According to a report on its website by the well-known American magazine "Defense Blog", the Pentagon recently announced a news that the main five-generation fighters F-22 and F-35 currently equipped by the US military will be carried out at the same time. The new generation of upgrades will greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the US Air Force, and according to the estimates of the US military assessors, it will increase to more than three times the original. According to the information in the "Defense Blog" article, the U.S. Air Force is currently cooperating with the U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman. According to the company’s announcement on May 1, the company’s team quickly resolved The problem that has been plagued by the US Air Force for many years is the inability to share data between different models of the fifth-generation aircraft.
The issue of air communication and data sharing between different models of the fifth-generation aircraft has been a big problem for the US Air Force before, in order to allow the F-22 and F-35 to operate jointly. It is necessary to dispatch a third radar aircraft and other data fighters to relay the communication between the two. Otherwise, the communication between the two can only be called with open codes, which will greatly expose the combat information of the US military. And some secrets. Therefore, the U.S. Air Force urgently needs a network-centric fifth-generation aircraft to the fifth-generation aircraft and a platform for communication and data sharing with other platforms, while Northrop Grumman has obtained a license from the U.S. Air Force Lifecycle Management Center and Network Department. Obtained this development contract.
According to the company’s public information, this airborne communication and data sharing platform is named "gateway ONE". The system will use the network as a communication method while developing software and hardware A "modular and open architecture" design approach will be adopted so that the system can be quickly mounted on US Air Force fighters. After adopting this system, F-22 and F-35 fighters can be each other in wartime. The U.S. Air Force’s procurement director Will Ropa said that this system will break the bottleneck that has prevented the two fifth-generation aircraft from interoperating over the years, and achieve one plus one combat effectiveness. An effect greater than two.
In addition to the communication and data sharing between the fifth-generation aircraft, the system can also provide the communication requirements between the fifth-generation and fourth-generation aircraft, which will make the U.S. military continue to try and use the fifth-generation The tactics of guiding the fourth-generation aircraft to conduct large-scale air strikes can be more convenient to implement. Northrop Grumman even publicly stated in its official website that this system will make F-22 and F-35 again To achieve technological transcendence, the US military's fifth-generation fighters equipped with this system will have at least 20 years of technological advantages compared to the J-20 and Su-57 fighters. At the same time, the company also said that the system will have cross-platform large-volume data sharing, communication and translation capabilities.
It is reported that this requirement is to meet the needs of the US Air Force's advanced combat management system, which is currently one of the important research and development projects of the US Air Force and the entire US military. Advanced Combat Management The system was first demonstrated in December last year. In this demonstration, the U.S. Air Force demonstrated the cross-platform wireless data connection between the F-35 fighter, the F-22 fighter and the U.S. Navy destroyer Thomas Hadner. Data sharing capabilities. According to sources from the US Air Force, the second round of experimental operations, which should have been held in June, had to be delayed due to the spread of the epidemic, and may not be held until August or September in the second half of this year. According to the original plan, both the US Strategic Command and the US Space Command will participate in the second round of the Air Force test.
According to the "Defense Blog" in its May report, the U.S. military expressed its hope to form a complete command network that can connect all naval and army combat platforms. An attempt at the advanced battle management system will be the starting point for all this. For a long time, the US military has been the pioneer of the global military science and technology revolution. The United States also has a long history of exploration in the common sense of military management data. In recent years, the US military has continuously proposed research and development and large-scale use of unmanned troops. The Pentagon even has Through the reduction of US Navy aircraft carriers of a certain tonnage, the plan is to install unmanned warships of the same tonnage in parallel. In general, in order to maintain its technological superiority, the United States is making progress on the future development of the military.Further exploration.
Author: Valentine officer
