GBAD - The return of 'FOBS'

[Furniture]

Russia's attack drones now jam the cheap interceptors sent to kill them - Euromaidan Press

The jammer reads the interceptor's own video frequency, then floods it—blinding the operator who steers the drone.

euromaidanpress.com

Do you mean to suggest that the shiny brochures aren't presenting the full picture?

 

[KevinB]

Do you mean to suggest that the shiny brochures aren't presenting the full picture?

Imagine my surprise…

 

[Kirkhill]

Army Widens Stinger Surface-To-Air Missile Replacement Search

Lockheed and Raytheon are developing competing Stinger replacements now, but the Army wants to put additional designs to the test next year.

www.twz.com

Room for the $10,000 SAAB Nimbrix or the $5,000 Wild Hornets Sting?

The Stinger Replacement was the known known.
Nimbrix and Sting are coming out of the unknown uknown realm.

Neither they, nor their capabilities, existed when the Stinger arsenal was exhausted.

 

[KevinB]

Army Widens Stinger Surface-To-Air Missile Replacement Search

Lockheed and Raytheon are developing competing Stinger replacements now, but the Army wants to put additional designs to the test next year.

www.twz.com

Room for the $10,000 SAAB Nimbrix or the $5,000 Wild Hornets Sting?

Sort of want them to work against all the required threats.
Which they don’t.

The Stinger Replacement was the known known.
Nimbrix and Sting are coming out of the unknown uknown realm.

Neither they, nor their capabilities, existed when the Stinger arsenal was exhausted.

There are still Stingers. The supply is not exhausted.
But you are touting concepts that do not work against the threat requirements.

Sure it’s great to be cheap, but if you can only engage 1 of the 4 types of requirements successfully, is that really an option?

FWIW I think the author is confused about Class 2 UAS, by his definition it is a waste of a missile interceptor, but he actually describes a Class I Small UAS (20kg/55lbs or lighter). Whereas Class 2 is up to 600kg/1300lbs

 

[Kirkhill]

Sort of want them to work against all the required threats.
Which they don’t.

There are still Stingers. The supply is not exhausted.
But you are touting concepts that do not work against the threat requirements.

Sure it’s great to be cheap, but if you can only engage 1 of the 4 types of requirements successfully, is that really an option?

FWIW I think the author is confused about Class 2 UAS, by his definition it is a waste of a missile interceptor, but he actually describes a Class I Small UAS (20kg/55lbs or lighter). Whereas Class 2 is up to 600kg/1300lbs

Why don't riflemen carry only one weapon that kills all targets?

Isn't a bit adventurous to argue that a cheap round should not be acquired because it only does 25 to 50% of the job?

Where is the rationale for the M72 and the AT4? The DMR and the LMG?

 

[Kirkhill]

The US Air Force is working on its drone defenses, starting with AI and ending with shotguns

Airmen learned how to use artificial intelligence systems to scan the skies for drones and engage threats.

www.businessinsider.com

How the Army benefits from diverse interceptors, plus a window into modernization - Breaking Defense

The chief of the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command shares more from our recent interview in Huntsville, Ala.

breakingdefense.com

Layering and Mutual Support.

 

[Kirkhill]

Pentagon awards contract in race to field cheaper interceptors, missiles

The Pentagon awarded a contract to X-Bow Systems in its race to develop a new anti-ballistic weapon for less than $750,000 per shot.

www.defensenews.com

Reducing costs .... printing Solid Rocket Motors.

 

[Kirkhill]

An alternate US supplier of the Hydra 70mm rockets that form the core of the APKWS II Prox CUAS missiles.

U.S. Army contractor Firehawk successfully tests Hydra-70 rockets

Firehawk successfully fired six Hydra-70 rockets in a live-fire test at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, the company said Friday, achieving a 100 percent success rate. The rockets were built at Firehawk's facility in Crawford, Mississippi, and fired from an M261

defence-blog.com

 

[Kirkhill]

If we need/want 70mm rockets then this is certainly something we should build domestically.

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