March 25, 2021
The Littoral Combat Ship Is Key To the Navy's Plans for Networked Warfare
Surface ships rely upon a host of interwoven technologies intended to share key data in real-time.
by Kris Osborn
Here's What You Need to Know: The Navy continues to make progress wiring its surface fleet for networked maritime warfare operations.
A Navy Littoral Combat Ship is conducting coastal patrols for reconnaissance and countermine missions when it suddenly comes upon or discovers an approaching fleet of enemy ships. How many of them are there? How far away are they? What weapons might they be armed with? All of these questions, potentially answered by drones, surveillance planes, or even space-based nodes, would need to be cataloged, stored, and transmitted quickly to larger, more heavily armed surface vessels such as carrier strike groups, fixed-wing aircraft, ground-based command and control, and other data systems able to perform data analysis and connect maritime warfare “nodes†to one another.
Surface ships such as the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), rely upon a host of interwoven technologies intended to share key data in real-time—such as threat and targeting information, radar signal processing and fire control systems, systems which would need to share data in real-time to optimize combat performance.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/littoral-combat-ship-key-navys-plans-networked-warfare-181042
