The US Navy has a new trick up its sleeve, and it could be a game changer

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel it surely is a game changer:
The Navy has lately been focused on a concept called "distributed lethality," or equipping even its smallest ships with powerful, stealthy, and long-range missiles that can sink enemy ships or signal emitters from a safe distance. So far, the strategy has mainly relied on retrofitting the ships to carry "over-the-horizon (long range)" missiles.

The next step appears to be the formation of a "tactical cloud," or a network of targeting information from satellites, aircraft, ships, submarines, and even weapons themselves to form a lethal "kill web."

This will afford the Navy "the ability for us to utilize air-launched capabilities, surface launched capabilities and subsurface launched capabilities that are tied together with an all domain" information network, said Navy Rear Adm. Mark Darrah at the Naval Air Systems Command, as the US Naval Institute notes.

"We call it the tactical cloud.

Hit the enemy before they can get you.