•Reaction time is the key driver to seizing the
initiative. |
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•The enemy submarine was most vulnerable entering and
exiting their home ports, due primarily to restricted waterways, where
position and movements were predictable.
Therefore, detecting and tracking these submarines as they were
leaving port became an important part of SEA-8’s research study. However, enemy force actions were uncertain
and (without any future intelligence gathering advantage) attempting to
determine when and from where they were to deploy their submarines was
difficult. Warning timelines were
often ambiguous and unpredictable.
During modeling and simulation, SEA-8 was unable to begin ASW
operations within 3 days or seize the initiative within 10 days without
leveraging the delivery flexibility and speed associated with strategic air
assets such as B-2 and B-52. In order
to hedge against uncertain enemy timelines, quick reaction and rapidly
deployable system architectures proved advantageous. To this end, airborne deployment methods
that used strategic air to insert non-traditional ASW assets appear to be
least sensitive to enemy initiative. |
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