Category: Logistics chains

US Air Force invests in production of aviation fuel from atmospheric CO2

If the new Joint All-Domain Command and Control doctrine put forward by the American armed forces provides numerous responses to the multiplication of threats, it also induces, as we have discussed on numerous occasions, a notable complexification of the supply chain for forces deployed in smaller and more dispersed units. In this area, two particularly important problems have emerged, particularly during the Afghanistan campaign which, in a way, foreshadowed the logistical constraints which the American forces will be confronted with, namely drinking water and fuel, representing between them more 50% of the mass transported daily for…

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The US Army will experiment with 107 new technologies during the Convergence 2021 project

Like the US Navy and the US Air Force, the US Army simultaneously develops several hundred Research and Development programs with often very disparate ambitions and schedules. And like its counterparts, it must validate its cooperative capabilities in application of the new Joint All-Domain Command and Control doctrine, or JADC2, which frames the strategic and tactical evolution of American military operations in the years and decades to come. To do this, since last year it has been organizing a major exercise every autumn, called the "Convergence Project", specifically intended to validate the cooperative capacities of some of its programs, as well as to assess their operational added value...

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The US Navy still in the dark to counter China in the Pacific

To say that the US Navy is going through a period of uncertainty in terms of naval programming would be an understatement, as it struggles, and this for several years, to propose firm and effective planning. But the rapid rise in power, and moreover perfectly mastered, of the Chinese naval and naval air forces, associated with the return in the making of Russian maritime power, add to these uncertainties, creating a very palpable feeling of vagueness for several months in the discourse of the Pentagon officials. A report by Think Tank Govini published a few days ago sheds a particularly interesting light on the phenomenon, pointing out the fact that the planning of…

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DARPA is again interested in Ekranoplan

In September 2020, three American officers from the US Navy and Marine Corps published a flamboyant article on the website of the very serious US Naval Institute. Captain of the Marines Walker D. Mills, Lieutenant-Commander Phillips-Levine and Captain of the US Navy Joshua Taylor presented, in fact, a remarkable analysis on the opportunity for the American armies to develop and deploy a fleet of 'Ekanoplan, also Wing in Ground effect or WIG across the Atlantic, to evolve and strengthen the strategic transport capabilities of US forces in the face of the challenges posed by specific geography and the denial of Chinese access to the Pacific. Obviously,…

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Chinese Air Force Strengthens Positions Against India

While the unarmed clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers on the Ladakh plateau in June 2020, which resulted in the death of several dozen soldiers from both sides, did not lead to a massive military escalation between the two countries, it did bring Beijing like New Delhi to review the deployment of their forces in this highly strategic region on the borders of the Himalayas. On both sides, many heavy military forces have been deployed near this area of ​​tension, so as to be able to respond, if necessary, to an aggression in a short time. Thus, numerous observations made it possible to establish that the People's Liberation Army there…

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The US Army will test the Iron Dome to protect its vulnerable infrastructure

One of the major lessons of the war that pitted Azeri forces against Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 was the great vulnerability of force support sites, such as logistics areas, command posts, and fortifications, in the face of modern artillery systems coupled with reconnaissance drones. And if the Armenian anti-aircraft defenses managed to keep the Azeri fighters at a distance, they were largely idle in the face of the small reconnaissance drones directing the enemy artillery fire. Beyond this example, the increase in range and accuracy of modern and future artillery systems, whether artillery…

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The US Air Force's future NGAD fighter program will be the antithesis of the F35 (2/2)

This article follows the article "The future NGAD fighter program of the US Air Force will be the antithesis of the F35 (1/2)" published on May 18, 2021. During his hearing before the American Congress on the sidelines of the preparation of the annual Defense budget for 2022, the Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, General Brown, presented the future format of American fighters for 2030. This is based on "4 aircraft +1 “, namely the F15EX Eagle II, the F16 Viper, the F35A Lighting II and the A10 Thunderbolt 2. The F22, pillar of American air superiority for 15 years, no longer appears in…

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The US Army radically changes its doctrine to face China

"Chinese gentlemen, shoot first!" ". It is by this declaration paraphrased from the famous reply of the Count of Anterroches during the battle of Fontenoy in 1745, that we can summarize the new strategy presented by the Chief of Staff of the US Army, the General James McConville, to deal with Chinese forces in the Pacific. But where the sentence of the French officer reported by Voltaire was only a bravado in the face of the superiority of the British forces certain of victory, for the American general officer, it is a question of defining a new doctrine of employment of forces in order to preserve the means and firepower of…

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China mobilizes city of 15 million people in defense exercise

The resilience of civilian populations, as well as of industry and the economy, in the event of a major conflict, is at the heart of a country's ability to sustain an intensive military effort over time. This subject has long since been forgotten by a majority of Western states, as well as by their citizens, who are often unconcerned about the collective effort required to deal with a critical situation. In Europe, only Sweden has, in recent years, put in place the premises of a global resilience strategy, but this is an exception. For Beijing, on the other hand, the link that binds the nation and its…

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US Navy experiments with drones for logistics at sea

According to US Navy statistics, 90% of logistics flights at sea that have mobilized an H60 Seahawk helicopter or a V22 Osprey in recent years have been carried out to transport loads weighing less than 50 pounds, or 25 kilos. This involved, for example, transporting critical spare parts or medicines. Hence the idea of ​​entrusting these low-load missions to a drone, which is much more economical and more adequate to carry out this type of mission, according to the NAWCAD, for Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division of the naval air base of Patuxent River, in the state of Maryland. Thus, at the end of October, the…

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