Nesti
29-06-2009, 03:03 PM
Many years ago, back in 1988, I was involved in a military exercise called ‘Exercise Caltrop Force’. This was a joint nation exercise who’s sole purpose was to test "multi-national interoperability”, these were the exact words! The exercise itself involved the ABCA forces (America, [Great] Britain, Canada and Australia). After an unprecedented 7 MONTHS urban warfare training, we then participated in 6 weeks of warfare exercises in the high mountain plateaus of California.
To test new systems at the Pentagon, we all used ‘Miles’ equipment, essentially detectors which received near miss or direct hit information from enemy IR lasers. The blanks which our rifles, rocket launchers, missiles etc fired, were audibly detected, and then a small laser mounted on the weapons and sighted to the weapon would fire. Receivers would score near misses and direct hits, and tallies were transmitted to local store-n-forward communication centres, and then onto the Pentagon. So the Pentagon could see that war unfolding almost live! Everything had it, from a soldier's helmet, to an Apache attack helicopter...even the F16 were fitted, mind you, only a surface to air missile had the right freq laser to score a kill, and a rifle couldn't destroy a tank, you dig?!
It was a great success and we had the biggest barbeque and piss-up imaginable on the last day (golf clap from the Pentagon). Kill to death ratios were also disseminated to all units, even every soldier knew; quite amazing really.
Two or so years later, the first Gulf War broke out, surprise-surprise!!!
Several years ago, I wondered what would be the true power of a system which could, in effect, link together all communications and weaponry, military, police, Coast Guard etc, to a central command. Boeing’s Future Combat Systems, which has been in progress for over two decades does just that. It can link the soldier on the ground to a satellite for communications direct to the War Room, or even patch the soldier directly through to an Apache Gunner or Gunner on a battle ship. Effectively it can link the low level operations to any asset imaginable, even to order more blankets, pizzas and beers (I wish).
This system is not regionally restricted, satellites can be tasked to coordinate forces almost anywhere on the planet. But this system has come at an obscene cost, with 34 million lines of code written as of 2003, and an expected official cost of US$340 Billion. It’s a great project to throw hundreds of billion of dollars into, and then hundreds of billions in upgrades and ongoing maintenance.
Anyway, after getting to understand what ‘Future Combat Systems’ actually offers, I realized that it wasn’t control, it was in fact controlling power, and at any location. There’s a really big difference.
Recently, I watched a Vid on the Tube, which talks about the US Fed, how it was formed, what it does, and why is there a ‘Bill’ which is now being rallied through congress to abandon it. In it, the author of the book, ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’, discusses some disturbing topics. Ultimately, he hit upon the end result being power, and that money is merely a tool. But in any war, it’s not just the act of taking ground, you’ve got to HOLD the ground. This includes any resources.
If you have a watch of the 7 vids (about 70min in all), then read up on what FCS is and does, it doesn’t take Einstein to work out that this system wasn’t designed to fight ‘A’ war, or ‘A’ conflict; it was designed for ‘Regional Control’ at the lowest level, ‘Low Level Operations’ at scales where a single soldier or perhaps police officer, could sieze and hold ground.
They’ve hidden a great portion of the budget under the guise of building newer hardware, which was a pure wish-list of futuristic vehicles the defence department knew it would never see emerge, but all this has just been canned, now it’s all about the info-war projects.
http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jdw/jdw090625_1_n.shtml
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2009/06/22/daily49.html
So, was FCS about a military-wide upgrade, or was it a disguise for an info-war technology program, aimed perhaps not only military, but perhaps even US’s ‘Homeland Defence…Civil Defence!!! Put simply, was FCS conceived for war-time control, or peace-time control??? Keep in mind the movie “Blue Thunder”.
Anyway, you be the judge.
The Fed;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3TAh1gy6rc&feature=PlayList&p=083C2606BE933C19&index=0
Congressman Ron Paul may have a grassy knoll out there with his name on it.
The Bill to kill and/or audit the Fed;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF0o_aj4inM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeb2VnI7S4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDMvSJiK1I4
FCS;
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/ic/fcs/bia/
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/fcs.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Systems
Cheers
Mark
To test new systems at the Pentagon, we all used ‘Miles’ equipment, essentially detectors which received near miss or direct hit information from enemy IR lasers. The blanks which our rifles, rocket launchers, missiles etc fired, were audibly detected, and then a small laser mounted on the weapons and sighted to the weapon would fire. Receivers would score near misses and direct hits, and tallies were transmitted to local store-n-forward communication centres, and then onto the Pentagon. So the Pentagon could see that war unfolding almost live! Everything had it, from a soldier's helmet, to an Apache attack helicopter...even the F16 were fitted, mind you, only a surface to air missile had the right freq laser to score a kill, and a rifle couldn't destroy a tank, you dig?!
It was a great success and we had the biggest barbeque and piss-up imaginable on the last day (golf clap from the Pentagon). Kill to death ratios were also disseminated to all units, even every soldier knew; quite amazing really.
Two or so years later, the first Gulf War broke out, surprise-surprise!!!
Several years ago, I wondered what would be the true power of a system which could, in effect, link together all communications and weaponry, military, police, Coast Guard etc, to a central command. Boeing’s Future Combat Systems, which has been in progress for over two decades does just that. It can link the soldier on the ground to a satellite for communications direct to the War Room, or even patch the soldier directly through to an Apache Gunner or Gunner on a battle ship. Effectively it can link the low level operations to any asset imaginable, even to order more blankets, pizzas and beers (I wish).
This system is not regionally restricted, satellites can be tasked to coordinate forces almost anywhere on the planet. But this system has come at an obscene cost, with 34 million lines of code written as of 2003, and an expected official cost of US$340 Billion. It’s a great project to throw hundreds of billion of dollars into, and then hundreds of billions in upgrades and ongoing maintenance.
Anyway, after getting to understand what ‘Future Combat Systems’ actually offers, I realized that it wasn’t control, it was in fact controlling power, and at any location. There’s a really big difference.
Recently, I watched a Vid on the Tube, which talks about the US Fed, how it was formed, what it does, and why is there a ‘Bill’ which is now being rallied through congress to abandon it. In it, the author of the book, ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’, discusses some disturbing topics. Ultimately, he hit upon the end result being power, and that money is merely a tool. But in any war, it’s not just the act of taking ground, you’ve got to HOLD the ground. This includes any resources.
If you have a watch of the 7 vids (about 70min in all), then read up on what FCS is and does, it doesn’t take Einstein to work out that this system wasn’t designed to fight ‘A’ war, or ‘A’ conflict; it was designed for ‘Regional Control’ at the lowest level, ‘Low Level Operations’ at scales where a single soldier or perhaps police officer, could sieze and hold ground.
They’ve hidden a great portion of the budget under the guise of building newer hardware, which was a pure wish-list of futuristic vehicles the defence department knew it would never see emerge, but all this has just been canned, now it’s all about the info-war projects.
http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jdw/jdw090625_1_n.shtml
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2009/06/22/daily49.html
So, was FCS about a military-wide upgrade, or was it a disguise for an info-war technology program, aimed perhaps not only military, but perhaps even US’s ‘Homeland Defence…Civil Defence!!! Put simply, was FCS conceived for war-time control, or peace-time control??? Keep in mind the movie “Blue Thunder”.
Anyway, you be the judge.
The Fed;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3TAh1gy6rc&feature=PlayList&p=083C2606BE933C19&index=0
Congressman Ron Paul may have a grassy knoll out there with his name on it.
The Bill to kill and/or audit the Fed;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF0o_aj4inM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeb2VnI7S4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDMvSJiK1I4
FCS;
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/ic/fcs/bia/
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/fcs.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Systems
Cheers
Mark