This Functional Area Requirement (FAR) describes readiness information requirements for Air Force Major Commands. It discusses the information requirements at three management levels: Air Staff, Major Command, and Wing. The desired characteristics of an operational readiness measurement system are presented...
The target acquisition system in the missile acquires the target in the terminal phase of flight and transmits the data using the TVM downlink via the ground radar to the engagement control station for final course correction calculations. The course correction commands are transmitted to the missile...
The nine major commands of the Air Force are the Air Combat Command, which is responsible for all combat aircraft based in the continental United States; Air Force Materiel Command; Air Force Reserve Command; Air Education and Training Command; Air Force Space Command; AirMobilityCommand; Air Fo...
CCAs flying with the manned fighter jet can seamlessly receive and execute commands from the pilot. They are expected to carry advanced sensors, electronic warfare packages or additional munition to augment the fighter jet and perform different roles, including as a shooter, jammer or a sensor. F...
There are two major differences between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. 1) Japan was a military country. Not a couple of hundred / thousand jihadists. The scale is totally different. 2) Japan did declare war. It’s somewhat mind-boggling to me that anyone would think the US invasion of Afghanista...
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has traced the root of the worsening economic hardship in Nigeria to the Boko Haram insurgency, Niger Delta militancy, agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra and the effects of the global fall in the price of oil, which is Nigeria's major revenue earner noting that the persistence of th...
our conventional forces and are not optimized for counterinsurgency, or even split down the middle that try to do both. A major with two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan summed up the problem that weighs heavily on the minds of many officers in the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines...
But I’ve learned to deal with it in two major ways, and that’s what I want to talk to my fellow GMs about. Go Out With A Bang If you know you’re going to be losing a player, the first thing to do is give them some additional “spotlight time” over their last couple of ...
Wednesday, giving pilots the chance to practice combat against peer and near-peer technology. The exercises included F-22s, F-35s, B-52s, F-16s and C-130s based out ofNellis Air Force Base.The training ground commands over 12,000 square miles of airspace and 2.9 million acres of land....