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posted by on Wednesday February 22 2017, @11:42PM   Printer-friendly
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The Army and Navy must link their missile defense systems into a single network so Navy weapons can hit targets spotted by Army radars and vice versa, the chief of Pacific Command said today. That's a daunting technical task, but if surmounted, it could dramatically improve defense against North Korean, Chinese, or Russian missile salvos.

"I believe that Army missileers should incorporate their air defense systems into the Navy's integrated fire control – counter-air, or NIFC-CA, architecture," Adm. Harry Harris told the AFCEA West convention here.

"I want them to be able to deliver a missile on target, and I want them to be able to do it interchangeably," Harris elaborated to reporters afterwards. "In other words, I want the Navy to be able to do the sensing and the Army to do the shooting, or the Army to do the sensing and the Navy to do the shooting." A Navy E-2D Hawkeye radar plane might spot an incoming missile for a land-based Army Patriot battery, for example, or an Army AN/TPY-2 radar might send targeting data to an Aegis destroyer.

[...] Harris is equally excited about other applications of computer networks to warfare, particularly robotics. At the Super Bowl, "300 quad copters put on light show as an opening act for Lady Gaga — who was terrific by the way," Harris told AFCEA. "What interests me in these examples is not the drones per se, or even Lady Gaga, for that matter. What interests me is the network that allows a hundred drones or more to fly in formation, to receive new orders, and to report back. That, said there's a dark side(:) As soon as we figure out how to do this, someone else will try to hack into it."

To help make these visions reality, Harris encouraged the technologists in the audience to pitch their innovations to the Pentagon — not necessarily to his headquarters in Hawaii. "My wallet really is small. The combatant commanders don't buy stuff except in specialized areas," he told AFCEA. "You have to, at the end of the day, pitch it to the services, (to) acquisition folks at the various service secretariats and OSD (Office of the Secretary of Defense). The combatant commanders can help pull, but you have to push."

Source: Breaking Defense


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @12:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @12:35AM (#470532)

    Nothing the americans do is for peace. They want to start nuclear wars and WW3 is on its way. What will happen afterwards is anybody's guess.

    What the world needs today is quick death penalty for anyone who proposes war as a solution for anything. First these people create problems then propose their solution to the problem. The end-result is that these people win and we all lose.

    The creatures looking for WW3 need to be put out of their misery.

    it could dramatically improve defense against North Korean, Chinese, or Russian missile salvos

    Screw you!!!

    None of those countries is looking to send "salvos" against you or anyone. The problem is you.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @12:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @12:50AM (#470535)

    War is the hygiene of the world.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @07:22AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @07:22AM (#470636)

      War is the hygiene of the world.

      More like a plague. In the next war, those who die will be counted the lucky ones.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday February 23 2017, @01:26AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday February 23 2017, @01:26AM (#470549)

    Designing advanced weapons can't be outsourced... Keeping people scared of impotent enemies supports US jobs programs.

    Also, if you want to fly lots of drones safely, don't reinvent the wheel, ask the video games guys: Quite a few years back, Supreme Commander 2 already had some pretty impressive routing/avoidance code even in very crowded areas.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by driven on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:15AM

    by driven (6295) on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:15AM (#470576)

    "They want to start nuclear wars and WW3 is on its way"

    The USA and Russia have been reducing their respective nuclear stockpiles for many years [fas.org].
    If either really _wanted_ a nuclear war we'd have had one a long time ago. The fact that we haven't had a nuclear war yet sure isn't due to a lack of nuclear bombs - humanity can still blow up the entire world many times over with what it has.

    As for WW3, well, I hope you're wrong.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by linkdude64 on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:21PM

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:21PM (#470723)

    "What the world needs today is quick death penalty for anyone who proposes war as a solution for anything. "

    I too am anti-war, and I agree! Let's go kill every single ISIS member and sympathizer - en masse!

    Actually that sounds pretty hard for just you and me to do, maybe we should ask the Army for help??

  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday February 23 2017, @04:22PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday February 23 2017, @04:22PM (#470752)

    None of those countries is looking to send "salvos" against you or anyone. The problem is you.

    So all those artillery pieces just north of the DMZ in Korea don't exist?

    Are you stupid?