An extremely interesting article failed to pass under my radar and it is thanks to an article a little more "bling-bling" of Wired (January 21, 2011) I read that of Aviation Week (January 10, 2011) much more sober but equally intriguing.
The tragic events of September 11 2001 changed explicitly or subtly, depending on the perspective that we are ten years later, many sectors, both in terms of military and "civilian." Military operations conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan have primarily focused on building new or improved operations (UAVs unarmed and armed infantry equipment, tele-operated turrets, network-centric operations, etc.). But mostly concern kinetic capabilities. What seemed to hit perfect sense because these conflicts are low intensity and asymmetric.
The western and especially American effort has raised over the past decade (2000/2010) on the kinetic abilities at the expense of non-kinetic capabilities. This period seems to be over because the major programs like F22 Raptor especially F35 Lightning II entered or will enter in service. These observations apply equally to all other programs (Under development or entering into service) where the weapons systems of the next generation should help maintain (or increase) a technological and military superiority.
What appears to rebalance the scales is the possibility of conflicts against states that they are Iran, North Korea or China .... This is also the Middle Kingdom which serves gadfly USA: major economic power, the financial outlay in terms of investment R & D and acquisition of modern means allocated to the military in fact, since 2008, second country in the world in military spending just behind the USA.
Through confirmations Vice Admiral Dorsett , attached "Information superiority" to the Naval Operations ( and secondarily boss intelligence U.S. Navy), Aviation Week's article tells us that the U.S. Navy has decided to focus its efforts for the current decade (2010/2020) programs to non-kinetic. Programs first and foremost is the EA-18G "Growler" , electronic warfare version of the F-18 Super Hornet. This unit specializes in the removal of anti-aircraft (radar-aircraft batteries via computer networks associated ) offensive capabilities would have extended the same rank as his "cousin" of the U.S. Air Force F35. These capabilities are the second part of this post.
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