The increasing mission time for airborne operations in high-risk areas heightens the possibility of some kind of mid-air collision with the MQ-4C Triton and an enemy aircraft.
The chief of naval operations and commandant of the Marine Corps say they are increasingly clear on how they’d want to fight a peer adversary, what attributes would make their forces successful and what platforms they need to equip that force. Now, they just need help from Congress turning that into a budget everyone can […]
Beneath the more visible surface of the
USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carriers’ continued journey to deployment, there appears to be a concurrent and highly impactful, yet more narrowly focused or specific developmental trajectory lurking below the radar: increasing the Ford-class’ expanding role as an armed warship capable of engaging in heavy maritime combat.
Beneath the more visible surface of the
USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carriers’ continued journey to deployment, there appears to be a concurrent and highly impactful, yet more narrowly focused or specific developmental trajectory lurking below the radar: increasing the Ford-class’ expanding role as an armed warship capable of engaging in heavy maritime combat.
The U.S. military must avoid being on the wrong side of the cost-exchange ratio if it hopes to prevail in future conflict. Improvised explosive devices such as these, found in Baghdad in 2005, cost little to make but cost the U.S. billions in personnel and equipment losses.
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Networked and Deadly: Why the Navy’s SM-6 Missile Matters
This weapon, when integrated with the Navy’s Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air system, poses a potent threat to enemy warships and weapons.
The Navy’s ongoing Pacific Fleet maritime warfare assessments continue to break new ground with the use of manned-unmanned systems integration to strike targets at previously unreachable ranges, demonstrating emerging technology which shows both offensive and defensive maritime combat power possibilities.
A long-range SM-6 missile was launched from a destroyer to eliminate what a Navy report calls a “long-range target” during a series of ongoing events aimed at evolving new paradigms for manned-unmanned systems maritime warfare. Both drones and manned platforms established a “track for the launch,” a Navy essay explains.