One of the most important technologies to understand the implications of in terms of military power.
Only if you pay the subscription. Also, after seeing the F-35 fet taken out by Iran, not sure countries will rely on the US
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There are other similar systems, there will be more other similar systems, Link16 is worth knowing about as a basic concept because of the class of technology it illustrates.
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Many helicopters, aircraft, and unmanned vehicles can mount Link16, this article kind of portrays this like this is just a fighter-bomber thing, it isn’t.
Right, but who would trust US tech now that it has been exposed as a graft tech?
Definitely valid I was trying to emphasize I was I shared the article because of the category of technology, less so the specific “product”. An underappreciated aspect of “Drone Warfare” is a high degree of data sharing between different elements on the battlefield.
It is necessary to emphasize the architecture shaping these conflicts on the back end and what makes them too decisive to ignore.
For example this forward looking article about Link16 speculates pretty accurately what warfare would look like 20 years later.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1204warfare/
With data links still being fielded and Internet protocols wide open to debate, much remains to be done before the future architectures become familiar tactical tools. But the Air Force is on the right path. “I’m really optimistic about where we’re going,” said Hobbins. “I do believe that technology will get us to where we want to go, which I believe is the self-forming, self-healing global information grid in the long term. Quite frankly, you could look out to the 2020 time frame and say hopefully we’ll be there by then, and I believe technology will move us even faster, and we’ll have great elements of this airborne network by the 2014 time frame.”
Never believe armchair observers when they say war has made a clean break with the past.
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