Secrecy Is The Enemy Of Readiness
Just as perfect is the enemy of good, sometimes secrecy is the enemy of readiness. Let's look at a few examples. F-22 The F-…
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ESSM Test Firing
The Navy is excited about the first live fire test of an Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) Block II which just recently occurred…
The Bare Minimum
In a recent post, we noted that the Army seems to be beginning to understand what a future war will entail (see, “Army Gets It” )…
New DOT&E Director
After many years of Dr. Michael Gilmore at the helm of the Pentagon’s testing and evaluation group, Director, Operational Testing…
Aegis Test Ship
This idea has come up repeatedly. The Navy’s main AAW weapon system, Aegis, is completely untested under any realistic condition…
Threat Surrogates
The Navy thinks nothing of spending billions for new ships, aircraft, and weapons – even ones with questionable performance – and…
When The Inmates Run The Prison
SeaRAM has been deployed in the fleet for some time now and I assumed it had gone through the standard array of testing. I was w…
Why DOT&E?
ComNavOps has long preached that weapon system performance in combat will never even remotely approach the manufacturer or Navy’s…
LCS Assessment Update
Dr. Michael Gilmore, Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E), revealed a great deal of previously unknown (at lea…
LCS Shock Test
The LCS USS Jackson just completed shock trials. Here’s the Navy’s statement about the results of the trial. “The ship performe…
LCS Harpoon Failure
We have a report that a Harpoon test fire from the LCS USS Coronado failed during a RIMPAC 2016 SINXEX (1). The missile apparen…
RQ-21 Blackjack
The Navy and Marines have a tendency to latch onto pieces of equipment with little or no data to base such enthusiasm on other th…
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