IBCS Overcomes Electronic Attacks, Downs Cruise Missile
The test involved electronic attack efforts against radars while previous tests had been directed against the communications systems binding IBCS to its sensors.
The test involved electronic attack efforts against radars while previous tests had been directed against the communications systems binding IBCS to its sensors.
"This is a fundamental roles and missions question, and DoD needs to clearly designate a lead service and compel the other services to follow that lead," says Todd Harrison, space and budget expert at the Center for Strategic and International Security.
WASHINGTON: China or Russia could all too easily detect and destroy US Army missile defenses, exposing American forces to devastating attack, a forthcoming study finds. Patriot and THAAD units are big groups of big objects — launchers, radars, command posts — that emit lots of heat and radio/radar waves, are hard to camouflage, and can’t […]
The supersonic SM-6 Standard Missile, designed to shoot down incoming aircraft and cruise missiles, has sunk a target ship in a test. The decommissioned frigate Reuben James went down off Hawaii in the January event, just disclosed today. The test was part of the Navy’s effort to rebuild its firepower to destroy enemy fleets, a concept […]