AI and the future of warfare in the context of South Asia

[Falcon26]

In recent months, PAF has accelerated its efforts of adopting and institutionalizing the use of AI & machine-learning as an instrument of air power. For example, in August, PAF opened the Centre of Artificial Intelligence and Computing.

At the heart of this Centre of Artificial Intelligence and Computing is a program called Cognitive Electronic Warfare (CEW). "Cognitive Electronic Warfare (CEW) is the use of cognitive systems – commonly known as Artificial Intelligence (AI) or machine learning – to enhance development and operation of Electronic Warfare (EW) technologies for the defense community. Cognitive systems can sense, learn, reason, and interact naturally with people and environments, accelerating development and implementation of next generation EW threat detection, suppression, and neutralization technologies”

Earlier this year, the revelation of the Chinese Jilin-1 military satellite and its ability to track and monitor airplanes in real time generated a lot of buzz. Such systems put tremendous strain on the enemy and impact greatly its ability to deploy assets. There will simply be nowhere to hide.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1329873861681221633

According to Indian media, Pakistan already has access to the Jilin-1 military satellites. If true, this will fundamentally alter the battlespace and give PAF unparalleled information Managment dominance and essentially dwarf PAF’s use of information superiority to trash the IAF during the February 26/27 skirmishes with India.
Eye on J&K’: Pakistan buys China’s Jilin-1 satellite data

New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS)

Pakistan has purchased from China real time satellite data, comprising high definition video, optical and hyper spectral imagery, that also can provide it the precise position of Indian Army camps across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
Intelligence sources said that Pakistan has entered into a contract with China to procure Jilin-1 satellite data for 2020.
The Jilin constellation comprises a network of ten satellites in orbit with capability of global coverage and it can revisit any location twice a day. “Resolution of panchromatic image provisioned by Jilin-1 is 0.72 m and multi-spectral image is 2.88 m,” a source said.
Jilin is China’s commercial remote sensing satellite run by the Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd.
In 2019, Pakistan had purchased data of the advanced land observation satellite phased array type L Band synthetic aperture radar and Jilin-1, sources said.

So, while India continues to induct new fighter jets and other military platforms in haphazard manner, it seems PAF is making very calculated and strategic decisions in order to offset these acquisitions by India. The February 26/27 skirmishes last year proved that subsystems and integrations trump platforms. In the next few years, how institutions such as the center for artificial intelligence and cognitive electronic warfare fare will in many ways decide the outcome of the war.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Some immediate applications can be in the field of drones of all sorts!! From MALE to loitering munitions....

 

[Falcon26]

Some immediate applications can be in the field of drones of all sorts!! From MALE to loitering munitions....

Cruise missiles too. It’s a game changer.

 

[Sinnerman108]

AI is the new BUZZ,
and it's been misused more than anything else these days.

See the below statement is technically not correct
This is a crazy! Chinese Jilin-1 military satellite marks all objects and tracks them automatically with their trajectory, even their speed and Artificial intelligence decides strange movements if some, and reports, all in real-time. As example, Atlanta AP

AI requires a disciplined culture of data, clean, trust worthy data.
PAF and for that matter even larger airforces of the world have some way to reach that target.

At the heart of this Centre of Artificial Intelligence and Computing is a program called Cognitive Electronic Warfare (CEW). "Cognitive Electronic Warfare (CEW) is the use of cognitive systems – commonly known as Artificial Intelligence (AI) or machine learning – to enhance development and operation of Electronic Warfare (EW) technologies for the defense community. Cognitive systems can sense, learn, reason, and interact naturally with people and environments, accelerating development and implementation of next generation EW threat detection, suppression, and neutralization technologies”

Earlier this year, the revelation of the Chinese Jilin-1 military satellite and its ability to track and monitor airplanes in real time generated a lot of buzz. Such systems put tremendous strain on the enemy and impact greatly its ability to deploy assets. There will simply be nowhere to hide.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1329873861681221633

According to Indian media, Pakistan already has access to the Jilin-1 military satellites. If true, this will fundamentally alter the battlespace and give PAF unparalleled information Managment dominance and essentially dwarf PAF’s use of information superiority to trash the IAF during the February 26/27 skirmishes with India.
Eye on J&K’: Pakistan buys China’s Jilin-1 satellite data



So, while India continues to induct new fighter jets and other military platforms in haphazard manner, it seems PAF is making very calculated and strategic decisions in order to offset these acquisitions by India. The February 26/27 skirmishes last year proved that subsystems and integrations trump platforms. In the next few years, how institutions such as the center for artificial intelligence and cognitive electronic warfare fare will in many ways decide the outcome of the war.
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[Ahmet Pasha]

Literally made a thread about it.

 

[Falcon26]

Literally made a thread about it.

link?

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

link?

Future of Air Defence

This uncle is probably the only sane Indian left on planet. I believe EW and Cyber warfare will form back bone of air defence against missiles, fast movers, and drones. Also could EMP be the uncharted territory for AD? As witnessed from 27 Feb and Karabakh campaigns.

defence.pk

 

[Falcon26]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1337871214933643265

 

[RiazHaq]

MOSAIC WARFARE: SMALL AND SCALABLE ARE BEAUTIFUL
BENJAMIN JENSEN AND JOHN PASCHKEWITZ

Mosaic Warfare: Small and Scalable are Beautiful - War on the Rocks

It is 20XX. A limited war breaks out involving a territorial dispute in the South China Sea. A U.S. Marine Corps assault team moves out of the back of an

warontherocks.com

It is 20XX. A limited war breaks out involving a territorial dispute in the South China Sea. A U.S. Marine Corps assault team moves out of the back of an MV-22 pulling boxes containing a mix of computer chips, printable explosives, and communications gear, and prepares to strike a high-value target. They look more like the cast of MythBusters than Marines. They link up with prepositioned quadcon containers delivered by an unmanned logistics system. The team opens the container and starts assembling a mission payload. After analyzing the different options generated by the Athena computer-assistant, the team leader opts for a mix of hunters and killers: three surveillance drones to find and fix the target, two electronic attack systems to isolate the objective, and three explosive drones trained to target the critical vulnerabilities. One grunt 3D prints explosive charges while another loads new attack profiles for the mission in a tablet using blockly code. They cross check the cloud-based intelligence database and download updates to help the machine-learning algorithm recognize the target and ignore new enemy decoys and civilians. After launching the mission package, the team boards the MV-22 and plans its next attack as it proceeds to a new firing site.


The rapid and creative combination of small, cheap, flexible systems described above represents a new theory of victory: mosaic warfare. The idea emerged in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), parallel to service concepts like Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment, Multi-Domain Operations, and Multi-Domain Battle. Like these concepts, mosaic warfare describes how to conduct multi-domain maneuver against adversaries possessing precision strike capabilities. Unlike these concepts, mosaic warfare places a premium on seeing battle as an emergent, complex system, and using low-cost unmanned swarming formations alongside other electronic and cyber effects to overwhelm adversaries. The central idea is to be cheap, fast, lethal, flexible, and scalable. Rather than building one expensive, exquisite munition optimized for a particular target, connect small unmanned systems with existing capabilities in creative and continually evolving combinations that take advantage of changing battlefield conditions and emergent vulnerabilities. Put simply, it’s Voltron on the cheap: a human-machine team combining flexible unmanned systems with coup d’oeil (strategic intuition) at a tempo that an adversary cannot match. As forces attack simultaneously from multiple directions they produce a series of dilemmas that cause the enemy system to collapse.

Over the past two years, a unique collaboration between DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office, Marine Corps University, and the U.S. Army Reserve 75th Innovation Command resulted in a series of war games to test this concept. This article explores the results. Based on the initial findings, the mosaic concept is a viable way ahead for developing 21st century multi-domain formations and capabilities. The U.S. military should accelerate and support the development of the concept through unified experimentation encompassing people, process, and technology. We need more marines and soldiers, along with coalition partners and scientists, fighting war games and conducting field experiments to transition the mosaic concept into new equipment and tactics that define how America fights.