図る。那覇基地のＦ４要撃戦闘機の１個飛行隊を、より戦闘能力に優れた百里基地のＦ１５戦闘機部隊と入れ替える。

Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

PAC-3 Missile Program Advances On Separate Fronts, Officials Say
愛國者兩方面的新進度
By Marc Selinger
11/19/2004 08:55:36 AM

The U.S. Armys Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile program has achieved significant progress on two key fronts, Army officials said Nov. 18.

The Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE), which aims to make several improvements to the PAC-3 missile, successfully completed its preliminary design review (PDR) the week of Nov. 8-12, said Col. John Vaughn, the Armys lower-tier air and missile defense project manager. There were no major issues during the PDR, which will be followed by one more review, the critical design review, in late summer 2005, Vaughn told The DAILY.

MSE, whose prime contractor is Lockheed Martin Corp., is designed to increase the missiles range and maneuverability and provide the ability to collect data on the missiles interactions with enemy missiles (DAILY, Dec. 11, 2003). The Army hopes to begin equipping units with MSE in fiscal 2011.

The Army also announced that it has successfully conducted the PAC-3 missiles most complex flight-test to date. A total of six missiles - four PAC-3s and two targets - were in the air at the same time, the most ever.

During the test, which occurred about 7:25 a.m. Mountain Standard Time at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., four PAC-3 missiles were fired at a modified older Patriot missile and a Storm target vehicle. The Patriot target emulated a short-range ballistic missile, while the Storm simulated a longer-range ballistic missile with a re-entry vehicle that separated from its booster.

Two PAC-3 missiles were launched at each target. Each target was shot down by the first PAC-3 missile fired at it.

The test was intended to demonstrate several new components designed to make the PAC-3 missile less expensive and easier to produce. Another goal was to demonstrate the systems ability to intercept two ballistic missile targets arriving in their intercept areas at nearly the same time.

Preliminary test data indicate both targets were intercepted and mission objectives were achieved, the Army said.

Testers hosted observers from Germany and the Netherlands, both potential buyers of the PAC-3 missile.

The event also involved the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) systems radar, which tracked the two targets, the Army said. THAAD is scheduled to resume flight-testing in the first quarter of 2005 after a hiatus of several years. Against short- and medium-range ballistic missiles, THAAD targets threats at higher altitudes than the lower tier Patriot system.

The Army plans to conduct its next Patriot system test next summer.

編譯田思怡／報導

英國獨立報廿六日報導，應召入伍的德國兵廿五日打破沈默，承認自從德國哥斯菲爾德陸軍基地去年展開綁架人質演習後，確實有士兵遭到教官捆綁、毆打和電擊虐待，德國各界已將這件醜聞和美軍在伊拉克的虐囚案相提並論。

檢察官正在調查此案，已有十六名軍官遭停職，不過沒有被害人準備公開說出這件事。

但兩名士兵告訴每日畫報，該基地約八十名士兵去年七月到九月常遭到虐待。在例行的綁架人質演習中，他們被罩上頭罩毆打。

一名士兵說，他和另外十一名新兵夜間行軍廿公里，「我們突然被蒙面人抓住，他們用麻袋罩住我們的頭，並捆綁手腳，我們毫無還手餘地」。

這些新兵被帶到地窖「訊問」。另一名士兵告訴每日畫報說：「我們必須跪下來等待，有些人被綁太緊，只能躺著。我們一個個被訊問，他們對我們咆哮，有些人被潑水或掐住脖子，百般凌辱。」

他說，他目擊有新兵遭到電擊，「他們把電線放在我的同伴頸部電擊，他們把他按在地上，他不停慘叫」。

另一顯然由檢察官洩漏給媒體的事證是，教官對士兵的腹股溝、頸部、胃部進行電擊，並把過程拍攝下來，影帶中一名新兵的腰部以下全裸。目擊者指出，被虐過程中想要反擊的新兵「非常驚恐」，回到營房後整晚哭泣。

試射中總共發射四枚「愛國者三型」，其中兩枚在靶彈被成功攔截後自動銷燬。「愛國者」攔截來襲飛彈時，都是一次兩枚同時發射，一旦第一枚未擊中目標，第二枚可以補擊。美軍表示，伊拉克戰爭期間所發射的「愛國者」飛彈，都是第一枚即擊中目標。

報導說，這次試射達成了偵測、追蹤、攻擊、攔截的目標。