and what happens when someone takes down our satellites and/or hack into them during WWIII?
What about that "network centric" battle space?Infantry and Tanks don't need satellites.
What about that "network centric" battle space?
What a bunch of hooey. I suppose now we no longer need human intel, boots on the ground.....gimme a break.
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I think we forgot how important the candy bar is to winning the end-game.The CIA said they didn't need those pesky prima-donna intelligence agents once they had satellites. Then came they day the satellite saw airliners flying into the World Trade Center.
Once they train the drone to land and walk down the street and knock on a door or listen when the kid can tell them something as happens with soldiers now....
So the CGI stuff seen on the Military & Discovery channel are future vaporware? Are you implying future soliders won't have a helmet mounted HUD with maps, orders, status updates and UAV video feeds overlayed over the outside world?Higher HQ buying into contractor dreams.
When the "digitization" fails, it's back to radios, pencils, and paper maps.
If radios don't work, send a runner.
(FWIW -- I was assigned to the Mounted Warfighting Battlespace Lab at Ft Knox in 1992 to work on "Battlespace integration")
So the CGI stuff seen on the Military & Discovery channel are future vaporware? Are you implying future soliders won't have a helmet mounted HUD with maps, orders, status updates and UAV video feeds overlayed over the outside world?
One thing that bugs me about UAVs & "digitization". Aren't we basically putting a homing beacon on everyone if everyone & everything has a computer maintaining a data link? I mean can't any decently equipped force modify a DF to the proper freq or even tweek anti-radar missiles?
But every training scenario includes "degraded mode" ops -- which means you need to shoot, move, and communicate using the most basic tools.
And pilots should take note - they should be prepared to navigate with a map, compass, clock and Steam ASI for when everything else quits.
Heh! It would be a little embarrassing to say, "I'm just a little bit past where I was when my GPS died", huh?
Can you even get a DF steer from Flight Service anymore?
Too bad they don't put town names on the roofs anymore, now you gotta go circle the water tower...and hope it's not some water district or sumthin' painted on the side. "RWD #3" isn't real helpful...
Trapper John