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Post by End Zone on Oct 23, 2023 4:55:24 GMT -7
231019-N-GF955-1030 RED SEA, October 19, 2023, U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron LauSailors assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) stand watch in the ship’s Combat Information Center (CIC) during an operation to defeat a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles on October 19, 2023. The elder officer standing in the middle of the team is the commanding officer. To his left is possibly the watch officer or chief of the watch. Ranks, names and screen images were erased by the Navy for obvious security reasons. USS Carney is deployed to the norther Red Sea, a part of the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, to help ensure maritime security and stability in the Middle East region. USS Carney fired 19 missiles at multiple missiles and drones, using SM-2 missiles. There were no misses. I stood many watches on aircraft carriers during my 30-year Navy career. The CIC is one of several information centers aboard navy warships. The CIC is networked with all other ship nerve centers and pulls in information from all tactical and strategic navy and joint systems. If an allied naval unit joins the flotilla, sensitive information can be instantly shared with the ally. It was a thrilling job.
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Post by thomas cat on Oct 24, 2023 19:36:11 GMT -7
Thats an interesting picture even if it doesn't look like much. You just have to understand what is actually going on there. I have watched many shows about how modern Navy ships operate. Obviously, I don't know near as much as you, but I do know enough to get it.
If you want to know what's going on, that's where you want to be. In a real time conflict situation, I bet it's both exciting and freighting.
It's also maybe the safest place to be. They may not reveal just where the CIC is on given ship, but I would have to think there are many bulkheads between them and the outside hull. If you were to lose the CIC. The ship becomes blind and dumb.
I don't want to compare what the CIC does to a video game....obviously, it's much more serious. Still, they are similar. You take in information, analyze it, and react. Anyone that plays certain types of video games knows this well. The quicker you can do these three things, the better chance at survival.
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Post by End Zone on Oct 25, 2023 2:15:30 GMT -7
TC, your comment about bulkheads providing sailors with a safe workspace is valid, to an extent. Mostly, bulkheads keep seawater, fires, and gases away from sailors who need clean air to live and fight. Ship bulkheads aren't worth a dam at preventing most bomb damage. Modern missile warheads are designed to penetrate thick steel layers and then detonate, causing a 10-meter hole in the hull under the waterline, or breaking a smaller ship in half and sinking it in 30 seconds. Millisecond delay fuses on fragmentary warheads are messy, like Chinese Throwing Stars, flying in a thousand directions and ripping everything to shreds. The CIC's and supporting networks are spread around a ship's interior, usually above the waterline, to ensure redundant command and control (C2) capability when the ship's crew is fighting an enemy. A well-designed modern U.S Navy ship can keep fighting the enemy even if the ship is shot full of holes.
Comparing a CIC to a video game is reasonably accurate. Personal training is intense. Team training is really intense. Not everyone makes the grades to work in CIC. The actions outside the skin of the ship are happening faster and faster. Machines are fighting machines at Mach+ speeds. And I didn't yet mention all-domain warfare. Subsurface, surface, air, and space war are all happening at the same time is how the U.S. likely will have to fight WW III (Chinese PLA is the next enemy).
I am studying tunnel warfare in an urban setting now. Keep your eye on the Hamas and IDF tactics to understand how modern tunnel warfare is done. We are all going to learn a lot after that regional is over.
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Post by End Zone on Nov 4, 2023 8:06:53 GMT -7
Do not mess with these guys...
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