... decision-making time to negligible values.
The key projects in this area are implemented under the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) programme, which is geared towards uniting all the detection and target acquisition systems employed across the U.S. Armed Forces into a single network. Cross-branch interoperation capabilities have been traditionally limited due to the differences in architecture of existing control systems. Establishing the chain of command, coordinating plans and assigning tasks ...
... a higher and more autonomous status.
Significantly, this is where Russia has been well ahead of the curve, as the country’s space forces have always enjoyed a relatively high degree of autonomy. It has reported directly to the General Staff of the Armed Forces since the 1980s, and in the 1990s and in the 2000s, it existed as a separate branch of the military. Currently, however, Russia is in the process of partly rolling back this process, with the space forces, the anti-aircraft defence force ...
... some promising pilot projects in this field. Vehicles of the Kurganets and Boomerang families raise a number of concerns, chiefly due to the obvious delay in putting them into production and the resulting lag behind the key adversaries in equipping the armed forces.
Alexander Yermakov:
From Tanks and Deserts to Missiles and Tropical Islands
However, there is one area where Russia definitely leads the pack, and that is in the development of the first real new-generation tank. Heavy APCs from the Armata ...
... becoming bankrupt. Behaviors of the military leaders and countries of the Second or Third Echelon will differ dramatically: the latter will practically stop the procurement of new equipment and in some cases be forced to make substantial reductions in the armed forces; the former will consider the military industry, first of all, in the context of saving their own economies, which implies significant changes in priorities, the preservation of serial productions of equipment, albeit in reduced production ...
