US Navy Prepares to Connect Newest Carrier to Other Warships

[Peter1469]

US Navy Prepares to Connect Newest Carrier to Other Warships

The idea is to connect data and voice throughout the strike group and even to other strike groups. This will greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the Navy.

“We’d love to get Ford to start doing some basic interaction with the rest of a strike group type of organization,” Rear Adm. Craig Clapperton, commander of Carrier Strike Group 12, said on a Monday conference call with reporters. “We are going to…try to do some basic building-block-type things.”

That means connecting the ship electronically with other aircraft carriers, destroyers, cruisers, aircraft and land-based headquarters around the world. Ford is also expected to link up electronically with the Harry Truman, another aircraft carrier in the Atlantic.


“The links that are required to have a carrier strike group operate are expansive,” Capt. J. J. Cummings, the Ford’s commanding officer, said on the call.


Setting up these classified and unclassified links will allow the ships and planes to share intelligence and other battle information, including the location of friendly and enemy ships, submarines, and aircraft.


“As a strike group, it’s incredibly important to be able to pull together that full air, surface and sub-surface picture, share it with the rest of the strike group…to enable the full scale of military operations from a strike group,” Clapperton said. “We’re going to take the very first steps of that here over the next couple of weeks.

[nathanbforrest45]

Not quite sure what he is talking about unless he means that all information gathered by every vessel or aircraft is automatically shared by every other vessel simultaneously. If that is the case that would make for a very formidable strike force, the entire flotilla could be operated as one single unit.

[Peter1469]

Not quite sure what he is talking about unless he means that all information gathered by every vessel or aircraft is automatically shared by every other vessel simultaneously. If that is the case that would make for a very formidable strike force, the entire flotilla could be operated as one single unit.

That is what I took from the article.

[MMC]

As long as they can prevent the Chinese, Russians, and others from hacking into it. Then its all good.

[Adelaide]

Immediately thought of Battlestar, @Peter1469.

[Peter1469]

Immediately thought of Battlestar, @Peter1469.

Yup, BSG.