GBAD - The return of 'FOBS'

[Kirkhill]

And Thales doubling the production in Belgium of their version of the 70mm BAE APKWS II that is proving so popular on all launch platforms.

Thales ramps up guided rocket production to address increased ME demand - Breaking Defense

"We more than doubled the [production] number, considering the situation at the moment in the Middle East,” a company executive told Breaking Defense.

breakingdefense.com

Bring back the CRV-7

Magellan and Kongsberg 2006 - the CRV-7 PG (Precision Guidance)

Magellan KDA Teaming Announcement - Magellan Aerospace

Paris, France, June 14, 2006 – Magellan Aerospace announced today at Eurosatory 2006 a Teaming Agreement with Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (KDA), Kongsberg, Norway, to develop and produce a guided 2.75” (70mm) weapon system for air, land, and naval military platforms. The CRV7-Precision...

magellan.aero

magellan.aero/wp-content/uploads/CRV7%20Fixed%20Wing%20-%20Web%20Version-1.pdf

 

[Colin Parkinson]

"Standard" Lance turret, as found on the Rheinmetall Puma, knocking UAVs out of the sky. Not the fully equipped Skyranger.

And Belgians adding AI vehicle identification modules on their vehicles and smart munitions promoting local autonomy

Belgian IDDEA Launches Onboard AI System for Combat Vehicles to Identify Military Equipment

IDDEA unveils embedded MEGA AI enabling combat vehicles and air defense systems to identify military equipment offline in contested environments

armyrecognition.com

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Another reason for adding these to the Light Infantry Regiment's kit

Ukraine’s DevDroid Unveils Droid NW 40 UGV Equipped With Remote 40mm Grenade Launcher for European Armies

DevDroid unveiled its Droid NW 40 combat UGV in Brussels, bringing remote 40 mm grenade launcher capability to Europe’s defense market.

armyrecognition.com

DevDroid

We are DevDroid. We develop combat modules and robotic systems with artificial intelligence that enhance the efficiency and safety of military operations.

devdroid.tech

DevDroid

We are DevDroid. We develop combat modules and robotic systems with artificial intelligence that enhance the efficiency and safety of military operations.

devdroid.tech

If those then this

30x113mm Bushmaster® Chain Guns® | Northrop Grumman

Arming many nations’ superior attack helicopters, ground, and sea platforms; firing 30x113mm advanced ammunition to defeat aerial and ground threats for mission success.

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An MG team of three in a pickup truck with a pair of these small UGVs in the back enhanced by AI sighting systems. They even have tracks for the track afficionados. And they are small enough tobe lifted by a Griffon.

For these small UGV taking a stationary position, I could see the benefits of a line laid to the position with perhaps a very short ranged wireless link to the vehicle to reduce EM emissions and preserve battery life.

The next family of UGV's is one that reload/recharge the combat UGV and recover damaged ones.

 

[FJAG]

I'm starting to wonder whether you should change the title of this thread. It seems that for quite some time we have moved beyond the Chinese FOBS.

This system, called a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS), was designed to launch thermonuclear warheads on a south-to-north trajectory to take out northern-facing North American Aerospace Defense Command’s (NORAD) ballistic missile early-warning radars.

We're talking mostly in the area of the army field force GBAD or even Homeland local AD, and sometime we're talking about IAMD but rarely have we touched FOBS except peripherally. These are really three separate topics with IAMD encompassing FOBS.

 

[Kirkhill]

I'm starting to wonder whether you should change the title of this thread. It seems that for quite some time we have moved beyond the Chinese FOBS.

We're talking mostly in the area of the army field force GBAD or even Homeland local AD, and sometime we're talking about IAMD but rarely have we touched FOBS except peripherally. These are really three separate topics with IAMD encompassing FOBS.

I would be happy to ditch the FOBS reference.

I don't know about splitting the threads as the technologies all overlap, all the way from C-RAM and C-UAS to the Golden Dome by way of the INTEGRATED Air and Missiile Defence.

I don't think you can separate launchers and command structures when hypersonic weapons bridge continents in minutes.

 

[FJAG]

I would be happy to ditch the FOBS reference.

I don't know about splitting the threads as the technologies all overlap, all the way from C-RAM and C-UAS to the Golden Dome by way of the INTEGRATED Air and Missiile Defence.

I don't think you can separate launchers and command structures when hypersonic weapons bridge continents in minutes.

Yeah, if you want to just leave it as a generic ground based air defence then "GBAD" by itself would probably do. Just remove the FOBS stuff.

Do you still have the ability to edit the title or is that a moderator job? I have to say that "FOBS" get's me thinking of forward operating bases and not some Chinese nuclear missile strategy.

 

[Kirkhill]

Yeah, if you want to just leave it as a generic ground based air defence then "GBAD" by itself would probably do. Just remove the FOBS stuff.

Do you still have the ability to edit the title or is that a moderator job? I have to say that "FOBS" get's me thinking of forward operating bases and not some Chinese nuclear missile strategy.

Its a moderator job.

Just call it All Things GBAD.