Editing ATACMS (section)

=== Pre-development ===
The concept of a conventional tactical ballistic missile was made possible by the doctrinal shift of the late [[Cold War]], which rejected the indispensability of an early nuclear strike on the [[Warsaw Pact]] forces in the event the Cold War went hot.<ref name="Romanczuk">{{Cite report|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA517010|title=Lessons From Army System Developments. Volume 2: Case Studies: Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS)|last=Romanczuk|first=Glenn E.|date=11 August 2002|publisher=Alabama Univ in Huntsville Research Inst|location=Huntsville, Alabama|pages=B{{hyphen}}1–B{{hyphen}}23 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430055232/https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA517010 |archive-date=30 April 2022 |url-status=live |access-date=30 April 2022 }}</ref> The [[AirLand Battle]] and [[Follow-on Forces Attack]] doctrines, which emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, necessitated a conventional-armed (hence much more accurate) missile to strike enemy reserves, so the [[United States Army Aviation and Missile Command]] sponsored the Simplified Inertial Guidance Demonstrator (SIG-D) program.<ref name="Romanczuk" />

Within this program, [[Ling-Temco-Vought]] developed a solid-fuel analog of the [[MGM-52 Lance]] missile, designated T-22,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/t-22.htm|title=T-22 (SIG-D, Assault Bereaker) SRBM|access-date=7 September 2020|archive-date=6 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206114045/http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/t-22.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> with a new [[Ring laser gyroscope|RLG]]-based [[Inertial navigation system|inertial guidance package]], which demonstrated unprecedented accuracy.<ref name="Romanczuk" /> In 1978, [[DARPA]] started the [[Assault Breaker]] technology demonstration program to attack armor formations with many mobile hard targets at standoff ranges. It used the T-22 missile and the Patriot-based [[Martin Marietta]] T-16 missile with cluster warheads.

In March 1980 the [[U.S. Army]] decided to replace the Lance with a similar nuclear, but also chemical or biological, tipped solid-fuel missile with simplified usability dubbed the Corps Support Weapon System (CSWS). In a year, concerned about the fact Army started to develop the weapon with a similar objectives to interdict the [[second-echelon]] massed targets to already developing by [[USAF]]'s Conventional Standoff Weapon (CSW) program with only difference of surface/air-launched and both positioned as the part of same Short Range Nuclear Forces of Non-Strategic Nuclear Force Program, the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] subdued CSWS Project Office (Provisional) to [[MICOM]] renaming it to the System Development Office. That new office acquired the [[Assault Breaker]] effort thus started to manage the Assault Breaker and CSWS efforts together, that way slowly summing up and moving forward the weapon development progress for the JTACMS program to be сreated.<ref name="history.redstone.army.mil">{{Cite web |title=The United States Army |url=https://history.redstone.army.mil/miss-tacms.html |access-date=15 September 2024 |website=history.redstone.army.mil |archive-date=6 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306212751/http://history.redstone.army.mil/miss-tacms.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Google books|oB8UilYjO2wC|Defense Department Authorization and Oversight: Research, development, test, and evaluation.&nbsp;United States,&nbsp;U.S. Government Printing Office,&nbsp;1983.|page=158|keywords="Conventional Standoff Weapon"}}</ref>