Thursday, February 11, 2021

China already crushes the US Navy when it comes to battle force ships...

 

Canadian Army Armor with enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia

 

CAF members deployed on #OpREASSURANCE with enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia run a range for the Bison armoured personnel carriers at Camp Adazi, Latvia.

The F-15EX could match the F-35 in sensor fusion...only displays keep it from doing so...

 via War On The Rocks

The modern F-15E shows how neatly compartmentalizing fighters into “generations” can be misleading and subconsciously shape our perceptions. Consider the fifth-generation F-35’s much-lauded sensor fusion. This is enabled by computing power, software, sensors, and algorithms; all items with high potential to scale to other platforms — and they have. Despite the hype, the reality is that almost all current fighters have had some form of sensor fusion for the better part of a decade. In fact, the newest, largest, and most capable radar and the highest computing power on a U.S. aircraft aren’t on a fifth-generation fighter — they’re on the F-15E.


In the time I’ve flown the F-15E I’ve seen it progress through seven major operational software updates (called suites) and various hardware upgrades, each more integrated and potent than the last. When the next software upgrade arrives it will have even more sensors and hardware. In fact, the only limitation keeping it from achieving sensor fusion on par with the F-35 is its cockpit displays. As an example of how sequestration and funding instability drive incoherent budget choices, nearly $12 billion in aforementioned F-15E sensor upgrades are still stubbornly pushed through 1980s displays that use cathode-ray tubes to produce low-quality analog video that aren’t even all color, let alone digital, touchscreen, or high-resolution. The impressive F-35 cockpit has all of this, and that makes all the difference. The F-15EX enhanced cockpit displays mirror the newest displays coming to both F/A-18 Block III and F-35 Block 4, mostly because they are all made by the same company.

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USS Ohio joint operations with Force Recon Marines


Wow.

I hope Force Recon is hitting something mighty important to risk a nuclear sub in this fashion.

Weird too.  What's the new mantra?  To be seen is to be killed.  If you surface a sub and then you have Force Recon using rubber raiders to board it then it might be noticed if its a peer competitor don't you think (and since the USMC is a one region/one foe force now we know who I'm talking about)?

Commanders are flailing all over the FMF to make Berger smile. 

It's all bullshit.

Mass Casualties from big rigs smashing cars in Dallas...

Leopards from Poland's 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade in winter