2. It’s not about scolding people. Rather, we can point people to better sources and sound logic. I have eaten humble pie for years, especially when I am corrected on naval matters. But the most rewarding moments were being privately told by:
(i) an Apache pilot what was wrong with my concept with how UAV and Apache teaming works; and
(ii) a former artillery officer and defence journalist how limited my understanding of littoral warfare was; and that to dominate the sea from land and vice versa required much more reading than what I had done at that point.
2 to 3 years later, I was able to improve the quality of my posts.
3. Platform centric discussions are rubbish and thousands of DT members hold that view. In the area of attaining air superiority during air warfare, hundreds of DT members are able to explain that the future is in co-operative battlespace managers which can run primary or hand-off where appropriate. This means fighter aircraft in US service will work with support from AWACs, Rivet, Compass and so on. F-35A and F-15EXs will not work by themselves, in fact, they will work with F-22 too to provide advanced ISR, communications and computational capabilities.
4. From a US Navy centric view point, AEGIS and its cooperative engagement capability can take incoming data from off-board sources, be it from Baseline 10 Aegis System of Flight III Arleigh Burke destroyers, the up coming FFG(X)s, E-2Ds, Block 3 Super Hornets, Growlers, F-35Bs and F-35Cs to fire at targets a ship's own radar cannot see. The US Navy has tested what's called "launch on remote," where the AEGIS destroyer uses the off-board data to launch a Standard Missile towards the target (i.e. an enemy ballistic or cruise missile) but still relies on its own radar to lock on for the final approach to intercept the target. It is important to understand that the pilot of the sensing aircraft is not going to command a Standard Missile launch, rather it is the naval air warfare officer based on the AEGIS destroyer.
5. This kill chain relies on E-2D acting as the gateway to AEGIS, processing data from various on-board and off-board sensors. The terminal guidance phase is handled by the Standard Missile's seeker. The US Navy will be looking at "engage on remote." The key to this new way of war, is the network, including space based systems that will join these systems providing a 'greater than the sum of the parts' for the US armed services.
6. Air warfare is conceptual and often conducted at beyond visual range, using missiles that can out turn any fighter. Undue focus on kinematic performance of a teen series fighter is not relevant to a systems event. In the real world, no fighter, fights on its own. Some newbies have said this policy on focusing on a system level discussion is boring but we have had so many cycles of correcting newbies that many senior members of the forum are bored with dealing with these people.
7. We have a reference '
thread (where some prior comparisons were made)' for new members to read, to help them stay out of trouble.
8. When someone writes 20 posts that contains so many factual errors and has limited conceptual understanding of the subject he argues about, it gets frustrating to others trying to explain to him. This was raised as an issue to the Moderators and I gave him a gentle reminder in
Green text (and not even in the usual
Red text). The goal was just to enable pykie to realise that he needed to do more reading by pointing him to threads from
2010 and
2013, where the same arguments have been made.
9. pykie’s ballistic reaction to
Green text guidance demonstrated to us that he was not willing to listen. And since we also aim to please, we fulfilled his request to be banned.
