Marine F-35s Fight F-117 Aggressors, Train For Very Long-Range Combat In Huge West Coast Exercise
Winter Fury ’22 is a major example of the Marines pivoting toward preparing for a peer-state conflict over great distances.
Winter Fury ’22 is a major example of the Marines pivoting toward preparing for a peer-state conflict over great distances.
The Royal Air Force has plans for a series of drills that will test its fighters’ abilities to operate from dispersed airstrips.
The threat of losing its runways in the Pacific theater to ballistic missile barrages has accelerated the USAF’s austere basing initiatives.
The concept, which is part of a larger initiative to make the Air Force capable of operating in a dispersed manner over huge geographical area, gives airmen multiple responsibilities beyond their core specializations. This can include defending their outpost from enemy attack, refueling and rearming jets, and more.
The ability to rush small detachments of unmanned aircraft to remote, forward locations could enable all new operational concepts.
A single task force of stealth fighters and rescue aircraft could offer a new model for crisis response missions.
Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command are getting creative when it comes to poking holes in enemy anti-access/area denial capabilities