Search: USA,Armed forces (4 materials)

The Navy of the Future: Classics, Science-Fiction, Contractors

... decision-making time to negligible values. The key projects in this area are implemented under the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) programme, which is geared towards uniting all the detection and target acquisition systems employed across the U.S. Armed Forces into a single network. Cross-branch interoperation capabilities have been traditionally limited due to the differences in architecture of existing control systems. Establishing the chain of command, coordinating plans and assigning tasks ...

11.02.2021

Conquering the Emptiness: A New Stage in the Militarization of Outer Space

... space forces have always enjoyed a relatively high degree of autonomy. It has reported directly to the General Staff of the Armed Forces since the 1980s, and in the 1990s and in the 2000s, it existed as a separate branch of the military. Currently, however,... ... flyovers over the targets), the U.S. Space Force plans to build a multi-layered “national” constellation of more than one thousand satellites that will handle the tasks of communication, missile defence, missile attack warning [ 3 ], intelligence (with ...

09.02.2021

The Army and Air Force of the Future

... some promising pilot projects in this field. Vehicles of the Kurganets and Boomerang families raise a number of concerns, chiefly due to the obvious delay in putting them into production and the resulting lag behind the key adversaries in equipping the armed forces. Alexander Yermakov: From Tanks and Deserts to Missiles and Tropical Islands However, there is one area where Russia definitely leads the pack, and that is in the development of the first real new-generation tank. Heavy APCs from the Armata ...

28.01.2021

To Sequestrate, or Not to Sequestrate. The Impact of Covid-19 on Military Budgets

... latter will practically stop the procurement of new equipment and in some cases be forced to make substantial reductions in the armed forces; the former will consider the military industry, first of all, in the context of saving their own economies, which ... ... reduced production volumes, and the slow-down of expensive and promising R&D, which in early stages mainly generates costs. The USA: More Money for Each and Every One! U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Russ Scalf CC BY-NC 2.0 The U.S. behavior in financing ...

09.04.2020

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