Naval Digital Cum-By-Ya: Will it Save Vulnerable Surface Ships?

This video shows the delusions of the RMA fanatics that somehow if everyone holds everyone else's hand PHYSICAL weakness can be wished away by a MENTAL fantasy? A conglomeration of weak, vulnerable surface ships each with a sensor picture that is weak will not create the long-range outer defensive circle needed to thwart the enemy from raining hundreds of precision guided munitions (PGMs) upon them. "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link"--if all the links are weak, the whole chain is exceedingly weak. The recent sinking of the South Korean Anti-Submarine (!) Warfare ship, the ROKS Cheonan from reportedly an ENEMY SUBMARINE'S TORPEDO while participating in one of these cum-by-ya digital exercises with the U.S. highlights this digital absurdity:

http://www.combatreform.org/theendofflimsysurfaceships.htm

It's not like we haven't been warned...in 1947 British Army Lieutenant General Francis Tuker said:

"The future of war is airborne and not seaborne. The late war, elementary as it has been, has shown clearly that Sea Power cannot live in the same war world as Air Power. If any nation goes to war with its transport and its forces designed to run along the surface of the seas, it will die and will die for ever."

Read more here:

http://www.combatreform.org/thepatternofwar.htm

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• naval
• warfare
• digital
• madness
• rma
• pgms
• anti-ship
• missiles
• falklands
• war
• cheonan
• sinking
• asw
• submarines

[Fedaykin24]

So you know more then the Royal navy about ASW?!

The ROKS Cheonan was operating in very tight shallow waters with lots of transients making detection of a small submarine very difficult.

The Cheonan is not a RN Type 23 with 2087 sonar and Merlin HM1 helicopter with AQS-950 dipping sonar, Type 23 and Merlin are regarded as the best ASW solution in the world!

Finally ships are needed to get all heavy equipment to theatre, without a proper navy your country has a defence force!

[dynmicpara]

@Fedaykin24 I don't think being "best" in the world is GOOD ENOUGH. ASW has to be able to thwart submarine attack and right now everything on the surface is a "target" to the subs. Helos don't have the range and on-station time to create an outer protective circle; we need cat-launched, fixed-wing seaplanes. If we don't win the ASW fight you can kiss goodbye any USMC landings; hence we should disband them since they refuse to leave their bloated ship racket

[Christian121y]

@superwout

Haha that's cold.

But it's true that the threat you LEAST expect comes to punch you int he face.

[superwout]

Shouldn't they put more sentries out on deck day and night so to see the fishingboat with the ODD looking crew coming ( USS COLE ... ) instead of piling up computers on every hull to maybe defeat a one in a million threat only after 15 years of trials and working out all glitches and bugs

[BlacktailDefense]

I wish I could have been at that conference to ask; "How will this system help keep the ships afloat, if they're hit by sea-skimming missiles?"

[colddrake80]

What surprises me is they make no mention of helicopter mounted radar which has much greater range by virtue of the altitudes they can achieve.

[WolfSaintSnake]

Again another great vid by you. The idea of war is to resist at all levels. To be a maneuver warfare expert in favorable open terrain, but also a slugfest expert in close terrain. And then have a third level of resistance at the unconventional and extraordinary warfare level. The fact is that the days of big warships and bigger aircraft carriers is over.

The future belongs to smaller quieter electric submarines in larger numbers and at 1/10th the current cost.