Enemy Missiles Sensors v US Blueprints?  

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men/Gang aft a-gley.” ― Robert Burns

Enemy Missiles Sensors v US Blueprints? Hmm, ‘Fast & Furious’ Roadrunners v Coyotes?

DOD, clearly, you do not possess the “single most important program element hypersonic defense” no matter the angle or what you call azimuth.

Defense Officials discussed challenges of Space, Airborne and Hypersonic Missiles. Lockheed, hear you made this event possible. Funny, on same date five years ago, 12.18.2018, President Xi Jinping proclaimed China’s Reform Policies. “Comrades and Friends, innovation and talents are key.”  Yes, but TIMING is……….!

Miss the Missiles, or, strike out no matter how sure fire your blueprints are? Ask Wile E. Coyote. Heard of your bombing in Iraq. But thinking like Wile works in the desert. But as you see Space or Sea is not the Middle East. Best you talk to a Road Runner!  

Tom asked ‘how do we go about refining the fire control requirements?’

John, on your wish list? ‘Range of missiles, night range interceptors that can be going thousands of kilometers and your sensor coverage has to be able to cover transregionally, globally…”

Richard Ritter, Program Executive Missile Defense Agency->Sensors, Command and Control, Sir, you say ‘our role is fire control, we understand fire control loop and take the enemy out.’ Just be sure it does not BACKFIRE!

Gentle Men, China made it pretty clear – you need to play by their rules or not play at all.

Air Defense is not as complex as you think. Tom, US appears to be getting better at warning v tracking. Agree, tracking necessary but need to be response ready cowboy. Hard offense follows a good defense.

Masao, as to ‘data quality you give to the war fighter’: With all pieces in place, how will you defend against breached data? Trust Japan to share? Recall, changes can change dynamics of variables. Or what you note as “new vulnerabilities into the system.” Right, as you state, you aren’t systems engineers.

Asked Lockheed how smart is their ‘smartset’?  China, asked Boeing? Appears you take Max’s word at face value. BTW, make the Space RCO list?

Boeing, ‘Collisions are on the rise’ says NTSB. When China awakes to find Max, will it be a dream or nightmare? China, no ‘pressure point’? Lesson from Japan Airlines? Crash of 747SR killed over 500. NTSB reported ‘Flawed Design’, improper Bulkhead replacement leading to problem with hydraulics.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) warns of, ‘Close calls and near misses.’ I can see why. Read your 2012 “Selection of the Next Generation of Air Traffic Control Specialists. Challenges: Transformation of NAS into “NextGen” and Recruitment of ATCs.”

Britain, recall your close call, ‘The Heathrow Enigma’? Right, no matter how good ‘electronic brain’ in plane or today’s ‘supercomputer,’ need to prepare for element of surprise: extreme weather, birds, and UNKNOWN factor. Microsoft, working on this?

Lockheed and Boeing, are your birds better prepared than systems of top banks and investment firms from getting HACKED? 🙂

John, right, ‘ideally you want to find things before they’re launched.’ Agree, response ready v just ‘missile defense,’ Sensors v ‘getting on track.’

You see, Adversaries advance as you’re held back by ‘policy debate.’ Hmm, Dr. Kelly Hammett doesn’t seem to have that problem. BYT, where’s Dr. Hammett? Still at AMOS in Maui playing golf? Hammett, discovered Space RCO can no longer claim: ‘Ego sum ille qui pulsat.’

Rick, my hat goes off to you! “Missile warning is it’s launched. It doesn’t answer the question where is it going.” Right, the PowersThatBe as ‘the political party in power want to know where is it going, how soon do I have and what do I gotta to do? I can’t do that with the existing systems.”

John, Nuclear Testing and Deterrence is a misnomer. All nations, starting with the USA are ‘desperate that they want to do that kind of damage to the world’s use of space…’ Or, NEED to.

Threats? Rick, appears you’ve been reading my reports. “The threat is changing drastically. The Koreans are catching up. We use to treat them like the Third World whatever. They’re getting closer and closer to peer peer kind of stuff.  We need to start focusing down on that ‘neck of the woods’ too. You know where I’m getting at.” 

Yes, Rick, I do. But let’s face it. WHERE is easily deciphered. Question is, how much TIME you got!  I remind you “The machine has only one moving part.”    

Gentle Men, Tis I who is knocking! Beep, Beep!  🙂