''Shit man! The enormity of this just hit.
1: The serious reality of Iran’s intent to strike American interests in the Middle East, hence the sending of the massive force that way.
2: The proven fact that John Kerry is up to his neck with Iran, an avowed enemy of the US, as of this hour.
There is no other way to frame this apart from JOHN KERRY IS A TRAITOR & could well be putting US service personnel at grave risk!
Crazy times indeed frens.
Thanks Baker. Your work is both valued and appreciated by this anon. Blessings.
We Are On A Ship.
Strength, Honor, Fortitude
Arrr!
Ahoy there tentacled one kek :)
Notables
Air Force gains increased capacity with new anti-jamming satellite.
The Air Force took control of the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite on May 3, marking a step forward in the service’s efforts to provide jam-resistant communications for the military.
The AEHF system replaces the Milstar constellation to offer highly protected communication for high priority military assets and national leaders. AEHF also serves the United States’ international partners of Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
The Air Force’s 4th Space Operations Squadron officially took control of the satellite during a brief ceremony on May 3 at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. The ceremony comes just days after the Air Force and Lockheed Martin successfully completed on-orbit testing of the satellite, which launched in October.
The new satellite increases the service’s capability and brings the program one step closer to its goal of six geosynchronous satellites in orbit. According to Lockheed Martin, the program’s prime contractor, one AEHF satellite provides more capacity than the entire Milstar constellation, allowing the military to transmit real-time video, battlefield maps and targeting data.
In a statement, Mike Cacheiro, Lockheed Martin Space’s vice president of protected communications, the fourth satellite arrived in its on-orbit position one month early.
The fifth AEHF satellite isn’t far behind. Lockheed Martin announced May 9 it had shipped the fifth satellite in the series to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ahead of its expected launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in June.
“We are thrilled to return to the Cape to launch AEHF-5 less than a year after launching AEHF-4, showing an accelerated pace to support the Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center,” Cacheiro said. “The AEHF system is essentially a high capacity data network in the sky, and this is a complete paradigm shift for the future of protected communications.”
https://www.c4isrnet.com/c2-comms/satellites/2019/05/10/air-force-gains-increased-capacity-with-new-anti-jamming-satellite/
Could be right there fren. Could be right.
One where we all journey together to a brighter shore of unity, truth, love & peace.
Arrrrrr!
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The E/A-18G Growler electronic attack plane is about to get even more lethal!
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Boeing’s E/A-18G Growler could be getting a package of upgrades in the mid-2020s that will give it a suite of new tools to electronically attack its foes.
Early this year, the Navy awarded Boeing initial funding to begin studying what kinds of technologies could be incorporated into a “Block 2 Growler,” said Jen Tebo, the company’s director of Super Hornet and Growler development.
“There were kind of rumblings of Growler Block 2 a year ago, and now it is a real thing,” Tebo told reporters on the sidelines of the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space. “The Growler is the only platform of its type that is being produced today and so it makes sense that we would take something that was designed in the 90s and now enhance it to really be relevant for decades to come.”
he Navy is interested in retrofitting some — potentially all — of its E/A-18G fleet in the mid 2020s. The exact nature of those upgrades is still to be decided, but Tebo outlined a couple broad improvements.
First, Boeing plans to improve the Growler’s electronic attack sensors. For example, it is considering enhancements to Northrop Grumman’s ALQ-218 sensor system, which is used by the Growler for radar warning, electronic support measures and electronic intelligence, Tebo said.
It plans to add “adaptive and distributed processing” so that the E/A-18’s computers can quickly digest and pump out threat information. And because those computers will be processing more information and delivering it to the pilot and weapon system officer, it makes sense to improve interfaces so that data is easy to digest and the aircrew’s workload is minimized, she said.
“All of that is kind of accomplished through software defined radios that are enabled through a flexible and adaptable hardware architecture,” Tebo said.
“That not only gives the Navy step function capability now but sets up the infrastructure and the architecture to allow us to continually evolve capability, as the threats are dynamic out there and they change,” she said. “We don’t know what they are, and the life of the Growler is very very long.”
The Block 2 upgrades will also contain some capabilities that Boeing has already developed for the latest Block 3 iteration of the Super Hornet, such as low-drag conformal fuel tanks. The company is also assessing whether to boost the Growler’s 7,500 hour service life as part of the retrofit process.
Boeing is in the “wrap up phases” of its initial trade study and will brief the Navy and other stakeholders in industry on its result, she said.
“As we move later this year to the SFR — the system functional requirements phase — sometime in that you’ve got to nail down an architecture to get to the functional requirements of this and how we might achieve them.”
https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/navy-league/2019/05/07/the-ea-18g-growler-electronic-attack-plane-is-about-to-get-even-more-lethal/
What will America’s future Navy look like? | Defense News Weekly Special Edition, May 10, 2019
Enjoy this great video packed with info.
Find out the future of America’s navy from new versions of aircraft to shipbuilding design to how old ships are upgraded. Filmed at the Navy League’s Sea Air Space exposition in National Harbor, Maryland.
https://www.militarytimes.com/video/2019/05/10/what-will-americas-future-navy-look-like-defense-news-weekly-special-edition-may-10-2019/
Gina was here before in this bread i think. ourgal
>1
Kek. Bristling with glow-hunting devices of great power. & shielded with the anon's love. she's ace.
Thank you. for everything.
Agreed. That's pretty spot on. Good to know she is aware who is REALLY who here and when everything comes out in the wash, the glows fade and the fam shine bright. love and respect fren.
I've kinda got used to the captchas now.
Childish anon I am, laughs when it spells pubes!
On a ship & It's game on.
No a REAL ship anon ffs kek :)
ha ha ha. you are not alone there defo. caffeine & anon autism jolliness. what a combo!