Research on New Air Combat Concepts of US Military

Abstract

In the context of competition among great powers, the US military continues to develop new air combat concepts such as distributed operations and penetrating counter-air, and uses these concepts to guide the development of future air combat platforms and weaponry, as well as promote the generation of brand new forces of air combat system. This paper summarizes the new air superiority combat concepts proposed by the US military in recent years, and summarizes the characteristics of the combat concepts from the aspects of system architecture, combat mode, equipment capability, etc. The impact on the future air combat OODA is analyzed, and the key technical directions of situation awareness technology, dynamic networking technology, independent group building technology, cooperative attack technology for future development are discussed, and development suggestions on deepening the research on top-level innovative combat concepts, strengthening the construction of battlefield shared information network, strengthening the research and application of artificial intelligence technology, and improving the autonomy and flexibility of weapons are put forward.

Keywords

• |combat concept|distributed operation|penetrating counter-air|mosaic warfare|network collaboration|situation awareness|artificial intelligence