Calling for help from everything near the battlefield, whatever they are, and all at once if necessary.
In my ideal world, fire support is a black box where a call to destroy or suppress a target automatically calls in the appropriate weapon capable of taking out the target in a timely manner without the soldier making the support request even knowing what asset provided the support.
It could be a plane or space system out of sight, an attack helicopter, a ship or submarine offshore, a distant ground force missile or artillery asset, or even an 81mm mortar back at the company level. ...
“[The vision is] having connectivity between our formations, having every aircraft being able to talk to every aircraft, every ship able to talk to every aircraft, every unit of action on the ground talk to every other unit of action on the ground, and the shooters in the air and in maritime,” Grynkewich said. “So that’s work that’s ongoing.”
Unit of action? Whoa. That's an old term. I assume it still means brigade-sized Army formations.
As I've noted, options expand when you separate the sensors from the shooters (and link them).
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