{"id":51165,"date":"2023-11-29T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=51165"},"modified":"2023-11-29T17:09:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:09:35","slug":"littoral-combat-ship-unmanned-systems-pair-up-to-advance-lethality-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=51165","title":{"rendered":"Littoral Combat Ship, Unmanned Systems Pair Up to Advance Lethality in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Digital Talon 2.0, the second exercise of its type in as many months, showcased \u201cmanned-unmanned teaming\u201d by meshing together Indianapolis, three unmanned surface vehicles, and an unmanned aerial vehicle to create a single common operating picture and what is known as a \u201cmesh network\u201d providing targeting data to all stations taking part in the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>NAVCENT\u2019s Task Force 59 \u2013 the Navy\u2019s first Unmanned and Artificial Intelligence Task Force \u2013 partnered with Indianapolis to demonstrate the ability of unmanned platforms to pair with traditionally crewed ships. The manned and unmanned teams identified, targeted, engaged and then destroyed simulated hostile forces at sea, represented through the use of a target boat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis second iteration of Digital Talon continues building on our earlier successes,\u201d said Capt. Colin Corridan, TF-59 commodore. \u201cWe keep progressing toward fulfilling NAVCENT\u2019s priorities of deterrence and de-escalation by demonstrating live firing from a tight \u2018manned-unmanned teaming\u2019 model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In multiple firing events, a T-38 Devil Ray unmanned surface vessel (USV), equipped with a Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System, and successfully scored direct hits on the target boat each time. As with the previous Digital Talon exercise, a human operator ashore at TF-59\u2019s Robotics Operations Center made the engagement decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The unmanned vehicles taking part in the exercise included a Flexrotor unmanned aerial vehicle; an Arabian Fox MAST-13 USV; and an additional T-38 Devil Ray USV.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Talon 2.0 took a significant step forward, Collidan said, noting the results from this event, \u201chave proven these unmanned platforms paired with our manned combat ships can enhance fleet lethality. In doing so, we are strengthening regional maritime security and enhancing deterrence against malign activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Naval Forces Central Command\/U.S. 5th Fleet\u2019s area of operations encompasses about 2.5 million square miles of water area and includes the Arabian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean. This expanse, comprising 21 nations, includes three critical choke points at the Strait of Hormuz, the Suez Canal and the Strait of Bab al Mandeb.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">-30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Talon 2.0, the second exercise of its type in as many months, showcased \u201cmanned-unmanned teaming\u201d by meshing together Indianapolis, three unmanned surface vehicles, and an unmanned aerial vehicle to create a single common operating picture and what is known as a \u201cmesh network\u201d providing targeting data to all stations taking part in the exercise. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":51167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51168,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51165\/revisions\/51168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}