Moderadores: Lepanto, poliorcetes, Edu, Orel
Lepanto escribió:A vueltas con la oficina de presupuesto del congreso, el futuro DDX destinado a reemplazar a los destructores Arleigh Burke de primera generación y los últimos cruceros de la clase Ticonderoga, podría costar 3,4 millones de dólares, mil millones más de lo planeado, más del 40%, sin tomar en cuenta el armamento, sobre la base de una extrapolación de costos de producción del Arleigh Burke Flight III, y sin tomar en cuenta el efecto de la inflación.
Al mismo tiempo, el futuro submarino de ataque nuclear del programa SSN(x), que reforzará los SNA de clase Virginia costará entre 6,2 y 7,4 millones de dólares por unidad, un incremento significativo respecto a los 5,4 millones de dólares previstos por el plan actual, y sobre todo casi el doble de caros que los actuales SNA de la clase Virginia Block V, que ya superaban los 3,2 millones de dólares por unidad, más del doble de un Suffren frances.
Y el Subsecretario Adjunto de Adquisiciones de la Fuerza Aérea, asombró a la audiencia al decir que China estaba produciendo su equipo militar "6 veces más rápido y 20 veces más barato" que la industria de defensa estadounidense. Y parece que esta trayectoria, por insostenible que parezca para USA y sus ejércitos, no está destinada a evolucionar positivamente como se dice n los dos párrafos anteriores.
Lepanto escribió:A vueltas con la oficina de presupuesto del congreso, el futuro DDX destinado a reemplazar a los destructores Arleigh Burke de primera generación y los últimos cruceros de la clase Ticonderoga, podría costar 3,4 millones de dólares, mil millones más de lo planeado, más del 40%, sin tomar en cuenta el armamento, sobre la base de una extrapolación de costos de producción del Arleigh Burke Flight III, y sin tomar en cuenta el efecto de la inflación.
Al mismo tiempo, el futuro submarino de ataque nuclear del programa SSN(x), que reforzará los SNA de clase Virginia costará entre 6,2 y 7,4 millones de dólares por unidad, un incremento significativo respecto a los 5,4 millones de dólares previstos por el plan actual, y sobre todo casi el doble de caros que los actuales SNA de la clase Virginia Block V, que ya superaban los 3,2 millones de dólares por unidad, más del doble de un Suffren frances.
Y el Subsecretario Adjunto de Adquisiciones de la Fuerza Aérea, asombró a la audiencia al decir que China estaba produciendo su equipo militar "6 veces más rápido y 20 veces más barato" que la industria de defensa estadounidense. Y parece que esta trayectoria, por insostenible que parezca para USA y sus ejércitos, no está destinada a evolucionar positivamente como se dice n los dos párrafos anteriores.
Fewer A-10s but protections for F-22s, EA-18Gs and F-15s in US defence spending bill
9 December 2022
The US military’s annual defence spending bill – the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – is as much political document as strategic blueprint. Lawmakers, who have ultimate say over the Pentagon’s budget, often disagree with generals and staff at the Department of Defense (DoD) on issues ranging from aircraft procurement to fleet size.
In the fiscal year 2023 NDAA bipartisan agreement released on 6 December, legislators acquiesced to some fleet reductions long sought by Pentagon brass, while blocking others. The bill has been passed by the House of Representatives. It now heads to the US Senate and is expected to be signed into law by President Joe Biden before year-end.
A-10
The US Air Force (USAF) has for years tried unsuccessfully to reduce its fleet of A-10... However, the DoD’s proposed reductions have repeatedly been thwarted by Congress... It now appears the USAF will, at least partially, get its wish in 2023. The latest NDAA would authorise a reduction of 18 A-10 airframes, to a minimum fleet requirement of 153. That is fewer than the 42 A-10s the USAF sought to cut in last year’s NDAA, and close to the 21-count reduction the service proposed in its FY2023 budget request.
F-15
...The USAF wants to retire older F-15C/D models as it builds out its fleet with the latest F-15EX variant... However, some members of Congress have expressed concern the USAF is investing too much in old technology; funds that could be used to buy more F-35s... The NDAA would prohibit the USAF from divesting F-15s without first submitting a report detailing operational and fiscal impacts and how it will mitigate negative effects, including how it intends to replace capabilities lost through divestment. That may impact some USAF plans... it may have to rethink plans to mothball older Eagles.
F-22
...To that end, Congress has repeatedly subverted USAF efforts to retire some older block F-22... Lawmakers again put their collective foot down on any notion of reducing the F-22 fleet. The 2023 NDAA draft contains a hard prohibition on Raptor retirements and sets a firm fleet minimum of 184 aircraft. The bill also requires the USAF to develop a plan for “avoiding the diminishing combat effectiveness of all block variants of F-22 aircraft”, and requires the service upgrade Block 20 Raptors to Block 30/35 capabilities.
Air tankers
The NDAA would allow the USAF to shrink its air tanker fleet to 466 aircraft, down from a previous requirement of 479. It would repeal an earlier limitation on retiring of Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers, but permit the service to retire 12 Stratotankers in the air force reserve. The 2023 NDAA draft also seeks to give the DoD more leeway in contracting for development of a so-called “bridge tanker”, leaving open the possibility the programme could be awarded without a competition. It does so by dropping an earlier provision that would have required the USAF complete a “full and open competition”. Known officially as the KC-Y programme, the bridge tanker is meant to be a transitional aircraft, serving during the period between the USAF’s operation of troubled KC-46 (once known as KC-X) and service entry of a still-theoretical KC-Z to be delivered in the 2030s. Lockheed has said it will propose its LMXT design for the KC-Y programme, be built on an A330 MRTT. Boeing has countered that a modified KC-46 could adequately fill the KC-Y role.
C-130
The 2023 NDAA draft would require the USAF to maintain a minimum of 271 C-130 through at least 30 September 2023. The bill also prohibits the USAF from retiring C-130s with the ANG and reserve components. The USAF operates about 330 C-130s, according to Cirium fleets data.
E-3
Congress is offering the USAF an incentive to modernise its ageing fleet of E-3. The 2023 NDAA would prohibit E-3 retirements unless the USAF submits an acquisition strategy for the E-7. It would also allow the USAF reduce its Sentry fleet to as few as 18 aircraft – a nearly 50% reduction, according to Cirium data – if a contract is awarded for E-7 acquisition.
HH-60W and CH-53K
In good news for Lockheed subsidiary Sikorsky, which recently lost its bid to produce the US Army’s FLRAA, Congress will protect production of Sikorsky’s new CSARhelicopter. The USAF has plans to acquire up to 113 HH60W. The 2023 NDAA would prohibit the use of any funds “to terminate the operations of, or to prepare to terminate the operations of, a production line” for the type. The bill would also authorise the US Navy (USN) enter into new fixed-price procurement contracts for the CH-53K, which is acquiring for the USMC.
EA-18G
The NDAA would mandate a minimum fleet of 158 EA-18Gs – the same number now operated by the USN, according to Cirium data. It would also direct the USN and USAF to develop a strategy “for continuously and effectively meeting the airborne electronic attack, training and combat requirements of the joint force”. Additionally, the bill would require creation of a joint land-based electronic-attack aircraft squadron.
E-6
The NDAA draft would restrict the USAF from retiring E-6 Mercury, of which Cirium shows the USAF has 16. Without specifying types, the draft would stipulate that no E-6s may be retired until a suitable replacement reaches initial operating capability.
Notable Exceptions
House and Senate lawmakers did not agree on some aircraft programmes, which were noted in the NDAA’s legislative summary.
- The NDAA draft does not, for instance, include a House proposal that the USN receive an additional $350 million to acquire more F-35Cs.
- Congress also failed to agree on a rule prohibiting the USN from reducing its Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 85 (HSC-85), a reserve unit that provides expeditionary aviation support to special operations troops and maritime search and rescue. Jack McCain, son of the late senator and naval fighter pilot John McCain, is an aviator in HSC-85, which operates MH-60H.
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Orel escribió:EA-18G
The NDAA would mandate a minimum fleet of 158 EA-18Gs – the same number now operated by the USN, according to Cirium data. It would also direct the USN and USAF to develop a strategy “for continuously and effectively meeting the airborne electronic attack, training and combat requirements of the joint force”. Additionally, the bill would require creation of a joint land-based electronic-attack aircraft squadron.
El caso curioso sobre el futuro del EA-18G Growler de Boeing. Operado por tripulación aérea conjunta de la Marina de los EE. UU. y la USAF, el Growler ha sido nombrado en numerosas ocasiones por haberse vuelto obsoleto. El 27 de abril de 2022, la revista Scramble escribió sobre la posible desactivación de los escuadrones de ataque electrónico (expedicionarios).. Con la entrada en servicio de más aviones "All fusion", como el Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, los últimos años operativos del Growler ahora parecen estar contados. Los funcionarios de la NDAA ahora exigen un informe que describa una estrategia y un plan de ejecución para que la Armada y la Fuerza Aérea cumplan de manera continua y efectiva los requisitos de entrenamiento y combate de ataques electrónicos aerotransportados de la Fuerza Conjunta, para incluir el establecimiento o la continuación de uno o más conjuntos con base en tierra. escuadrones de ataque electrónico de servicio e integración de componentes tanto activos como de reserva de ambos servicios.
Para mantener la flota EA-18G hasta el año fiscal 2027, existe la posibilidad de que los Growlers se transfieran a los escuadrones expedicionarios de la Reserva de la Armada e incluso se habla de establecer escuadrones de ataque electrónico terrestres expedicionarios de servicio conjunto dentro de la Guardia Nacional Aérea o Reservas de la Fuerza Aérea.
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NAVY
BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc., Rockville, Maryland (N00039-23-D-9001); DRS Laurel Technologies, Johnstown, Pennsylvania (N00039-23-D-9002); Management Services Group, doing business as Global Technical Systems, Virginia Beach, Virginia (N00039-23-D-9003); L3Harris, Camden, New Jersey (N00039-23-D-9004); Leidos, Reston, Virginia (N00039-23-D-9005); Peraton, Herndon, Virginia (N00039-23-D-9006); Serco, Herndon, Virginia (N00039-23-D-9007); and VT Milcom, Virginia Beach, Virginia (N00039-23-D-9008), are awarded a $4,098,600,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract for Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) production units, software – initial, renewals and maintenance, spares and system components, and lab equipment. CANES is the Navy's program of record that consolidates and replaces existing afloat networks providing the necessary infrastructure for applications, systems and services required to dominate the cyber warfare tactical domain. CANES represents a key aspect of the Navy's modernization planning by upgrading cybersecurity, command and control, communications and intelligence systems afloat, and by replacing unaffordable and obsolete networks. The primary goals of the CANES program are to: 1) Provide a secure afloat network required for Naval and Joint Operations; 2) Consolidate and reduce the number of afloat networks through the use of Common Computing Environment and mature cross domain technologies; 3) Reduce the infrastructure footprint and associated Logistics, Sustainment, and Training costs; and 4) Increase reliability, security, interoperability and application hosting to meet current and projected warfighter requirements. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama; San Diego, California; Largo, Florida; Ayer, Massachusetts; Long Beach, Mississippi; Camden, New Jersey; Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Summerville, South Carolina; Clarksville, Virginia; Gainesville, Virginia; Sterling, Virginia; and Virginia Beach, Virginia. Work is expected to be completed by December 2032. Contract actions will be issued and funds obligated as individual delivery orders. Other procurement (Navy) funds will be placed on contract with an initial delivery order issued to each contractor on record at the time of award. This contract has a 10-year ordering period up to the contract award amount. There are no options. The multiple award contract was competitively procured by full and open competition bids via the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) e-Commerce Central and the Federal Business Opportunities websites, with 10 offers received. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity.
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Nuestros pilotos de combate en la Floan vendrían a ser cuantitativamente una rayita de esas que apenas se distinguen de los píxeles.
Y los de helicópteros, quizás otras dos, si llegan.
By Megan Eckstein
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“I’m not as forgiving of the defense industrial base,” Adm. Daryl Caudle, the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said Jan. 11. “I am not forgiving the fact that they’re not delivering the ordnance we need, I’m just not.”
“All this stuff about COVID this, parts, supply chain this, I just don’t really care,” he continued. “I need [Standard Missile]-6s delivered on time. I need more [torpedoes] delivered on time.”
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The Navy is buying two submarines a year, but industry is only delivering at a rate of 1.2 a year.
“In five years, instead of delivering 10 fast attack submarines, I got six. Where’s the other four? My force is already four submarines short,” Caudle said. Ships coming out of maintenance availabilities late, both at Navy public yards and private industry yards, worsens the problem. While the Navy should have 10 of its 50 subs in deep maintenance, 19 are in or awaiting repairs.
“Imagine if I was on time, my submarine force would be nine ships larger. That is a significant number,” he said.
Caudle noted that if the Navy had ready its 75 mission-capable ships, “their magazines wouldn’t all be full.”
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champi escribió:La US Navy se queja de que no recibe todo lo que quiere, ni en reparaciones, ni en entregas nuevas ni en municiones: https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2023/ ... eliveries/By Megan Eckstein
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“I’m not as forgiving of the defense industrial base,” Adm. Daryl Caudle, the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said Jan. 11. “I am not forgiving the fact that they’re not delivering the ordnance we need, I’m just not.”
“All this stuff about COVID this, parts, supply chain this, I just don’t really care,” he continued. “I need [Standard Missile]-6s delivered on time. I need more [torpedoes] delivered on time.”
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The Navy is buying two submarines a year, but industry is only delivering at a rate of 1.2 a year.
“In five years, instead of delivering 10 fast attack submarines, I got six. Where’s the other four? My force is already four submarines short,” Caudle said. Ships coming out of maintenance availabilities late, both at Navy public yards and private industry yards, worsens the problem. While the Navy should have 10 of its 50 subs in deep maintenance, 19 are in or awaiting repairs.
“Imagine if I was on time, my submarine force would be nine ships larger. That is a significant number,” he said.
Caudle noted that if the Navy had ready its 75 mission-capable ships, “their magazines wouldn’t all be full.”
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