tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post6920050648165364145..comments2024-03-28T18:32:43.699-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: How technology is changing battlefield surveillancePeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-7502625925136384412018-02-14T09:17:36.781-06:002018-02-14T09:17:36.781-06:00They've been kicking around the idea of retiri...They've been kicking around the idea of retiring JSTARS for at least a decade now maybe even back before that. I'm surprised it's managed to stay this long.<br /><br />Warfare is going to change dramatically in the next few years and you'll probably see lots of legacy platforms being retired and oddly enough a few pulled out of mothballs. The A-10 is sadly not going to continue unless congress holds a gun to the air force's head. When the new B-21 production ramps up look for the B-1B and the B-2 to be sent to an early retirement. It wouldn't surprise me to see F-15Es sent to pasture either. Harriers are going obviously. If the Navy gets a new frigate and even if not the LCS likely gets a well deserved trip to the dock. The Coast Guard might pick them up as well as try to pull a couple old Perry class frigates out of mothballs. Both would be fine for their purposes. Look for the current Zumwalt destroyers to be decommissioned and the program cancelled. The current vessels are a de-nutted clustercopulation and not the ship envisioned or promised.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-85464813889819512342018-02-14T08:31:20.150-06:002018-02-14T08:31:20.150-06:00OK. Now I get your definition of "Big". ...OK. Now I get your definition of "Big". Yep. I don't *like* the logic, but I follow it.<br /><br />Thanks.<br />shugyoshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437800091500543886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-24608616359256804782018-02-14T05:46:19.647-06:002018-02-14T05:46:19.647-06:00The entire military, top to bottom, relies on elec...The entire military, top to bottom, relies on electronics for <i>everything</i>. Intel, surveillance, force management, communication, navigation, etc.<br /><br />Anyone who tries to blind and hamstring the whole force using high-altitude nukes has already crossed the nuclear threshold, necessitating a commensurate reply, and is sucking around to get the mother of all wallopings.<br /><br />If that attack also renders much of the civilian infrastructure to toast, that would only give an even bigger reason to turn the offending party's total real estate into hot glass in less time than it takes Dominoes to deliver a pizza.<br /><br />And will get just exactly that.<br /><br />An EMP kill of the US power grid is conservatively estimated to cause 50-200M casualties from hunger, famine, disease, and starvation, six months out from any such strike.<br /><br />Expect the National Command Authority to respond to that sort of thing by taking out every living thing down to field mice in the offender's territory, and then bouncing the rubble a few times just to be certain, and a lot sooner than six months' time.<br /><br />We'd also likely put every other country on the planet on notice that any shenanigans whatsoever directed our way from that point onward would receive a similar response.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-26613729944795674852018-02-14T05:22:21.956-06:002018-02-14T05:22:21.956-06:00Aesop,
excuse my ignorance. Why? Big EMD -> nu...Aesop,<br /><br />excuse my ignorance. Why? Big EMD -> nuclear ? And what is "big" in EMD?<br /><br />Sorry. Take care.shugyoshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437800091500543886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-79465527099034374092018-02-14T04:09:50.166-06:002018-02-14T04:09:50.166-06:00technology has made radio sensors more sensitive s...technology has made radio sensors more sensitive so to get the same capability you can use smaller antennas.<br /><br />But bigger antennas still provide more reception than smaller ones (using the same electronics)<br /><br />Even if you can have every aircraft pooling the results of their radar sweeps, you really don't want them broadcasting, as that makes it much easier to detect them.<br /><br />I'm not saying that one way is clearly right, I am saying that neither is obviously wrongUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084309137541367977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-15953014380450869552018-02-13T18:05:56.228-06:002018-02-13T18:05:56.228-06:00Moore's Law has consequences, one of them bein...Moore's Law has consequences, one of them being that you don't need a giant array and the brute force computing of '80s tech to get the necessary data anymore.<br /><br />Also, the first side to try a massive EMP strike to gain a tactical advantage will be on the receiving end of about 2000MT of first-strike response. That's not a genie whose bottle you want to pull the cork from.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-24012727576746402612018-02-13T10:43:27.371-06:002018-02-13T10:43:27.371-06:00Well, nice, but... what happens when communication...Well, nice, but... what happens when communication fails? By environment or by enemy action?<br /><br />Also... I've been wondering. Can you get the *precise* location of a sensor and then do the same trick they use with radio telescopes when using smaller, distant antennas?<br /><br />Take care.shugyoshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437800091500543886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-36942352988543040462018-02-13T08:57:01.087-06:002018-02-13T08:57:01.087-06:00Sadly, the goal of the network of distributed sens...Sadly, the goal of the network of distributed sensor systems will soon be overwhelmed by the 'need' to spend 99% of the funds on writing the code that fuses all that sensor data. That's been the pattern over the last 30 years. There will only be a handful of old obsolete sensors and any attempt to add new technology to the sensor end will be overwhelmed by a tidal wave of negativity from the program office who is going to respond that they cannot keep programming additional sensor data packets.HMS Defianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-9768362362381088542018-02-13T08:18:00.344-06:002018-02-13T08:18:00.344-06:00The issue always has been, and always will be MIL ...The issue always has been, and always will be MIL for weapons release... That will never be fully automated by a US administration... Sigh...Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-15572943327231290212018-02-13T07:06:30.584-06:002018-02-13T07:06:30.584-06:00So the military is beginning to commit to distribu...So the military is <i>beginning</i> to commit to distributed data collection and management. Took long enough. <br /><br />Welcome to the party, fellas. Pretty soon you'll discover the value of autonomous tools and processes for that as well. How well that will work with a fleet of 39 ships and 120 airplanes, I dunno, but those are budget, training and personnel issues; maybe you can study that next. Alphonsenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-20511368205649412102018-02-13T07:01:14.752-06:002018-02-13T07:01:14.752-06:003 EMP detonations at the right altitude would wipe...3 EMP detonations at the right altitude would wipe out all eletronics on earth, except the most hardened and then we will be in the stone age.RobChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07495024548913451231noreply@blogger.com