Important tactics in UAVs. If UAVs like Predator are used with the new tactics used by turks, there will be a big tactical difference. Instead of flying 4 UAVs at the same time, it is necessary to fly 30 UAVs at the same time. A drone with only a camera, no payload and no weapons will be sent as bait. The air defense system will reveal its location as soon as it hits. A different UAV will detect the location from 30 km away and make laser marking. Other drones will fire the missile from 30 km away. The drones used in these tactics must be drones such as MQ9. Another issue is that the rapid and effective use of space guided missiles such as Tomahawk in the field is gaining importance day by day. A unit must be able to call for a tomahawk just like a simple missile support, and there is no need to seek any rank for this. The Russians give their troops freedom in this regard and want guided missiles that will hit exactly when they are stuck in the field. A missile is instantly launched from a ship in the Black Sea and the target is hit within minutes. Instead of just targeting targets like airports and major infrastructures, you need to rearrange your tomahawk stocks so that even your lowest units can use them.
Why is the Army sticking to 100-120 km? Cheap domestically-produced diesels burn less than 350 g/kWh, some are under 250. Gliders (basically the same wing and fuselage as a Predator) deliver L/D > 30, and every propeller is better than 50% efficient. So if half your takeoff weight is fuel, you have over 10,000 km range. That's enough to get from Guam to the Taiwan Strait, hang out for 24 hours, and then fly back to Guam. These are commercial diesels, 10k hours life with filter and fluid checks every hundred hours. As for cost, custom yachts are built for $50/kg and wind turbine blades are built for under $10/kg. Those domestic diesels are under $50/kg, the avionics to fly a drone cost a couple hundred dollars, a StarLink antenna is under $1000, and a Mk-82 is $17/kg. So a 2000 kg drone carrying a 500 kg warhead capable of sinking a ship should cost under $100k when produced in numbers like a luxury sailing yacht, and you should be able to disperse 5,000 of them to Guam, Okinawa, and Luzon for $1B, and maintain 100 in the air over the Taiwan Strait all the time for $100m/year. The Taiwan embargo scenario plays out a lot differently when 5 times 500 kg of bang orbits directly over every Chinese naval and coast guard vessel attempting to enforce the embargo. THAT'S deterrence via show of force. Drones costing less than $1k are smashing $3m tanks in Ukraine. Drones costing $100k are smashing $100m ammo dumps in Russia. The guys building those drones don't care about Pentagon procurement procedures, they care about the tanks coming to blow up their houses, so they are building stuff Right Now with commercial parts. And they are succeeding! How much value is the Pentagon procurement system adding, at what cost? General Rainey says that artillery is still the leading cause of casualties, just like for the last 200 years. That may be true among Ukrainian soldiers because Russia has so much artillery. But among Russian soldiers, it may not be true any more.
Why is the military struggling so hard to limit the number of vendors as compared to the plethora we had in WWII? This plan is not likely to survive contact with the enemy. We are already struggling with production capacity because we have limited the final numbers of contractors and manufacturers. The profits are in long term production, and that's how innovators recoup their losses.
Confratulations to the Army, BTW, on the NGSW. You could have just used the .270win cartridge in a bullpup, but maybe you'll save a little brass with the new butt end. It sure beats plastic. I guess telescoping ammo isn't biodegradable.
I served my country in military, lead combat operations as a commander, but i never heard future command, what does that means? When will they operates? CSIS sometimes is surprising.
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Important tactics in UAVs. If UAVs like Predator are used with the new tactics used by turks, there will be a big tactical difference. Instead of flying 4 UAVs at the same time, it is necessary to fly 30 UAVs at the same time. A drone with only a camera, no payload and no weapons will be sent as bait. The air defense system will reveal its location as soon as it hits. A different UAV will detect the location from 30 km away and make laser marking. Other drones will fire the missile from 30 km away. The drones used in these tactics must be drones such as MQ9.
Another issue is that the rapid and effective use of space guided missiles such as Tomahawk in the field is gaining importance day by day. A unit must be able to call for a tomahawk just like a simple missile support, and there is no need to seek any rank for this. The Russians give their troops freedom in this regard and want guided missiles that will hit exactly when they are stuck in the field. A missile is instantly launched from a ship in the Black Sea and the target is hit within minutes. Instead of just targeting targets like airports and major infrastructures, you need to rearrange your tomahawk stocks so that even your lowest units can use them.
Good stuff, thank you
Why is the Army sticking to 100-120 km? Cheap domestically-produced diesels burn less than 350 g/kWh, some are under 250. Gliders (basically the same wing and fuselage as a Predator) deliver L/D > 30, and every propeller is better than 50% efficient. So if half your takeoff weight is fuel, you have over 10,000 km range. That's enough to get from Guam to the Taiwan Strait, hang out for 24 hours, and then fly back to Guam. These are commercial diesels, 10k hours life with filter and fluid checks every hundred hours.
As for cost, custom yachts are built for $50/kg and wind turbine blades are built for under $10/kg. Those domestic diesels are under $50/kg, the avionics to fly a drone cost a couple hundred dollars, a StarLink antenna is under $1000, and a Mk-82 is $17/kg. So a 2000 kg drone carrying a 500 kg warhead capable of sinking a ship should cost under $100k when produced in numbers like a luxury sailing yacht, and you should be able to disperse 5,000 of them to Guam, Okinawa, and Luzon for $1B, and maintain 100 in the air over the Taiwan Strait all the time for $100m/year.
The Taiwan embargo scenario plays out a lot differently when 5 times 500 kg of bang orbits directly over every Chinese naval and coast guard vessel attempting to enforce the embargo. THAT'S deterrence via show of force.
Drones costing less than $1k are smashing $3m tanks in Ukraine. Drones costing $100k are smashing $100m ammo dumps in Russia. The guys building those drones don't care about Pentagon procurement procedures, they care about the tanks coming to blow up their houses, so they are building stuff Right Now with commercial parts. And they are succeeding! How much value is the Pentagon procurement system adding, at what cost?
General Rainey says that artillery is still the leading cause of casualties, just like for the last 200 years. That may be true among Ukrainian soldiers because Russia has so much artillery. But among Russian soldiers, it may not be true any more.
Why is the military struggling so hard to limit the number of vendors as compared to the plethora we had in WWII? This plan is not likely to survive contact with the enemy. We are already struggling with production capacity because we have limited the final numbers of contractors and manufacturers. The profits are in long term production, and that's how innovators recoup their losses.
Confratulations to the Army, BTW, on the NGSW. You could have just used the .270win cartridge in a bullpup, but maybe you'll save a little brass with the new butt end. It sure beats plastic. I guess telescoping ammo isn't biodegradable.
I served my country in military, lead combat operations as a commander, but i never heard future command, what does that means? When will they operates? CSIS sometimes is surprising.
The future ain't here yet, man. 🤠
Great day from dangrek mountain capital hill of Krung Preah Beida Sung Khmer-Thai. The only future dragonfly capital hill of Asia 🌏 that going to have the largest airport and airbase for Boeing and air force direct fly from all G7 countries members and Thailand Philippines Indonesia Myanmar and their people living up to 1 millions foreigners people and business and working and business and investing and largest theme park and biggest stadium for FIFA and largest shooting ranges and largest community products village in Asia 🌏 for future tourists destination more 5 millions people per year to visit our capital.
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