These drones will help Australia and America better keep track of Chinese submarines.
What if a Chinese attack submarine were to briefly surface near the coast of Taiwan or in close proximity to U.S. and allied surface ships operating near the South China Sea? Worse, what if a U.S. Navy Poseidon submarine-hunting surveillance plane simply was not in the vicinity or able to capture the threat? Are there enough U.S. and allied intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets, spread widely across thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean, to sufficiently monitor these kinds of threat circumstances? Some U.S. military leaders may not be entirely sure, which is why there is a consistent chorus among U.S. commanders about the “insatiable” desire for ISR in the form of drones, surface reconnaissance assets, space sensors and surveillance planes.
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Navy to Field Early ‘Project Overmatch’ Battle Network on Theodore Roosevelt CSG in 2023
February 10, 2021 9:24 AM
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) transits the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 18, 2020. US Navy Photo
This post has been updated to clarify remarks made by Rear Adm. Doug Small.
The Navy envisions a future fleet with manned and unmanned ships, submarines and aircraft operating in a dispersed manner and collecting a ton of data to fill in a common operating picture – which operational commanders could then use to, if ever needed, have the best sensor platform send targeting data to the best shooter to attack an enemy. That entire vision, though, would require a robust network that could withstand an enemy cyberattack; that could have enough bandwidth to manage video, voice, and targeting data coming and going; and could present a