CSBA "Third Offset" paper

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AI locates and designates targets then sends all data to available strike platforms. Human operator approves target imagery before any attack. This test put the autonomous ISR package into an F-16 but it would actually be a drone and the drone might be armed if the AI package isn't too big. With cross domain combat, the strike platform might also be an armed land robot. Human approval would then come from a remote command center.

http://www.asdnews.com/news/defense...operations-denied-communications-environments

Leveraging the power of artificial intelligence, the autonomous ISR system, integrated into an F-16 through a Lockheed Martin-developed pod solution, was able to detect and identify the location of the target, automatically route to the target, and capture an image to confirm the target in a simulated, denied communications environment.
 
... However, pending a fundamental transformation of the global system, deterrence will remain a major factor in international politics. At the very least, it should serve as a “time-buying strategy” until such fundamental political changes occur. This requires supporters of mainstream deterrence to walk a fine line between defending the concept without trivializing its risks. When it comes to deterring non-military, non-kinetic, and non-existential threats, however, even greater care must be taken not to oversell the concept. Classic deterrence is implemented by governments. The idea that the private sector, financial institutions and other players can be integrated into a coherent, multidimensional deterrence concept against a host of non-military threats risks promising much more than can be delivered.

Conventional precision deterrence must be real if major conflict is to be avoided..
 
Third Offset Mosaic Hyper Holistic Super Duper Warfare ;)

 
Third Offset Mosaic Hyper Holistic Super Duper Warfare ;)

The shrinking defense industrial base. The United States and its allies will face fewer choices in 2030 for major weapon systems and a diminished capacity to ramp up production that might be needed for a major conflict. Causes include fewer prime contractors, less resiliency and redundancy among "warm" production lines and types of aircraft and other major equipment in production, rising technological complexity of weapons systems, and less high-skill engineering and technological expertise in the industrial manufacturing labor market.
 
 
Gyrene tuffs are assigned to "information advantage". Is that short for they are not assigned to do anything? Marginally survivable aircraft and even muntions/missiles justifies leading the USAF Joint Fires? The Navy lacking a ship plan and global logistics ship plan, and they are not assigned to logistics but the Army is. The Army should lead Joint Fires ie the Strategicc Long Range Cannon (SLRC). Many other programs are making less and less sense.
 
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Notwithstanding my feeling about our eroding nuclear deterrent in terms of conventional deterrence, having 400-500 F-22s would have been nice. Thats why the B-21 and PCA must be built in high numbers.

Imagine trying to plan a counter to hundreds of B-21s carrying 20+ ARRW or conventional LRSO/JASSM-ERs supported by a very long range 6th generation stealth fighter?
 
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Notwithstanding my feeling about our eroding nuclear deterrent in terms of conventional deterrence, having 400-500 F-22s would have been nice. Thats why the B-21 and PCA must be built in high numbers.

Imagine trying to plan a counter to hundreds of B-21s carrying 20+ ARRW or conventional LRSO/JASSM-ERs supported by a very long range 6th generation stealth fighter?

Do you means HAWCs? The ARRW is probably around 7,300 pounds, which is what the F-15X can carry in its center.
 
Gyrene tuffs are assigned to "information advantage". Is that short for they are not assigned to do anything? Marginally survivable aircraft and even muntions/missiles justifies leading the USAF Joint Fires? The Navy lacking a ship plan and global logistics ship plan, and they are not assigned to logistics but the Army is. The Army should lead Joint Fires ie the Strategicc Long Range Cannon (SLRC). Many other programs are making less and less sense.
 
AI beats human 5 to 0 in simulated dogfights. F-16's used by both and g limits raised to 9. Kill is gun only.

Video of team Heron beating human pilot ("banger") is at final 21 minutes.
 
 
Third Offset Mosaic Hyper Holistic Super Duper Warfare ;)

The shrinking defense industrial base. The United States and its allies will face fewer choices in 2030 for major weapon systems and a diminished capacity to ramp up production that might be needed for a major conflict. Causes include fewer prime contractors, less resiliency and redundancy among "warm" production lines and types of aircraft and other major equipment in production, rising technological complexity of weapons systems, and less high-skill engineering and technological expertise in the industrial manufacturing labor market.







 
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Gyrene tuffs are assigned to "information advantage". Is that short for they are not assigned to do anything? Marginally survivable aircraft and even muntions/missiles justifies leading the USAF Joint Fires? The Navy lacking a ship plan and global logistics ship plan, and they are not assigned to logistics but the Army is. The Army should lead Joint Fires ie the Strategicc Long Range Cannon (SLRC). Many other programs are making less and less sense.
 
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