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The latest Joint Strike Force fighter plane cannot carry enough missiles to engage swarms of targets at coming in all-at-once. It will run out of missiles and each time it shoots a missile it gives clues to its location, thus makes itself a target. When the missile system which stores the missiles inside of the aircraft to remain stealth, opens the missile bay doors, it becomes visible to enemy radar.
To make things worse it can only hold a certain number of missiles, once they run out, it will have to disengage and leave the battlespace. So, with this dilemma known, the aircraft needs smaller missiles or it needs a laser system inside that can run off the jet engines. A laser system with adequate range in place of missiles will allow it to engage a multitude of targets.
Is this feasible? Oh, yes of course, but it will mean miniaturizing the laser systems that go into the 747 and the C-130s. How much will this cost and how long with this take? Well, it will cost a couple of billion dollars, but the payoffs of such technology really open up a whole new scenario of future warfare.
Consider if you will stealth generation four and five fighter planes with laser weapon systems, like that of the X-Wing Star Wars fighters. Sound too Sci Fi for you? Well, this is where we are headed and we need to get there sooner than later if we are to protect ourselves, our allies and our trading partners. So, think on this.
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Realising the Operational Benefits of Virtual Maintenance Training Systems
The technologically advanced equipment that provides the capability for modern warfare demands that people responsible for its maintenance are much more technology literate than any previous generation.
New high performance, fast jet, aircraft systems, such as EFA Typhoon and Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), are defined as half jet, half computer. The maintenance crews of these aircraft will be working with sophisticated computer systems unheard of with today’s legacy aircraft. This, by its very nature, redefines the required maintenance skills and offers new opportunities in the way knowledge is acquired.
Additionally, as the military strives to operate within ever tightening defence budgets, there is less likely to be money available to fund additional pieces of equipment for strictly training purposes. All equipment procured must be available for operations, and it is becoming increasingly common for maintenance technicians to only interact with and gain system knowledge when the new equipment is already in service.
To address these issues, the construct of the maintenance classroom is changing. Where students were primarily taught using text books, wiring diagrams and old or out of service physical equipment, today’s computer literate students utilise Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) computer-based training devices that provide a desktop ’virtual system’ that looks, feels and reacts exactly like the real system.
Properly managed and modelled virtual maintenance training systems can recreate any complex system, to any level of detail. This is then dependent on a system creating a truly virtual free-play environment that allows the student to view and interact with the system in any way they want, and be confident that the consequences of their actions replicate precisely any interactions with the real equipment.
The real value of such a virtual free-play environment comes when an instructor has the ability to inject faults, the effects of which propagate through the equipment and result in symptoms which can be observed and then diagnosed by the student. This enables students to learn maintenance tasks such as fault isolation/detection, remove/replace procedures, operational/functional check, and maintenance task rehearsals.
This learning experience can be further enhanced by students’ ability to interface real or modelled equipment, such as test sets and prognostic systems, directly with the virtual system. This furthers the learning experience by allowing the maintenance technicians to learn how to operate the tools that they will go on to use in the operational role.
The main benefits of this approach over using real equipment can be summarised as:
1. Increased student throughput - The system is always available to the student. There is no requirement for the real system to be available, enabling maintenance procedures to be replicated many times on many single ‘virtual’ systems, such as high performance, fast jet aircraft.
2. Lower costs - providing real equipment requires a higher initial cost and incurs a high budget to support the in-service life span in terms of spares and repairs to frequently used equipment.
3. Safe training environment - students can not damage the equipment and can learn a job in a potentially harmful working environment without risk to themselves.
4. Ability to inject more realistic faults - Instructors can inject faults with ease and then immediately reset the system for the next task. The faults include diagnostic procedures that would be hard to replicate on real equipment without causing it serious damage.
5. Ability to aid instructor functionality - Instructors can monitor students as they undertake tasks; demonstrate particularly complex procedures for the students on their PC; record student performance and playback for debrief as well as evaluate and store student progress through an integrated learning management system.
6. Team Training Tasks - Many maintenance training tasks require maintenance technicians to work in teams. The virtual maintenance system allows students on individual computers to interact with each other and simultaneously undertake a team training task.
7. Multi-Configuration Scenarios - The majority of new military equipment now requires simultaneous training on a range of variants. An example of this is the JSF which comprises conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL), short takeoff vertical landing (STOVL) and carrier suitable (CV) variants. Systems such as the JSF are also likely to be in service for at least the next 30 years and there will be a requirement to upgrade component systems of the aircraft as technology continues to advance. Using a virtual maintenance training system, the instructor is able to quickly reconfigure the training simulation to any number of concurrent operational builds.
The economic and operational benefits that virtual maintenance training systems can deliver are well proven. However, some – such as VEGA group - believes it is the extent to which these maintenance training systems are now deployed that will determine the level of improved performance in front line equipment.
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What would be the advantage of Joint Strike Fighter ?
Why the US government are willing to dump $1 billion or $ trillion on JSF ?
The only advantage so far is to feed vanity dollars to an arms contractor, or in fact, several arms contractors. It is like ultrasophisticated corporate welfare, way beyond garden-variety pork. The 'Soviet menace' that these type of vehicles were designed to thwart by showing off superior technology is long gone.
This is tragic, as it also ensures that the troops on the ground continue to get poor supplies and no Hummers. Supplies for the soldiers and marines don't come from arms manufacturers, you see, and curiously enough, there seems to be no sense of pride in equipping the troops, or loss of ego for leaving them weak and ineffective.
CNO pays visit to Pax
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead came to NAS Patuxent River Monday. Taking the time to brief both the Patuxent Partnership and NAVAIR, he also toured some of the new planes that are in the testing and development phase here.
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