What is in Our Navy’s “Big Closet?”

[rangerrebew]

What is in Our Navy’s “Big Closet?”
By CDRSalamander | August 5, 2020
 
 
For those who remember the dawn of the Age of Transformationalism at the turn of the century, this sounds familiar;

    Under the Navy’s DMO vision, rather than deploying concentrated strike groups to a few places around the globe, the Navy would have many dispersed ships and planes that could share data to create a combined picture of the battlespace.

    He described the future fight as a combination of aircraft, ships, submarines and ground vehicles – manned and unmanned – all with sensors and communications devices, feeding data into a battle management system. The challenge will be the ordnance-to-target ratio and picking out the right targets to control the fight. Before the fight starts, the U.S. needs to ensure it has control of the EM spectrum so that network of platforms can communicate, sense and target.

https://blog.usni.org/posts/2020/08/05/what-is-in-our-navys-big-closet

[AL]

I just hope all this technology is rock solid dependable.  In war you can't call a timeout for a re-boot.

[sneakypete]

Here is MY question.

WHO is our big Navy supposed to be facing off with?

China,who only has one carrier,and they can't get it working well enough to leave home port?

Russia,who mostly stays home and doesn't really give a squat about the US anymore?

Yeah,we might need a couple of carriers and the existing fleet of nuke subs,but other than support ships like oilers,why are we keeping the rest of them at sea?