{"id":31043,"date":"2015-04-21T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31043"},"modified":"2015-04-17T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:59:37","slug":"us-navy-and-marine-corps-to-go-all-drone-after-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/04\/21\/us-navy-and-marine-corps-to-go-all-drone-after-f-35\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy and Marine Corps to go all-drone after F-35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>USNI News<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.usni.org\/2015\/04\/15\/mabus-f-35c-will-be-last-manned-strike-fighter-the-navy-marines-will-ever-buy-or-fly\" target=\"_blank\">Sam LaGrone<\/a> says the F-35 is the last piloted strike fighter the US Navy and USMC will ever &#8220;buy or fly&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will be \u201calmost certainly will be, the last manned strike fighter aircraft the Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly,\u201d signaling key assumptions in the Navy\u2019s aviation future as the service prepares to develop follow-ons to the Boeing F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnmanned systems, particularly autonomous ones, have to be the new normal in ever-increasing areas,\u201d Mabus said. &#8220;For example, as good as it is, and as much as we need it and look forward to having it in the fleet for many years, the F-35 should be, and almost certainly will be, the last manned strike fighter aircraft the Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To address the emerging role unmanned weapon systems, Mabus announced a new deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems and a new Navy staff position \u2014 alongside warfare directorates like surface and air warfare \u2014 N-99.<\/p>\n<p>The positions were created \u201cso that all aspects of unmanned \u2013 in all domains \u2013 over, on and under the sea and coming from the sea to operate on land \u2013 will be coordinated and championed,\u201d Mabus said.<\/p>\n<p>Unmanned aerial vehicles are currently part of the Navy\u2019s N2\/N6 Information Dominance portfolio as primarily information, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platform while undersea and surface unmanned systems are owned by a myriad of agencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the USNI News, Sam LaGrone says the F-35 is the last piloted strike fighter the US Navy and USMC will ever &#8220;buy or fly&#8221;: Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will be \u201calmost certainly will be, the last manned strike fighter aircraft the Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,13],"tags":[559,30,149,514],"class_list":["post-31043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-technology","category-usa","tag-f-35","tag-navy","tag-uav","tag-usmc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-84H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31044,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31043\/revisions\/31044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}