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thought I'd comment some just to get my post count up read a bit about SM-3 missiles and global security says it needs a second ship with some spiffy radar to help with target tracking. 15 DDG and 2 CG with the capability is pretty impressive http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sm3-deploy.htm

hahahahaha the digital age is here to stay, I want to go back to the days of radial engines and trottle knobs

looking forward to it.

SX = starmada X?

I'm sorry it was canceled too, but maybe it'll come back in the not so distant future?

Have you read The Complete Wargames Handbook by James F Dunnigan. It is free online at http://www.hyw.com/Books/wargamesHandbook/Contents.htm . I found the parts about the history of wargamming very good reading. He even writes about the use of a board wargame to help with determining our immediate...

I haven't seen it but there was a Macross series out in 2008 I've only saw 1 episode of that though, very CGI.

That's interesting, are there more of that article? seems a little short.

The U.S. Department of Defense has decided to make the next generation heavy bomber an unmanned aircraft. The Department of Defense also wants the new aircraft in service by the end of the next decade, some twenty years ahead of schedule.

I hope they call the data link Skynet?

something mentioned in the comments (last page) in your link. UAV-UAV air refueling, i wonder if anyone thought of the option of making UAV tankers. in my armchair general mode i'd think its the perfect application of UAV technology, an aircraft that have long endurance flying a preplanned pattern. ...

I read about the x-47 a long time ago and thought they canceled it, from what i read back then the software for controlling the carrier landing was recycled/modified and used on the F/A-18E/F. and my left shift key on the keyboard doesn't work :( edit also i notice a usaf style air-air refueling mar...

Interesting, I'd love to know what kind of rules they use.

I was thinking about exactly this just yesterday and funnily I was tracing back from the Roman empire too. Maybe sometime in the future there'll be days when wars are won or lost because a government managed to contract a company to exclusively maintain its equipments and denying its opponent the su...

down sizing only go so far, I'm getting the feeling that Washington is going to over do it if not already.

First impression I had when thinking of UAV in the military is the bad guys in video games.

Let me go spend the next week reading on Guadalcanal