the.com/combat systems
the ship's brain, wired to see everything and kill it first.
means the integrated network of radar, sensors, computers, and weapons that lets a warship detect, track, and destroy threats as one coordinated unit.
from grew out of world war 2 gunnery directors that mechanically linked radar to guns, then exploded in complexity with aegis in the 1980s, when the us navy decided ships needed a single digital nervous system instead of separate crews yelling numbers at each other.
aegis speedtracks over 100 targets simultaneously, automatically
human roleoperators supervise, the system recommends the kill
cost driveroften pricier than the ship's hull itself
software heavymillions of lines of code, constantly patched
for instance
aegis combat system — us navy destroyers, tracks air and missile threats since 1983
combat management system 9lv — saab-built, used on australian and swedish frigates