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Fading Signal: The Neglect of Electronic Warfare.
On Apr 8, 6:36 am, Eunometic wrote:
On Feb 16, 7:37 am, Mike wrote: Fading Signal: The Neglect of Electronic Warfare. Lexington Institute.http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1223.shtml When you consider how much money Americans spend on defense -- about $4 trillion so far in this decade alone -- it's amazing what a poor job we do of maintaining our military arsenal. In the years since the cold war ended, the Navy's fleet has shrunk by half to fewer than 300 ships, the Air Force's planes have "matured" to twice the age of the commercial airline fleet, and the Army has largely abandoned the production of heavy armored vehicles. There's a simple reason for all these signs of military decay: the threat went away. No peer adversary has taken the place of the Red Army or the Imperial Navy. I note that the USN Grumman EA-6B is being used to create a jammed space around ground US patrols in Iraq. The jamming prevents the detonation of improvised explosive devices. Presumably highly directional electronically shaped antenna create temporal grace around the patrol. The USAF apparently can't do this mission due to the degradation of this type of aircraft. The money is going into the occupation of Iraq. Eventually advanced tech will be needed, maybe to protect Taiwan for a little longer from a rapidly empowering China. http://icasualties.org/oif/IED.aspx IED Deaths by month, 1746 to April 1, 4024 total U.S. deaths, equal 43% of all dead are victims of IEDs. No number on wounded, but the given ratio is 16 wounded for each death. ie about 28k |
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