The aircraft carriers Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt and Nimitz and their strike groups underway in the western Pacific in 2017. Defense Secretary James Mattis wants to see this kind of thing more often, but to do it could fundamentally change the Navy. (James Griffin/Navy
PJ Media: It's Easier to Track One Man Through His Cellphone Than a 110,000-Ton Aircraft Carrier
The USS Abraham Lincoln, now deployed to the Middle East, is meant to be symbolically visible to the press but not to the Iranians. The Lincoln, like the rest of the surface fleet operating under the doctrine of "Distributed Lethality" has a fair chance of remaining unseen by enforcing very strict emission controls and relying on passive detectors and networked remote sensors to provide situational awareness.
Every warship is a potential sensor or shooter in the shared effort, but the ability of enemies to detect, track and target U.S. naval forces is greatly complicated.
In fact, the new strategy puts considerable emphasis on concealment and deception as a way of both deterring and defeating aggressors. When naval campaigns are organized around a handful of aircraft carriers, it doesn't take a lot of thought for enemies to figure out what their top-priority target should be. But when a campaign is waged by diverse vessels scattered over many hundreds of miles of water, the enemy is challenged in determining where to focus its response.
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WNU Editor: This is definitely one of the 21st century's paradoxes. That it is easier to track one man through his cellphone than locate a 110,000-ton aircraft carrier that is electronically silent.
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There are sites where for a small fee like $8 a month you can track a given cell phone. All you need is for some anonymous floozie to bed a sailor or three when they are in port and you can have three to track and know the ship they are on. Then a GPS directed missile, like the ones the Russians launched from 3,000 miles away can kill those guys, and rather quickly. Of course it works the same against a vessel from any power, maybe even a war plane if the pilot were foolish enough to take his phone along for the ride.
No call phone reception around 20km off most shores (if major islands in between that's differend but even 20km off England you're lost if you try to track with cell phone unless it's a satellite phone and that would be major major no no inventory / clear signal of espionage)
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