My Thoughts For A Military Strategy

The wars are so complex systems that there is no magical winning strategy. When I propose a strategy, I address the root first and come up with ideas to strengthen it. It can be seen on my latest fighter jet idea.

I personally thought of some performance criteria to measure the effectiveness of a military strategy. It is the effective presence on the battlefield. Let me explain it on an example:

There is a fighter plane on the battlefield that carries 10 missiles. The plane has a combat radius of 1000 km and is a conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) plane. The military airport is 200 km from the battlefield. This plane has to travel at least 400km for every sortie.

On the other hand, there is another plane that carries 12 missiles with a combat radius of 1200 km and is a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) type. Because of plane’s VTOL capability the plane has to travel at least 50km for every sortie.

The later plane can stay longer at the battlefield than the first one for every sortie. Therefore, would be more effective.

For example, if you want to achieve a military goal, you may calculate the minimum presence requirement at a certain location.

With these measures, more mobile units are more advantageous while they can be relocated fast. In that sense, aerial units are superior to the land units. The biggest weakness of most aerial units is their requirement of a large airport. Stationary locations are the weakest points of an army. The more flexible the army is the more difficult to offend against it.

By looking at these criteria, I concluded that fuel-efficient low-cost VTOL bombers would play a key role on a modern army. VTOL’s would carry short range missiles to the close proximity of the target, negating the need for more expensive long-range missiles. In order to increase the VTOL count, it is best to use consumer products which are relatively cheaper and have lower operational cost.

Fighter Jet Concept Explained Further

My article on a new fighter jet concept received the highest impression among all my articles. Unfortunately, it is not well understood. I just proposed a dual-purpose fighter jet to be among the arsenal of an army. It is not a replacement of an F35. Don't forget that chess boards are composed of different type of pieces. All my military propositions are based on cost effective solutions to keep the economy stronger. Military gadgets and arsenal have no meaning without a strong economy.

The decisive military actions are achieved by missiles. The jets or drones are just the carriers of these missiles. In the age of supersonic intelligent missiles, there is less need for dog fighting jet planes. The strategy I propose is to deploy as much defensive and offensive missile as possible to the battlefield. Increasing the point of attack or defend would increase the success rate. When you outnumber an advanced fighter jet with more missile carrying planes, the advanced plane has almost no chance. During World War 2, German battleship Bismarck lost the battle against the outnumbering less capable battleships. Given all planes carry the same type of missile, more planes with more line of fire and more missile would eventually win the war.

Stealth planes are only invisible to radar waves, but they are visible to sound detectors, light sensors, thermal sensors and the satellites. When you form a virtual wall made of fuel-efficient patrolling planes that carry considerable amount of missile, the very expensive stealth planes have limited effect. Additionally, the planes are propose are more capable than all the military drones available at the moment. Their dual purpose capability is a big bonus as well.

Importantly, commercial engine-based fighter jet would have less burden on military R&D which strengthens the economy.

As a conclusion, the dual-purpose fighter jet I propose has considerable advantages over many fighter jets and drones.

New Intensive Care Proposal

My recent experience with intensive care room of a hospital was very disappointing. I can understand the priorities in an intensive care room. However, not all patients are in deep coma while staying in those rooms. In my case, my father could open his eyes and react to what he hears by his eyes and tears.

The intensive care room contains monitoring systems that frequently beeps. Think you are a patient and you have consciousness to a degree which includes hearing. A cold room with a continues beep tone do not increase one's desire to live. I have some propositions for the intensive care room.

First, the beeping system should be removed to an external monitor outside the room. There should be no periodic noise in the room. There should be small speakers on the head section of the bed. From these speakers depending on the time of the day, special sounds will be played. Humans have biological clock which cannot work properly inside these rooms. Keeping this clock tick properly, I believe is important for the healing of the patient. For example, in the morning just before the patient receives his/her first medication of the day. A soft morning sound can be played. For example, another type of sound in the middle of the day and at night. The doctors ask patients previous health record. This questionnaire can also include the patient’s favorite music and songs. An AI system would choose an appropriate music based on the information. The patient’s reactions would be monitored by the AI computer which effects the music play. Depending on the reactions, the music can be stopped or another type of music would be played. These sound and music playbacks would be conducted briefly but frequently depending on the patience' medication. When I used to travel with bus, the internal audio system would start playing a soft tune a couple of minutes before a stop. I got my inspiration from this past experience. As a result, the patient would understand that it is morning, night or time for medication. AI system should also speak with the patient like SIRI. It shouldn't be for a long time as well. All these sound interrupts would be patient specific and patient's current health.

Finally, there should be a wired video conference system attached to the side of the bed. This is to allow patient's close relatives which cannot make it to the limited meeting time or live far away. Speaking and saying nice motivating words have considerable impact on the human metabolism to overcome the illness. A patient feeling alone in a cold beeping room can hardly hold on the life. Medications should be supported with proper moral. Solely medication-based cure would have high fatality rate.

12.12.1941

Babam

Five Thumbs Don’t Make a Hand

Modern digital backed audio systems are composed of several key parts. The speakers and their acoustics, digital amplifier with DSP equalizer, electronics to select the audio source which includes the wireless connectivity like Bluetooth, computer to playback the digital content either streaming or stored audio, embedded software, internet software and mobile app. And of course, there is the business and marketing side of it (modern - selling directly online or the old way - through resellers).

With the accelerated trend of mergers and acquisitions of consumer brands, high end audio companies are now part of giant holdings. Buying companies and collecting them inside a shopping cart like in a supermarket is not that profitable. Unless, you buy brands so that they create synergy among them. Five thumbs don’t make a hand. A hand needs index finger, middle finger, ring finger and pinky finger besides the thumb.

I am a Klipsch fan. Reading bad reviews of their failed high end active speakers, made me write this article. Speakers are not perfect due to laws of physics. Therefore, combining them with any external amplifier would not yield perfect flat sound reproduction. On the other hand, coupling the speakers with onboard digital amplifiers that perfect the sound output using specially programmed DSP equalizers would give perfect flat response. This also reduces the overall cost of the hi-fi system and increases the convenience of the product which is important for many non-audiophile listeners like me.

Klipsch’s high-end Heritage active speakers are designed for this purpose. However, their electronics fail after a year or two which is unacceptable for a high-end product. Klipsch has know-how on speakers and acoustics, and not so much on the other things I stated at the beginning of my article. Ideally, the holding which bought Klipsch should have bought other companies to fill this gap to create perfect products. That is one of the reasons I keep emphasizing the importance of vertical and horizontal integration on product design. Modern technology requires more know-how for a perfect product. Unfortunately, the current trend is just the make sales without designing anything. Companies just place a badge of a brand from their portfolio on a Chinese product and sell the product as if it was designed by that brand.

With so much junk on the market, there are opportunities for the companies which develop their products properly; market and service them accordingly.

Lunar Exploration

I recently read that the latest lunar space suits would be designed to allow days of sustained exploration. I thought of another alternative to achieve the same goal. The explorers on earth utilize mules on their expeditions. The extraterrestrial explorers can utilize rovers and handcarts.

Extraterrestrial rover would have a pressurized cabin for the astronauts to rest and fulfill their humanitarian needs. It would have large extended solar panels to charge itself and provide power to the astronauts. It would carry the food, water and additional oxygen supply. Additionally, it would have a section for quick emergency first aid.

In addition to the rover, the astronauts would drag a handcart which would carry spare batteries and life support systems. The handcart would also house some test equipment as well as power tools to extract samples. Additionally, it would have quick repair kits for the damaged space suits.

From the specifications I defined, it is better to have a lunar lander that can move instead of a need to carry an additional rover. Lunar lander rover does not need to move fast, but should be able to give life support to the astronauts in close proximity.

The Wall Grill

In the morning in my dream, I saw my mother cooking small fish fillet on an iron. She was holding the fillet from the extending skin of the fish and pushing the fillet on the iron with her thumb.  With this method she lightly cooked both sides of the small fillet that could be placed on a sushi. Then I woke up and thought about my dream and turned it into a product, The Wall Grill.

Lately, houses are becoming smaller in big cities. As a result, the kitchens are diminishing. How about using the wall of the kitchen as a cooking surface. A slightly angled stainless steel grill surface attached to the wall. The food to be cooked would be attached to the pegs on top of the grill. It would have separate heater sections controlled by thermostatic knobs. At the bottom of the grill there would be fat collection tray that can be removed and cleaned in a dish washer. A section of the grill would house holes for steam release like in a classic iron. This would allow steam, grilled cooking.

There would also be an external grilling iron. It would be a modified iron optimized for cooking food. You would press it on the food to cook it and steam it on demand.