1000 personnel from 3rd (UK) Division are deploying to Ford Bragg this month for the biggest divisional headquarters training in decades. During Exercise Warfighter the group will be fighting under the command of the 18th Airborne Corps.
Re: United States
Posted: 08 Mar 2018, 13:07
by NickC
Defense Department spent $7.4 billion on artificial intelligence related areas in 2017, WSJ.
Revealed March 6 Google was contracted by DoD under Project Maven to use its TensorFlow, artificial intelligence software with machine learning ability to identify 38 classes of objects of interest in millions of hours in drone footage from Africa/Iraq/Syria/Yemen, footage so vast that human analysts can’t keep up.
In the near future can envisage it as the new paradigm in targeting and you can see many uses of the open source artificial intelligence/machine learning Google TensorFlow software or similar eg in radar and sonar enabling an order of magnitude improvement in identifying enemy targets. With ships under attack by supersonic ASCMs, BrahMos, warning time measured in seconds, need totally AI robotic defence as human operators too slow, question is software good enough to identify friend, foe, false targets on firing Phalanx/CAMM.
Timmymagic wrote:Looks like the Royal Marines are enjoying themselves again....
I hate journalistic puff pieces like this.
They always invariably don't stand up to close scrutiny and will be resented by the allies in question because the details of this exercise will almost have certainly been leaked by someone in the RM, who is present at the exercise.
People should keep their mouths shut.
Re: United States
Posted: 24 Jan 2023, 12:23
by SKB
Exercise Red Flag 2023
(Forces News) 20th January 2023
A large Royal Air Force detachment of more than 300 personnel has arrived in the US to take part in a major training exercise.
Typhoon and Voyager crews and pilots from RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Brize Norton have deployed to Nevada, together with ground support personnel from across the Air Force.
Exercise Red Flag 2023 will see RAF jets join forces with combat aircraft from the United States Air Force, US Navy, US Marine Corps and the Royal Australian Air Force.
All personnel taking part in the exercise will face simulated ground-based air defence systems, aggressor aircraft that will simulate a peer adversary, and cyber and space-based threats, all whilst simulated combat missions are being planned conducted and debriefed.
Group Captain Roger Elliott, the RAF Detachment Commander for the exercise, said it has taken months for the teams to be prepared for this demanding exercise.
The RAF Detachment Commander added: "This is the most rigorous training that the Royal Air Force participates in. Everyone deployed to Nellis will learn how to do their job under the most testing conditions, in the world's best combat training environment; this is an enormous opportunity to prepare for the most difficult operations with our US and Australian allies."
Exercise Red Flag has been a regular fixture on the RAF Exercise programme since the late 1970s and this exercise will be based at the United States Air Force's Nellis Air Base.
The objective of the exercise for participants is to develop capabilities in a high-threat and contested environment against a near peer adversary, the RAF said.