We should be able to use Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) on either aircraft or drones combined with optical imagery and signal intelligence data fed into a trained AI system to locate these anomalies in the water.
If you think the US military would retire its mind sweeping capability if it didn't have something better to replace it with.... Well you need to think a bit harder.
The government doesn't give up its toys unless it replaces it with something better That's more fun to play with.
It is not that the newer tech is bad. It's not. It is at this moment simply a victim of inconvenient timing. They almost retired the A10 - several times and we are all glad they didn't. Budgets have a way of forcing the military into decisions like this.
Those wooden hulled Avenger class ships are now in salvage. The newer Littorals have a missions package of various mine hunter technologies that have yet to show they can effectively find mines. That missions package failed its own detection trials and the Navy officially stated thus saying, they "could not determine the operational effectiveness or reliability of the system." That is all public knowledge. The Pentagon report was released in March of this year.
One of the main problems for the Littoral missions package from what I understand is that there has not been the data library accumulated yet along with the institutional knowledge to allow operators, and even AI, to distinguish between actual mines and signal noise. That library will be built through actual use in order to dial it in - just like it is with every other systems library we use. They will get there. It just may take a little more time. The MEUs being sent into the area also have some mine sweeping capabilities. The Tripoli is already in theater and the Boxer was on the way. So it is not like we have no options. However, in high stakes combat situations we would have preferred to have a stronger hand going into this.
Well in my original comment I talked about combining data from three different sources and running it through AI. Your original response was only about one of those sources so it was a misrepresentation or a strawman of my entire point.
I remind you we have the technology to detect a specific heartbeat from the air from a great distance away that The general public didn't know about until just this week.
Machine learning excels at detecting anomalies and pattern recognition. It's just a matter of putting the data in and I doubt with millions and millions of dollars in contracts on the table that some government contractor hasn't put in this work already for all types of applications in underwater detection.
Lol what a cluster fuck.
We should be able to use Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) on either aircraft or drones combined with optical imagery and signal intelligence data fed into a trained AI system to locate these anomalies in the water.
I heard that the CIA has a device that can spot the heartbeat of a mine from 40 miles away
I know they can map some geological structures using SAR, but locating mines? I don't think so. At least not yet.
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If you think the US military would retire its mind sweeping capability if it didn't have something better to replace it with.... Well you need to think a bit harder.
The government doesn't give up its toys unless it replaces it with something better That's more fun to play with.
It is not that the newer tech is bad. It's not. It is at this moment simply a victim of inconvenient timing. They almost retired the A10 - several times and we are all glad they didn't. Budgets have a way of forcing the military into decisions like this.
Those wooden hulled Avenger class ships are now in salvage. The newer Littorals have a missions package of various mine hunter technologies that have yet to show they can effectively find mines. That missions package failed its own detection trials and the Navy officially stated thus saying, they "could not determine the operational effectiveness or reliability of the system." That is all public knowledge. The Pentagon report was released in March of this year.
One of the main problems for the Littoral missions package from what I understand is that there has not been the data library accumulated yet along with the institutional knowledge to allow operators, and even AI, to distinguish between actual mines and signal noise. That library will be built through actual use in order to dial it in - just like it is with every other systems library we use. They will get there. It just may take a little more time. The MEUs being sent into the area also have some mine sweeping capabilities. The Tripoli is already in theater and the Boxer was on the way. So it is not like we have no options. However, in high stakes combat situations we would have preferred to have a stronger hand going into this.
Well in my original comment I talked about combining data from three different sources and running it through AI. Your original response was only about one of those sources so it was a misrepresentation or a strawman of my entire point.
I remind you we have the technology to detect a specific heartbeat from the air from a great distance away that The general public didn't know about until just this week.
Machine learning excels at detecting anomalies and pattern recognition. It's just a matter of putting the data in and I doubt with millions and millions of dollars in contracts on the table that some government contractor hasn't put in this work already for all types of applications in underwater detection.