Analysis of the Operational Scenarios of U.S. Military’s Long Range Air-to-Air Intervention Operations in a Intense Combat Environment

Abstract

Based on the analysis of the demand of U.S. aviation assets to implement of the long-range air-to-air intervention of the great powers high-end war, and combined with the penetrating counter air fighter, collaborative combat aircraft, AIM-260 air-to-air missiles, Long Shot unmanned aerial vehicles and other projects, as well as the latest concept of operations, such as agile combat employment, this paper researches and analyzes three kinds of long range air-to-air intervention operation scenarios: using the next generation stealthy manned fighter to achieve kill chain self-closing, based on stealth manned aircraft and stealth unmanned aircraft to execute distributed air operations, and using existing non-stealth aircraft under the outer information support to carry out long-range air-to-air strikes. In the end, raise three points of view.

Keywords

• |long-range intervention|penetrating counter air fighter|collaborative combat aircraft|air-to-air missiles|operation scenario