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by Miku the Based » Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:15 pm
by Hrstrovokia » Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:38 pm
by The Dolphin Isles » Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:11 pm
by Hrstrovokia » Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:22 pm
The Dolphin Isles wrote:Are there any serious projects by major military powers for smaller UAVs that deliver small munitions similar to quadcopters for the platoon/company level? Are they mainly just focusing on guided munitions like the spike that keeps being mentioned or with China's and America's "drone swarm" projects? I guess I am mainly thinking of stuff like the makeshift drones in the war in Syrian and I guess that Belarussian drone (although I know nothing about that project). It seems like a makeshift way to get a similar effect to airburst AGLs/GLs.
by Austrasien » Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:50 pm
The Dolphin Isles wrote:Are there any serious projects by major military powers for smaller UAVs that deliver small munitions similar to quadcopters for the platoon/company level? Are they mainly just focusing on guided munitions like the spike that keeps being mentioned or with China's and America's "drone swarm" projects? I guess I am mainly thinking of stuff like the makeshift drones in the war in Syrian and I guess that Belarussian drone (although I know nothing about that project). It seems like a makeshift way to get a similar effect to airburst AGLs/GLs.
by Shanghai industrial complex » Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:32 am
by Republic of Penguinian Astronautia » Thu Jan 21, 2021 11:02 am
Gallia- wrote:UAS should comprise the vast majority of vehicles/munitions in a unit. No one would do this IRL because it requires shaking off 20th century thinking about armies but it would be pretty big brained.
Something like this, which we can imaginatively call a "Regional Unit" or "RU":
Small Unit: 6-12 men with advanced sights, high performance cartridges and long range rifles, with a transport vehicle or two. Has a ROVER tablet (or two) for the FACs to receive sensor feeds from overhead Predator drones with GMTI radars and FLIRs. Can fly the drones if they want to give away their positions to enemy strategic ELINT I guess. Runs wires or has some sort of NLOS laser communications on one of their Humvees to talk to people. Gets parachuted out of planes. Drives around as the battle develops.
Artillery Unit: 150-200 men with cruise missiles, long range ballistic missiles, and a stealthy launch platform for long-range artillery. Maybe has its own internal UAS for targeting fired out of a VLS silo or out of a separate launch tube, and high gain SATCOM for receiving targeting data from the UAS (or piloting them).
Air Unit: 2,000-3,000 men that provides aviation support, including tactical fighters, OCA/DCA, and reconnaissance. Provides the MTI/FLIR drones that the Small Unit needs to see, and has a faster response time than the Artillery Unit. Maintains the smaller aircraft of a RU such as the liaison helicopters, CAS drones, and tac fighters. Probably has some means of providing "combat support" for a Small Unit by landing F-22s on roadside highways and arming/fueling them with MC-130s. Really 4-5 squadrons of good (F-22) fighters/drones with maybe a small transportation squadron for arming/refueling.
Support Unit: 3,000-5,000 men that supplies palletized ammunition, transportation by air or sea and materiel maintenance. Can also protect a theater or regional force from attacks using its innate defense capability. Also has medical evacuation capacity and a hospital. It's more a nerve center than an actual fighting unit, like a regional airbase or something, and so it would be pretty far away and talk to the frontline troops by satellite more or less.
A "RU" thus might comprise some 20-30 SmolUs, 2-3 AUs, 1-2 AirUs, and 1 SupU. Most of the SU firepower would be the 20-30 boxes of a dozen or two FOG-Ms that they get airdropped or whatever by the AirU and targeted by the constant robotic blanket of UAS that provides an all seeing electric eye for the SU. Deep artillery attacking airbases and railheads for enemy armored divisions comes from the AirU's strike-fighter components and AUs ballistic and cruise missiles.
I suppose ideally every SmolUs member is guiding 1-2 FOGMs at a target through his ROVER tablet, the AU is being given targeting coordinates by the SupU for hitting enemy artillery or w/e courtesy SBIRS-LO, and the AirU is keeping the skies clear and bombing things when it can, while also providing the SupU and SmolUs with GMTI it needs to attack stuff. Less "what unit has what drones" and more "who has compatible ground stations", because drones are functionally aircraft, so they should be as big like Grey Eagle and Reaper.
Cities are defeated with tactical nukes obviously. Or proxy forces used in the meat grinder.
This is FCS boiled down to its nuts and bolts more or less FWIW.
Anyway.
Since it's 2021 Dumbla has added some sort of stupid jet powered drone replacing the Dark Stars (but equally stupid looking, so I'll probably copy something like Okhotnik or a Chinese UAS) and XQ-58 probably muscling in on the Firebees. The 1990s rocket drone is also replaced by a KZO-ified Aerosonde.
by The Dolphin Isles » Thu Jan 21, 2021 11:22 am
by TPFII » Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:01 pm
by Manokan Republic » Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:12 pm
TPFII wrote:How bad would an early military pump action rifle be? It seems like bolt actions tended to be used instead of lever actions for more ergonomic use in the prone position, but why not pump action instead of bolt action? It seems like a pump action rifle would be particularly advantageous for my nation, tasked with protecting multiple islands of monsoonal rainforests, to be able to slam-fire the rifle and having a much faster rate of fire for close distance in brush, similar to trench warfare with the 1897.
by Manokan Republic » Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:18 pm
Miku the Based wrote:Give me a proper run down on how to properly track down and eliminate a sub, ship, plane, and human. Equipment required, tactics used, and caution and countermeasures needed. To counter anti-forensics and tracking measures etc.
by Dayganistan » Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:24 pm
TPFII wrote:How bad would an early military pump action rifle be? It seems like bolt actions tended to be used instead of lever actions for more ergonomic use in the prone position, but why not pump action instead of bolt action? It seems like a pump action rifle would be particularly advantageous for my nation, tasked with protecting multiple islands of monsoonal rainforests, to be able to slam-fire the rifle and having a much faster rate of fire for close distance in brush, similar to trench warfare with the 1897.
by The Corparation » Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:36 pm
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by Cossack Peoples » Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:44 pm
The Corparation wrote:Few know this but the USN has tested out incinerating submarines prior to deployment as a counter-forensics method. They even did it to a whole submarine back in 2012. It's a little known but theoretically very effective method of defeating enemy sonar. Supposedly the ship they trialed the process on remains invisible to enemy sonar to this day.
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by New Vihenia » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:13 pm
by Night Kingdoms » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:14 pm
New Vihenia wrote:So yeah, back in WW II there were digital computers..like Zuse, Harvard, ENIAC etc. They're big but good for what they are doing.
Now what if one among them can be installed onboard a battleship. I'm curious if it would be of an improvement over mechanical analog computer there, will that help in say making the gun more accurate or something else.
by New Vihenia » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:26 pm
Night Kingdoms wrote:Like on a MT battleship, or a battleship from the past?
by Night Kingdoms » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:29 pm
by Kassaran » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:51 pm
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"Put that down, Mr. Eric." He said. "She's obviously not a chicken."
by The Corparation » Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:37 pm
New Vihenia wrote:So yeah, back in WW II there were digital computers..like Zuse, Harvard, ENIAC etc. They're big but good for what they are doing.
Now what if one among them can be installed onboard a battleship. I'm curious if it would be of an improvement over mechanical analog computer there, will that help in say making the gun more accurate or something else.
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by Spirit of Hope » Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:47 pm
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by TPFII » Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:59 pm
by Austrasien » Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:28 pm
New Vihenia wrote:So yeah, back in WW II there were digital computers..like Zuse, Harvard, ENIAC etc. They're big but good for what they are doing.
Now what if one among them can be installed onboard a battleship. I'm curious if it would be of an improvement over mechanical analog computer there, will that help in say making the gun more accurate or something else.
by The Corparation » Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:51 pm
Austrasien wrote:New Vihenia wrote:So yeah, back in WW II there were digital computers..like Zuse, Harvard, ENIAC etc. They're big but good for what they are doing.
Now what if one among them can be installed onboard a battleship. I'm curious if it would be of an improvement over mechanical analog computer there, will that help in say making the gun more accurate or something else.
The main practical benefit would be making the GFCS a lot more reliable and less maintenance-intensive to keep at full performance. Electrical noise in an analog system introduces errors into the values and the circuit between guns in a turret and the director was fairly long. Digital systems do not have this problem. Though in practice as has been said battleships like the Iowa's FCS worked extremely well there was inherently more room for errors.
It is also much easier to network digital systems so every gun turret could have a computer performing any or all the gun-laying calculations. Loss of the central GFCS would need not prevent the guns from operating in unison.
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by Champagne Socialist Sharifistan » Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:26 am
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