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if this story is
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true it is the stuff of
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Legends if the story is true the Chinese
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just did something that was believed to
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be
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impossible I have been long in doubt
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about whether discussing this in but I
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think that in the end there is enough
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evidence to make it at least plausible
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and this is a story that involves an
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aircraft a ship and a
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well in August 2022 the speaker of the
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US House of Representative Nancy Pelosi
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flew to Taiwan for her historic visit
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this parked a period of heightened
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tensions between the United States and
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China the Chinese actually started a
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series of military exercises in the area
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in reply to such an unprecedented
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high-profile visit the US Arm Forces
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deployed a Joint Force to protect Pelosi
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aircraft Journey eight f-15s were
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deployed on patrol 50 tical miles of
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Taiwan assisted by four tankers the USS
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Tria the second of the americ class
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amphibious assault ships was patrolling
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the waters between Taiwan and the
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Philippines with its F35 BS the Ronald
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Reagan carrier strike group a few days
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before cancelled a visit to Vietnam to
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steam at flank speed to the Philippine
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Sea and be ready the boing 737
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transporting Pelosi did not fly a direct
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truth because coming from the West it
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would have meant crossing the contested
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Sou China Sea it took a long the tour in
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Indonesian airspace flying over Borneo
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and cbus and then turning north of the
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eastern coast of the Philippines and
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finally when the aircraft approached
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Taiwan at nighttime from the East well
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it just landed and nothing happened in a
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rather anti-climatic situation as I said
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the visit was very important and at the
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you'll check them out while pel's flight
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was uneventfully reaching Tai one the
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Chinese were not sitting still they
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obviously took the opportunity to gather
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intelligence about such a large
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deployment in fact they had airborne and
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Naval intelligence Assets in the area
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and these assets for the first time
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noticed something unusual in fact the
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Americans and this occurrence abandoned
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pretense of stealth they saturated the
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flight area with electromagnetic
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radiation in particular the US Navy
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extensively used its Jammers it is is
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reported that a Chinese awx in the area
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failed to pick up pis plane which being
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a 737 airliner well it wasn't exactly
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stal we are told by Chinese sources that
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this was considered a valuable lesson by
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the Chinese and today we know it wasn't
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forgotten at all
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in December
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2023 something unprecedented happened in
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the South China Sea the Carl Vinson's
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carrier group was operating in the South
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China Sea like often us carrier groups
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do we don't know the exact area of the
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operation but it was well inside these
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highly contested areas sensors were
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tracking a Chinese Naval group in the
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same area we don't know whether it was a
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carrier group but it is more likely that
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it wasn't the US pick up one of the
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ships detaching from the formation and
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moving south in the direction of the
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American Carrier Group their apply was
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to launch a small formation of F18 super
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Hornets this is common practice in these
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Maritime encounters where the sides
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involves observe each other this time
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though an ea1 18 Growler was
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accompanying the fighters we have
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recently discussed The Growler on this
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channel it is a variant of the f-18f
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Super Hornet dedicated to electronic
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attack as the f-18s got got closer to
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the Chinese ship the Raiders started
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tracking them in a shooting War it is
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the stage before locking which is the
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stage before missile launch some
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missiles can be launched without locking
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but you get the point these kind of
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games with the electromagnetic spectrum
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again are not unprecedented when two
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forces meet at Sea so the Americans did
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their part and they replied blasting the
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Chinese ship with the ea8
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Jammers and
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nothing that is nothing happened the
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Chinese ship kept tracking and since US
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aircraft were getting closer the ship
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started locking them actually we don't
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know the exact sequence of events later
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the Chinese media will show footage of
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a18s buzzing close to the Chinese ship
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and one of them was actually a growler
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some other Reports say that the
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Americans turned away when the Chinese
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opened the misses launch hatches which
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means that they were using some sort of
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teapod to see it from afar otherwise I
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don't understand how they would know in
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any case what you usually want to do is
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get into the point of reading the Ship
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Hall number to fully identify the target
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the type can generally be identified by
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the electronic emissions but you want to
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know exactly which ship is involved
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unfortunately I wasn't able to recover
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the original ch Chinese footage so well
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it's not entirely clear what exactly
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happened that day however something
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quite clear happened later in January
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2024 the Chinese ship involved in the
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incident turned out to be the nchang pen
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number 101 a type 055 Destroyer the this
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is the most modern warship in the
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Chinese Fleet and Nanchang has been
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commissioned in 2020 so it is basically
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a new ship in January 2024 the ship got
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an award as a role model for the times
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for actions the ship commander in an
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interview recounted a story which is
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exactly the one that we have just told
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in mind this would be nothing terrible
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strange if it wasn't combined with other
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news in late December 2023 the commander
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of the vaq 136 got the AE due to the
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loss of confidence in the command
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ability this would not be particularly
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strange about 10 US Naval commanders are
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removed on average every year point is
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the
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vaq-136 in December 2023 was the
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electronic attack Squadron assigned to
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the car Vinson it is a strike in Co
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coincidence that its Commander is
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removed after a growler of the same
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Squadron executed an electronic attack
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against a Chinese ship that was deemed
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ineffective so we have the Chinese ship
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and the US commander and they say that
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you need three coincidences to make a
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proof well apparently we have the third
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coincidence
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in July 2024 professors leang Fu and Li
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xier I hope two academics working in one
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of the several plan schools published a
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paper that shed some light on what
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happened in December 2023 in the South
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China Sea the paper was titled analysis
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of the ea1 18 G combat capability and
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rather countermeasure strategy it was
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published in a Chinese a scientific
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magazine named the radar and ECM this is
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not unprecedented at all most of what we
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know about the Chinese military
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technological progress we know because
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academic papers releas the
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non-classified elements in the paper the
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Chinese scientists describe what they
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call intelligent raadar what they're
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describing sounds like Sensor Fusion on
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steroids where different Raiders with
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different features work together to
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create a battles space picture the
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steroid part is referred to a
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breakthrough in terms of brute computing
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power that can be embarked on a ship
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compounded with the use of AI trained
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models to discriminate targets and
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patterns okay this doesn't sound
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exceedingly revolutionary bet that today
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everyone is working on it however it
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seems reasonable that to base your
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signal processing on AI you need much
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more row processing power than you would
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for traditional signal processing but
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there is another breakthrough that is
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mentioned in the paper it refers to the
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possibility to maintain gam
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resistant very robust and very
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high-speed data Communications between
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ships forming a kill web this seems to
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be nothing different from the network
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concept developed by the US where every
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sensor every weapon platform every
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intelligent weapon and every command are
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all nodes in different network layers
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the purpose is to move on from linear
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kill chains to networked kill chains
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much more difficult to disrupt in the
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world of linear kill chains one
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Commander authorizes the launch of one
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missile that can be guided by only one
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ship against one Target in the world of
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the kill web the sensing the decision
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making the weapon and the guidance can
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all be provided by different nodes on
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the network at different time times and
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even change on the Fly this is something
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that we have discussed on the channel I
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invite you to have a look because it's a
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very interesting subject anyway for once
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you may say that the Chinese are copying
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but I would rather focus on the fact
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that the Chinese Now can do this too we
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already knew that this Cooperative
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engagement capability existed in the air
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domain for example between the j20 and
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the awox and the M j2s but now the
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Chinese Navy seems to have joined the
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party and it seems that the ea1 18 was a
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victim of this kill web the commander of
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the nchang interviewed in the occasion
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of the award briefly told his version of
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the story the ship left the formation
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and Advance ahead of the other ships
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when the ea8 started to jam the ship
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systems or some of the ship systems
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other ships could keep targeting the
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aircraft moreover the nchang Raiders
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would soon see The Growler through the
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jamming and went back targeting
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it okay what could we do with this story
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first I would say that the details seem
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quite credible many elements match we do
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not have the American admitting the
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incident as far as I know but yeah
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that's normal I suppose the dismissal of
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the commander of the
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vaq-136 could be connected with the
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incident let's not for forget that if
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all of this is true the EA with this
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aggressive behavior might have given
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away some useful intelligence that it
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was not supposed to probably justifying
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the disciplinary measure I wonder what
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happened to The Growler crew more in
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general it is abundantly clear if it was
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needed how the Chinese are very quick in
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implementing changes and improvements
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and they're rapidly eroding the American
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Technology Edge frankly if I was a US
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Commander I would really be
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concerned so thank you very much for
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watching this short video thank you very
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much for giving me your attention and
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