New war entry. Space Marines, web pilots e interlinked warriors Ora con demo allegatO
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Col. Jack Wassink is a former Marine Corps jet jockey with a weird new mission. This blunt, 45-year-old chief of the Marine Corps's tiny Space Integration Branch in Quantico, Virginia, shepherds the Marines' radical vision of space warfare.
Unlike the Air Force, Navy and Army, all three of which sponsor expensive satellite programs, the cash-strapped Marines are pushing just one space concept. It's called Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion, or SUSTAIN, and it's a reusable spaceplane meant to get a squad of Marines to any hotspot on Earth in two hours -- then get them out. The idea is to reinforce embattled embassies, take out terrorist leaders or defuse hostage situations before it's too late. "The Marine Corps needs [this] capability," Brig. Gen. Richard C. Zilmer told Congress in 2004.
"The Corps has always been an expeditionary force, a force of readiness, a 911 force," Wassink says. "All SUSTAIN is, is a requirement to move Marines very rapidly from one place to another. Space lends itself to that role."
Spaceplanes -- that is, craft that take off and land like airplanes but achieve low orbit using rocket motors -- aren't science fiction anymore. In 2004, Burt Rutan's Space Ship One snared the $10 million X-Prize by demonstrating that a relatively cheap and simple vehicle could get a man into low orbit in two stages and return him safely. Air Force Brig. Gen. S. Pete Worden said Rutan's bird offers a glimpse of a future military space transport. “It’s just a scaled-up version of that that would do this [SUSTAIN] mission."
This year, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, launched a spaceplane program called Hot Eagle. Capitalizing on Space Ship One and Hot Eagle, the Marines are hoping to get a space transport into service soon.
But Wassink says the Corps can't go it alone. He's been working hard since 2003 to convince the sister services and the scientific community to get behind SUSTAIN. "We've seen the entire gamut of reactions. Some people don't get past the past the giggle factor. Some people think we're off base. Some think we're visionary."
Wassink and the Marines are the underdogs of space. Of all the military space techs on the drawing board, SUSTAIN is the among hardest to pull off. "Propulsion and aerodynamics are going to have to be developed," Wassink says. "And there's a whole host of safety considerations. It's certainly not something the Marine Corps would be able to develop and acquire on its own."
But SUSTAIN promises, for the first time, the capability to influence events anywhere in the world fast and with flexible force, lethal or non-. Wassink believes it is truly revolutionary -- and possible in 10 to 15 years. That's why he's at the Pentagon or in research labs every week pitching SUSTAIN. And that's what motivates him to keep trying when skeptical scientists and generals laugh him out of the room.
"Think about how fast aviation developed. By the end of World War II, you're flying jet aircraft as opposed to propeller planes. That's just 20 years."
"It's realistic," Wassink says of SUSTAIN. "And I'm excited about it."
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New Wing Brings Air Force Dominance to Cyberspace
Air Force Print News | SSgt. Shad Eidson | July 10, 2006
Lackland AFB, TX. - The Air Force consolidated the responsibilities of its network operations security centers under one wing here today, giving it the advantage over America's enemies and achieving tactical dominance on the newest battlefront -- cyberspace.
That took place when the 67th Information Operations Wing was redesignated the 67th Network Warfare Wing.
The change will better support the Air Force mission to "deliver sovereign options for the defense of the United States of America and its global interests -- to fly and fight in air, space and cyberspace," said Lt. Gen. Robert J. Elder Jr., 8th Air Force and Air Force Network Operations commander.
"The Air Force established the 67th Network Warfare Wing to have an organization solely focused on ensuring that our networks are able to operate in time of peace and war and to have the capability to deal with potential adversaries who may be trying to exploit our networks," the general said.
The wing falls under the newly created Air Force Network Operations Command, which stood up July 5 at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. The change is part of a larger reorganization of Air Force network operations structure designed to better support the warfighter by placing all Air Force units charged with network operations under a single commander.
"We are treating our networks as a global force just as we treat the Air Forces as a global force," the general said. "We will treat the entire network as one large global grid."
The capabilities of Air Force network operations security centers, which were previously decentralized among the major commands -- as well as 8th Air Force, the Air Intelligence Agency, the Operational Standard Systems Group and the Air Force Communications Agency -- will consolidate under the wing.
The wing will oversee the change of the NOSCs at Langley AFB, Va., and Peterson AFB, Colo. These two centers will centralize the Air Force's remaining eight centers into the network command.
The general said the Air Force has maintained battlefield dominance and superiority through asymmetrical advantages and that "advantage comes from the communications capability that we have and our ability to have a decision cycle that is unsurpassed by any potential adversary."
"We want to make sure that nothing occurs that would prevent us from maintaining that tremendous advantage that we have over our potential adversaries," General Elder said.
67th NWW Commander Col. Kathryn Gauthier believes that cyberspace is a change facing the nation and it is changing fast.
"Our Air Force embraces change," the colonel said. "We will gain and maintain the high ground. Air Force networks will stay secure. Success will happen and the (67th) will deliver."
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Il primo è un progetto dei marines per il trasporto rapido via scuttle, un aereoplanino per voli orbitali e discesa.
Il secondo è la costituzione di una "brigata" "stormo" dell'air force l'avviazione americana per la guerra nel cyberspazio una risposta alla minaccia degli Hacker nord coreani? http://www.yarix.com/index.php?lang=it&a mp;a mp;a mp;area=2&menuid=10&list=all& ;amp ;amp ;idnews=126
Il terzo che è un po' un mio gioiellino è la prevista modernizzazione del usarmy e efficacia delle nuove tecnologie e tattiche diciamo nello sbarco in Normadia.(però al posto dei nazzi i terroristi uhm)
Mettete tutto assieme e avrete un bel quadretto su come sarà la guerra tra 5 anni o anche ora.
Argh il filmatino non è disponibile.
devo uplodarlo a parte.
Nada mi da problemi il filmato sarà disponibile solo a richiesta.
