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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

Reminds me of the multiple TLAM shootex events I was on in the northern mountains of Maine. The local terrain was purported to be very similar to strategic Russian target areas and the missile did optical map-terrain matching along with INS for navigation which in essence was totally independent of external nav sources. I was amazed at the capability at the time. OOD indeed!
 
Gaburieru said:
Eh, maybe the ELINT and EW limitations can be hardened and the range limitations overcome by the smart people over at Raytheon, or Lockheed. While I do think a lot of people are way out over their skis on the whole drone thing, it's not impossible that it has some logistical and cost advantages even if it's not the $25 TEMU terror that all of the opinionmakers want us to think it'll be. It's certainly not going to make any current tech obsolete, though. I was really just trying to guess how someone might make the most out of the funny coastie boat
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The problem is none of the people marketing or the leadership listening want to stop to talk about the ESM requirements and limitations in drone employment.

We keep running into this same problem with physics based modeling showing realistic performance for communications architecture that mirrors the “underperformance” of drones in the experimentations and exercises. Until people appreciate their is an electromagnetic portion of the combined operations overlay, they fail to understand that this translates as a robotic limit of advance. These things aren’t full autonomous unless we are prepared to put a lot more compute, power, and cost into them. That’s before we introduce the electromagnetic warfare component.

We used a physics based modeling tool to build the radio and receiver for the Altius600 and the Ghost before they were came into the exercise space. What we saw was what was happening, and fell way short of the promises from Anduril or the assumptions made by the ground force on their reconnaissance and security plan.

Attached is a bug squash from the program we were using (Mace/Armor). Effectively within the green the drone can send/recieve and outside that it loses link. Now you have an informed electronic maneuver space to wargame in based off the performance of the drone and its ground station.
 

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With all of the recent news of battleships, a fascinating new discussion with Ryan Szimansky of USS New Jersey. By destroying all of the old stock of 16” shells in 2016, what performance would a new 2,700 lb shell have? (quite a bit)

 
We're not making a 2,700 pound shell. I'm coining a new term... nostalgia-baiting. It's like click bait, but with more masturbation.
 
Randy Daytona said:
Looks like China is experimenting with this concept (and China has a 200 to 1 ratio in commercial shipbuilding capacity over the US):

Near the bow of the vessel, high-up mounted on above two containers, we see an Type 1130 30mm close-in-weapon system (CIWS) for last-ditch defense against incoming threats, especially cruise missiles. One container lower, on both sides, we see Type 726 decoy launchers mounted on top of another pair of containers...Then we get to the real eyebrow raiser, a deck literally covered with containerized vertical launchers. Installed five wide and three deep, each packing four large launch tubes, this arrangement gives the vessel a whopping 60 vertical large launch cells.

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Chinese Cargo Ship Packed Full Of Modular Missile Launchers Emerges

China has packed a deck of a medium-sized cargo ship with 60 containerized vertical launch cells, radar, and close-in weapons.
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Interesting update. Containers off, EMALS on.

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Chinese Cargo Ship Converted To Launch Advanced Combat Drones Emerges

China has reconfigured its medium cargo ship-turned improvised warship into a drone carrier, but just how realistic is what we are seeing?
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