Compass Points - NMESIS or NEMESIS?
More drones on the way.
Compass Points - NMESIS or NEMESIS?
More drones on the way.
June 14, 2025
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Happy 250th Birthday to the United States Army!
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Nemesis? NMESIS? NEMESIS?
When discussing new technologies, like drones, missiles, and unmanned weapons of all kinds, it can be hard to keep the terms and acronyms straight.
The word 'nemesis' means an opponent or source of harm.
The acronym 'NMESIS' is a system that combines the unmanned ROGUE Fires vehicle and the Navy Strike Missile to provide a capability to attack naval targets from land.
The acronym 'NEMESIS' stands for Netted Emulation of Multi-Element Signature against Integrated Sensors. The Navy has been developing the NEMESIS system and related follow-on systems for years, all in an ongoing effort to change the way wars are fought.
NEMMESIS is an overarching Navy electronic warfare system that uses air and water drones of all types and electronic signals to cause phantom fleets of aircraft, ships and submarines through false signatures and decoys to appear on enemy sensors.
There are a multitude of ongoing Navy programs involving drones and unmanned vehicles, all part of what the Navy is calling their ‘silent swarm."
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While specific details on the offerings experimented with during the two weeks remain limited, we know that over 57 technologies were demonstrated. “You have technologies out there, you have those unmanned surface vessels, the boats, out there, that one company [Seasats] has brought, and that’s cool… but it’s even more interesting when you can put a sensor on it… and then they deploy 10 of them, with sensors, and then they can really surround an area, and just the impact that can have, and the ability to feed that information back to other sources,” Sondra Laughlin, deputy lead for Silent Swarm, noted. “We do a lot of networking, as much as we can, throughout the entire process.”
-- TWZ
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While drones are taking on a new importance, they are not new. The use of military drones and unmanned vehicles go back at least to the Cold War Era. Nearly 10 years ago the DOD conducted an experiment with drone swarms released from three Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets.
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The US Department of Defense has created a swarm of 3D printed autonomous micro drones that can fly together in formation. Known as Perdix, the drones were developed by the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) with a reported budget of $20 million.
Perdix drones were originally designed by researchers at MIT and 3D printing was utilized to provide fast iteration of design and also lower production costs. With Project Perdix the main aim is to create a swarm that can be released from a fighter jet traveling at high speed.
. . . In the video released by the US Navy, the drones can be seen navigating to a selected waypoint as a swarm. As Roper explains, this is not a pre-planned mission and the drones have special sensors to mitigate colliding into one another. Perdix will be given a mission and collectively decide the best way of executing it before attempting a soft landing. The Department of Defense has not disclosed the planned use of the drones, but the potential for the aircraft is clear. The drones could be used to jam enemy radar and for surveillance.
-- 3D Printing Industry
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Today, the US Commander of INDOPACOM has promised to turn the Taiwan Strait into a "hellscape."
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At the broader level, INDOPACOM already has plans to turn the airspace and waters around Taiwan into a “hellscape” should China invade it. This would involve using masses of uncrewed platforms to “turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities,” Navy Adm. Samuel Paparo, INDOPACOM’s top officer, revealed on the sidelines of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore earlier this year, “so that I can make their lives utterly miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything.”
-- TMZ
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The programs are not only about future capabilities, the Navy is about to take ownership of the USX Defiant, a fully autonomous ship.
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Separate from GAO’s report, congressional testimony from acting Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby this week revealed the Navy will take ownership of Defiant (USX-1) following ongoing trials and at-sea demonstration.
Defiant is an MUSV produced by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the tech and engineering firm SERCO through the No Manning Required Ship program. It was built from the ground up to not have any souls aboard, making it different from other MUSVs with which the Navy has experimented. Those vessels can operate autonomously but still possess all the amenities necessary to safely sustain human life while at sea.
-- Breaking Defense
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Nemesis? NMESIS? NEMESIS?
No matter what terms are used, the US will need drones and unmanned vehicles of all sorts to help win the next battle. Still, ships without sailors and planes without pilots, by themselves, can never defend a nation or win a battle. It takes warriors to win. In the battles on the way, in the crises to come, one important tool the US will need tomorrow just as it needs today is a global, combined arms force of thinking, evaluating, and deciding Marine warriors, on amphibious ships, ready to arrive at the scene of any crisis to deter, assist, or fight.
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TWZ - 07/31/2024
Silent Swarm Exercise Accelerates Navy’s Path To Distributed Electronic Warfare Future
The Navy recently experimented with hundreds of electronic warfare technologies mounted on aerial drones and swarms of uncrewed boats.
By Oliver Parken
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3D Printing Industry - 04/03/2017
US Military deploys swarm of 3D printed “Perdix” drones from fighter jets
By Corey Clarke
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Breaking Defense - 06/12/2025
Navy will consolidate Medium, Large USV programs: GAO
The GAO's report comes just days before the Navy is scheduled to host industry to discuss the new consolidated program.
By Justin Katz
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/06/navy-will-consolidate-medium-large-usv-programs-gao/
Was wondering if I spelled NMESIS correctly in my prior post, lucked out and got it right. I am a believer in keeping our tech up to date and if possible ahead of date. I do think that the tactics and logistics of using it is also vital. None of this equipment is any good if it sits on the shelf or due to poor thinking or poor tactics.
Appears to be a complimentary piece of kit. A piece of gear used to support a MEF Centric MAGTF. Grok:**NEMESIS SIGINT/EW System Summary**
- **Purpose**: A U.S. Navy electronic warfare (EW) and signals intelligence (SIGINT) system designed to deceive enemy sensors by creating false signatures of aircraft, ships, and submarines, disrupting their command and control.
- **Capabilities**:
- Generates realistic radar, infrared, and electromagnetic signatures to mimic non-existent forces.
- Integrates unmanned vehicles, ship/submarine systems, EW payloads, and advanced communications for multi-domain deception.
- Uses networked, adaptive technology to target enemy sensor networks across air, sea, and subsurface domains.
- **Strategic Role**: Enhances electromagnetic spectrum dominance, counters advanced adversaries (e.g., China, Russia), and supports multi-domain operations by confusing enemy situational awareness.
- **Development**: In progress since at least 2013, nearing operational status by 2019, per Navy budget documents.
- **Key Features**:
- Coordinates multiple platforms for unified, large-scale deception.
- Likely uses open architecture for rapid tech upgrades.
- Focuses on strategic, cross-domain EW unlike localized jamming systems (e.g., EA-18G Growler).
- **Challenges**: Complex coordination, potential vulnerability to counter-EW, and need for allied interoperability.”