Navy's Next Generation Strike Capability

[sferrin]

So why is he not having a gun compete for the OsUW capability that wants to field something to replace the Harpoon by 2024? And as far as I know LRASM-A can perform in a GPS denied environment.

If LRASM can function in Denied great so could T -4 while another faster missile is developed. Stealth as it stands is of questionable value vs evolution of UV/IR as well advcd radar.

That's like saying if an F-22 can operate in denied airspace so can the F-15 because of hand-wavey technology. And stealth is of questionable value? You'll want to alert the world's militaries because they apparently aren't as smart as you,

 

[jsport]

So why is he not having a gun compete for the OsUW capability that wants to field something to replace the Harpoon by 2024? And as far as I know LRASM-A can perform in a GPS denied environment.

If LRASM can function in Denied great so could T -4 while another faster missile is developed. Stealth as it stands is of questionable value vs evolution of UV/IR as well advcd radar.

That's like saying if an F-22 can operate in denied airspace so can the F-15 because of hand-wavey technology. And stealth is of questionable value? You'll want to alert the world's militaries because they apparently aren't as smart as you,

none of above is even worth addressing.

 

[sferrin]

So why is he not having a gun compete for the OsUW capability that wants to field something to replace the Harpoon by 2024? And as far as I know LRASM-A can perform in a GPS denied environment.

If LRASM can function in Denied great so could T -4 while another faster missile is developed. Stealth as it stands is of questionable value vs evolution of UV/IR as well advcd radar.

That's like saying if an F-22 can operate in denied airspace so can the F-15 because of hand-wavey technology. And stealth is of questionable value? You'll want to alert the world's militaries because they apparently aren't as smart as you,

none of above is even worth addressing.

What could you possibly say? : Most of your so-called "points" are of the grade-school variety, demonstrating little understanding of the topic you're posting in. Now I remember why I had you on ignore.

 

[Moose]

Does the Navy still intend to have a Next-Generation Land Attack Weapon competition to replace or supplement Tomahawk?

Ideally, yes, but there has been considerable resistance on Cap Hill to the end of Tomahawk buys. Since that's is where the Navy was finding a chunk of the money to develop their next-step missile, it seems they're falling back to a "what can we do with the missiles we have?" plan. Which is why the "Tomahawk vs LRASM" and "SM-6 ASuW variant/spinoff" talk suddenly picked up. The hypersonic weapon would have to wait for the DARPA/AF/Joint programs to produce something the Navy could buy into.

 

[jsport]

Does the Navy still intend to have a Next-Generation Land Attack Weapon competition to replace or supplement Tomahawk?

Ideally, yes, but there has been considerable resistance on Cap Hill to the end of Tomahawk buys. Since that's is where the Navy was finding a chunk of the money to develop their next-step missile, it seems they're falling back to a "what can we do with the missiles we have?" plan. Which is why the "Tomahawk vs LRASM" and "SM-6 ASuW variant/spinoff" talk suddenly picked up. The hypersonic weapon would have to wait for the DARPA/AF/Joint programs to produce something the Navy could buy into.

Issue is ship defense and overall ballistic defense as well as offense are increasingly overlapping and possibily untenable.

“Not only is it unaffordable, it will not work,” Adm. Bill Gortney said. “We are going to lose this fight on our current strategy.”....“We’ve made incredible strides in missile defense,” acknowledged Gortney, who heads both NORAD and US Northern Command (NORTHCOM). But no matter how good our interceptors are, he said, we’ll never have enough of these expensive systems to shoot down every cheap incoming missile.

(Gortney is not the first senior commander to call the current missile defense approach untenable. Outgoing Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert wrote former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in November last year that the US needed to do a reassessment of our missile defense approach.)

http://breakingdefense.com/2015/08/depsecdef-launches-new-missile-defense-approach/

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/russia-china-arms-race-goes-hypersonic-weapons-future-121230.html

 

[sferrin]

Does the Navy still intend to have a Next-Generation Land Attack Weapon competition to replace or supplement Tomahawk?

Ideally, yes, but there has been considerable resistance on Cap Hill to the end of Tomahawk buys. Since that's is where the Navy was finding a chunk of the money to develop their next-step missile, it seems they're falling back to a "what can we do with the missiles we have?" plan. Which is why the "Tomahawk vs LRASM" and "SM-6 ASuW variant/spinoff" talk suddenly picked up. The hypersonic weapon would have to wait for the DARPA/AF/Joint programs to produce something the Navy could buy into.

Politicians will be the death of us all.

 

[bobbymike]

The New and Improved Tomahawk Missile Now Runs on Corn

The new fuel blend uses feedstocks instead of petroleum in an effort to limit the military's dependence on fossil fuels.

www.popularmechanics.com

 

[TomS]

The New and Improved Tomahawk Missile Now Runs on Corn

The new fuel blend uses feedstocks instead of petroleum in an effort to limit the military's dependence on fossil fuels.

www.popularmechanics.com

Popular Science reporters (and the press release writer) need more science background. A feedstock is any input into an industrial process. Petroleum refining talks about petrochemical feedstocks all the time. The key word in the actual research paper is "renewable."