Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "The Icarus Project"
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@icarusproject the bunkers, fixed artillery batteries and sea mine chains are decomissioned, yes, but the old costal forts are too massive to destroy on economic factors alone. Some have been sold to civilians and converted to buisnesses, museums or private homes.
Most have just been emptied of valuable or sensitive equipment and electronics, had their entrances filled with sand and sealed off with civilian grade rebar concrete slabs.
The networked defence doctrine is still alive and kicking.
A JAS39 can still recive target data and engage using the sensors of a Visby corvette, a CV9040AAV, an ARTUR counter battery radar, the tracking radar of a truck mounted Rbs15 anti-ship missile battery or a SAAB 2000 AWACS as if it was it's own onboard sensors, and in many cases, the other direction is also possible.
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Swedisk defense equipment isn't reliant on sattelites, sattelite navigation is a bonus if availiable, but as we were not members of NATO when our equipment was designed we couldn't expect them to allow full, or any, sattelite use in case of war.
Even today, conscripts training on Archer and Mjölner artillery systems, are first trained how to manually extrapolate firing data from compilations of map coordinates, compass values, meterological data collected by the army meterological corps, geomagnetic deviation tables and ammo ballistics tables modified by powder temperature and shell weight tolerances and inertial navigation positioning from millions of fixed physical calibration nodes.
GPS is a luxury only Americans can rely on.
And as for communications, the oldest backup system still in Swedish service is a 2×1.5v battery powered m/37 field telephone using a simple steel or copper single pair telephone wire that can be completely rebuilt in the field with nothing more than a few scavenged resistors, diodes, capacitors, a flat screwdriver and a heat source for soldering.
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