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posted by Fnord666 on Friday November 08 2019, @07:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the ghost-ships dept.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29505/the-navys-secretive-nemesis-electronic-warfare-capability-will-change-naval-combat-forever

NEMESIS is not just some 'paper program.' From publicly available, but obscure documents we've collected, it's clear that, for years, the Navy has been developing and integrating multiple types of unmanned vehicles, shipboard and submarine systems, countermeasures and electronic warfare payloads, and communication technologies to give it the ability to project what is, in essence, phantom fleets of aircraft, ships, and submarines. These realistic-looking false signatures and decoys have the ability to appear seamlessly across disparate and geographically separated enemy sensor systems located both above and below the ocean's surface. As a result, this networked and cooperative electronic warfare concept brings an unprecedented level of guileful fidelity to the fight. It's not just about disrupting the enemy's capabilities or confusing them at a command and control level, but also about making their sensors tell them the same falsehoods across large swathes of the battlespace.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by DutchUncle on Friday November 08 2019, @08:04PM (2 children)

    by DutchUncle (5370) on Friday November 08 2019, @08:04PM (#918002)

    .... are from Sun Tzu 2500 years ago:

    Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

    All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

    Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all; amid confusion and chaos, your array may be without head or tail, yet it will be proof against defeat.

    Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions. Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to which the enemy will act.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday November 08 2019, @08:24PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday November 08 2019, @08:24PM (#918011) Journal

    we must seem unable

    Is that the contractors' new sales pitch? [rollcall.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday November 11 2019, @09:07AM

    by Bot (3902) on Monday November 11 2019, @09:07AM (#918873) Journal

    Well the F35 is a good way to let the world NOT know what the USAF is capable of.

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