Top Army general outlines plans for new brigades, new technologies

Great discussion and well intended. Will it become reality? That is another story. Increasing the Reserve component training requirement might become detrimental since, regardless of what the law says, it will hinder in many ways, shapes, and forms our reservist REAL JOBS!

The US military has developed or is developing Revolution In Military Affairs (RMA). RMAs can be a new weapon, vehicle, technology, or doctrine that will give us an advantage in the next wars. The American RMAs in WWII were amphibious landings, P-51s, atomic bombs, aircraft carriers, and Patton. lol

Here are current RMAs that have been developed and these are just my opinions:

- Smart Cluster Bombs: Right now we have the ability to drop large bombs that will spit out perhaps 40 cluster bombs that will actively seek armored vehicles to destroy them. This is a tremendous amount of accurate firepower.
- Phalanx System: This automated weapons system can be found on ships and around bases. It can shoot 4,500 20mm rounds at a muzzle velocity of 3600 feet/sec. It can shoot down missiles, drones, planes, mortars, and other projectiles.
- Israeli Trophy System: Our M1 tanks are becoming more vulnerable to anti tank weapons. The US Army will install the Trophy Systems on our tanks. When a missile or projectile is few meters from the tanks, the Trophy System will essentially shoot a shotgun blast to defeat the threat.
- Drones are used for surveillance and delivering munitions. I read Turkish drones destroyed 100 Russian made tanks in Syria. The US is fond of using drones to kill high value targets (people).

We are working on these possible RMAs:

- Laser Weapons: There are many technical challenges, but we are developing more powerful laser weapons. I think we have the ability to shoot down drones with laser weapons now.
- Rail Guns: Huge technical challenges but we are still trying to develop that technology.
- Artillery: Historically artillery has been an area weapon or an indirect weapons system. The goal for artillery is to land rounds in the proximity of the targets. Some of the current focus is turning artillery rounds into smart or guided rounds for precision. The US Army recently used a 155 Howitzer round to shoot down a missile. Perhaps we can shoot accurately at targets 50 miles away.
- Communications and Networking: I really don't know what this domain is called, but we are working on domain because it is crucial in future wars as there will be infinitely more inputs, outputs, and solutions.
- Hypersonic Missiles: China, Russia, and the US are racing to develop missiles that can fly at Mach 5.
- Robots and unmanned vehicles.
- IA
- Hypersonic missiles that are Mach 5+. At minimum that is one mile per second.

Where are we now and what new faraday cages do we have?? How many are prepared to use landlines? Where will we find them? Simple phones connecting to switch stations and cables? Will we have a back up in case of EMP