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

[number9]

I'm waiting for the "two way" munitions!

Remind me not to stand near you when you're testing them

 

[ChuckMK23]

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!

 

[Lawman]

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

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.

 

[sevenhelmet]

Do we need to redesignate TLAM to TLAOOD?

Quiet, you! Those staff FITREP bullets won’t write themselves!

 

[IKE]

Quiet, you! Those staff FITREP bullets won’t write themselves!

I was thinking we could go the other way and say Ukraine's been using MRLAMs -- Multi-rotor land attack missiles.

 

[WhiskeySierra6]

Quiet, you! Those staff FITREP bullets won’t write themselves!

Of you use GenAI they will.

 

[KODAK]

One way attack drone = “low cost cruise missile”