[RoosterRedux]

Here's an interesting article that explains why the above is important...

What is A2/AD [anti-access/area denial]?

From the article: "China’s A2/AD uses “a series of interrelated missile, sensor, guidance, and other technologies designed to deny freedom of movement” to keep any potential adversaries, including the United States, from intervening in a conflict off of China’s coast or from attacking the Chinese mainland."

[eartick]

I guess Al Gore can take credit for this too

[Wonder Warthog]

Terminator-Day edges closer.

[rlmorel]

I was just talking about this at Thanksgiving Dinner yesterday...:)

Normally I don’t politics if I go to someone else’s house, but if it is in MY house, well...if people seem willing, I am. And someone brought it up, so I was good to go!

I talked about this very thing and wondered why there wasn’t an airborne platform?

[rlmorel]

Ah. I should have read first. I thought this was the ADS (Area Denial System or Active Denial System) that is used for crowd control as explained at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzG4oEutPbA

[rlmorel]

Upon reading it, I had to conclude it is the equivalent of network-centric warfare, much like what we do with our platforms equipped with Aegis, JSTARS, drones, E-2/E-3 systems, and what makes the F-35 far more lethal with those capabilities than it will ever be as a combat dogfighting platform.

Basically using a variety of sensors tied into systems that can correlate it and use AI to flag patterns and present it to decision-makers.

[Jumper]

I remember in 1975 taking combat unit resupply training for my infantry unit in the 82d Abn Div which would require a computer monitor, keyboard and “modem” that processed about one baud - we were supposed to do causality, supply requests, personnel replacements, etc. using the very very slow one character at a time transmission. Times have certainly changed - pretty soon our infantry will not only have attack robots and spiders.....

[Rockingham]

The larger context is that US military computer simulations and air combat exercises have demonstrated remarkable new combat capabilities through the combination of stealth and the new networking and information display technologies used in the F-35. A potential vulnerability though lies in the risk of detection of or interference with the high bandwidth signals that are currently relied on. The remedy then is to develop low bandwidth communications and provide AI capabilities for both manned and unmanned aircraft.