Re:The A-10 is retiring and the Air Force has no close air s...
by PaulHoule on Sunday July 02, 2023 @12:48PM
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The Russians haven't just invested in ground-to-air systems, they've also invested heavily in electronic warfare, it's going to be a challenge to keep the communication link to a close air support UAV working.
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Re:The A-10 is retiring and the Air Force has no close air s...
by ThunderBee on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:14PM
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The US has a secure, jam resistant com link that will be used by the F35 to control a squadron of drones.
I’m blanking on the name right now but it was displayed in a public demo so I’m sure someone else on here has seen it.
Re:The A-10 is retiring and the Air Force has no close air s...
by genmud on Sunday July 02, 2023 @11:32PM
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If they are investing in it, they sure as hell aren't getting a big bang for their buck from what I have seen. Their man portable counter UAS systems are a fucking joke and only work on common stuff that isn't designed for heavily contested EW environments.
Their bigger systems look reasonable on paper, but I doubt they would be up to the task of dealing with high end comms in an actual combat environment. They can barely keep them alive in Ukraine and from what open sources are reporting are either not very effective or deployed in such small quantities to be effectively nonexistent for the majority of areas seeing combat.
Sure, Iran was able to down a stealth drone years ago by messing with the electronic nav systems, but it wasn't like there was actual combat happening, and I don't think they have repeated that since then.