The US Navy has a new trick up its sleeve, and it could be a game changer

Business Insider Wed, May 18 10:00 PM PDT 

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The US Navy is preparing to roll out an advanced network of targeting information that will revolutionize the fleet's capabilities in a time when they are increasingly being threatened by regional rivals. Russia and China are at or near parity with US Naval forces in key strategic areas and developing convincing anti-access/area denial defenses. The US Navy has lately been focused on a concept called "distributed lethality," or equipping even their smallest ships with powerful, stealthy, and long range missiles that can sink enemy ships or signal emitters from a safe distance. This will afford the Navy "the ability for us to utilize air-launched capabilities, surface launched capabilities and subsurface launched capabilities that are tied together with an all domain [information network],” said Navy Rear Adm. Mark Darrah at the Naval Air Systems Command, as the US Naval Institute notes. ...