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| 'Attacking at speed': Army Project Convergence and breakthrough lightning-fast war |
| 2020-09-28 |
| [FoxNews] The exercise was a part of the Army’s Project Convergence 2020. The U.S. military recently conducted a live-fire full combat replication with unmanned-to-unmanned teaming guiding attacks, small reconnaissance drones, satellites sending target coordinates to ground artillery and high-speed, AI-enabled “networked” warfare. This exercise was a part of the Army’s Project Convergence 2020, a weapons and platform combat experiment which, service leaders say, represents a massive transformation helping the service pivot its weapons use, tactics and maneuver strategies into a new era. Taking place at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, Project Convergence involved live-fire war experiments aligned in three distinct phases, intended to help the Army cultivate its emerging modern Combined Arms Maneuver strategy. Through carefully coordinated attack maneuvers, the force sought to hit and disable the outer defensive perimeter of an enemy system such as its air defenses. Second, as explained by PC20 coordinator Brig. Gen. Ross Coffman, was a “disintegration phase” wherein operational aircraft including advanced helicopters, drones and mini-drone Air Launched Effects, found and attacked the enemy’s long-range precision fires apparatus. The third and final phase, as explained by Coffman, included the use of armored vehicle ground force fires to directly engage with, fire upon and destroy enemy assets and formations. “This follows the multi-domain operations concept of how we plan to fight,” Coffman said. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #11 "Inevitable" Instant Victory by the PowerPoint™ Brigade !! |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-09-28 17:14 |
| #10 Makes you wonder where the A10 millstone of the USAF might better fit. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-09-28 12:59 |
| #9 ...level and burn the jungle and kill the japs with extreme prejudice wouldn't pass the first clerk at the EPA. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-28 07:35 |
| #8 ^But they didn't have to draw environmental impact statements. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-28 06:57 |
| #7 ...they did in the Philippines 1944-45. With the island hopping pretty much wrapped up, Marine air assets were available. The Army request their support as the Army Air Corps was just tied up in maintaining air superiority. The Marine air provided troop support and were the preferred choice of Army ground troops. - cite |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-28 06:48 |
| #6 So all they have to do is figure out how to move tanks and combat troops to a particular theater in short notice... On their way to Mexicali. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-09-28 06:44 |
| #5 There was a point in time when the Army wanted the Marine air wings...never hatchi GI. |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2020-09-28 03:21 |
| #4 The title of Rapid Deployment Forces is often associated with the US Marines. Members of the United States Marine Corps are stationed worldwide on ships, off the coasts of troubled regions and are already in place. That mission status usually places them into the category of "Forward Deployed" |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2020-09-28 03:15 |
| #3 how to move tanks and combat troops to a particular theater in short notice Call the Marines. |
| Posted by: Uloter Ebbomolet9368 2020-09-28 02:22 |
| #2 POMCUS/REFORGER type setups in RORO ships and a few convenient land bases. And unlike Erdogan, you refuse entry, you cease to be an ally, and we cut you off economically and militarily. |
| Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-28 00:56 |
| #1 So all they have to do is figure out how to move tanks and combat troops to a particular theater in short notice... |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2020-09-28 00:28 |