Future Air Force Needs for Survivability (2006) / Chapter Skim
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1 Background and Overview
1 Background and Overview
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. As enemy air defense capabilities continue 1Robert E
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Air warfare in World War II was characterized by the introduction of radar systems that saw beyond visual range and created for the first time in history an opportunity for long-range detection and tracking of hostile aircraft.The successful defense of Great Britain was to a great extent enabled not only by the resolute attitude of the English people in the face of repeated attacks and by the implausible strategic blunders of Adolph Hitler, but by the ability of the Royal Air Force to know where the enemy air forces were and how to employ its relatively meager air assets most efficiently to ensure their defeat. Electronic countermeasures also became a factor in the avoidance of German radar detection.
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, along with shape features and materials to decrease the radar cross section. The speed, signature, and a high-altitude operation combined to make the aircraft quite survivable against ground air defenses as well as airborne interceptors.
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To successfully accomplish these missions -- Global Strike and Persistent Global Attack -- serious consideration must be given to the quality of improved enemy air defense threats to ensure that analyses of alternatives result in systems that can accomplish the mission despite that expected threat. There is no need to recount in detail in this report the incredible success that has been demonstrated in recent conflicts by U.S.
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Obviously, reduced exposure time affects defensive-system success. With the exception of the F-22 and the SR-71, all previous aircraft operate at subsonic speeds for most of their operational missions.
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2Robert E Ball, the Fundamentals of Aircraft Combat Survivability Analysis and design, Second Edition, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Education Series, 2003.
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Some, as in the case of the F-22, are capable of sustained supersonic speed that, when combined with stealth, tactics, and battlefield awareness, makes it very difficult for enemy air defense systems to prevent them from accomplishing their assigned missions.
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It was understood that addressing these tasks in detail would require briefings and discussions held in a secure environment and that the Committee on Future Air Force Needs for Survivability would produce a nonpublic version of the final report. SCOPE AND COMMITTEE APPROACH Consistent with the priority expressed in Task 1, the committee focused on options for long-range strike: that is, a mission requiring the aircraft to have long range, penetrate alone and unsupported into heavily defended territory, deliver precision weapons onto fixed or moving targets, and return safely to base.
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To address Task 3, the committee drew upon the information gathered in Task 2 and used its own expertise to propose consensus combinations of speed and stealth that it believes would result in equivalent survivability levels in the long-range strike mission. Based on the expertise of individual committee members and drawing on their sponsoring organizations, the committee also assessed the technical feasibility of achieving the speed-stealth combinations mentioned above for an aircraft with initial operational capability (IOC)
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Chapter 4 describes the committee's observations regarding aircraft stealth, speed, and survivability drawn from its analysis of relevant recently published reports, supplemented by briefings received by the committee and its own expertise in the field. It overlays the technical feasibility analysis of Chapter 3 on the proposed speed and stealth targets for aircraft survivability to highlight the gaps in current R&D investment plans.
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