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Why is control of the air important for operations

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Need to control air for successful military operations

Freedom of operations

Safeguards sovereignty is peacetime

Control access in times of tension

Protects from air attack in war

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Which adversarial assets should be targeted in Counter Air Ops?

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Aircraft and missiles

Aerospace infrastructure

Stockpiles of fuel, munitions, lubricants, and gasses

Aircraft parts

Personnel possessing specific skills

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Offensive Counter Air (OCA)

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Conducted in hostile, neutral, or contested territory

Initiated by friendly forces

Requires alot of intelligence

Prevent launch or employment or adversary capabilities

Disrupt or destroy those capabilities as close to the source as possible

Broken down into:

  1. Air to surface
  2. Air to air
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Defensive Counter Air (DCA)

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Conducted in neutral or friendly territory

Targets of DCA are air-bourne

Employs air to air and surface to air fires capabilities

Reactive in nature

DCA is surveillance driven (C2)

High risk no fail mission

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DCA Goal

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Detect, identify, intercept, nullify, and/or destroy threats as far from friendly forces as possible

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OCA Goal

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Disrupt, neutralize, and destroy the deployment of aerospace capabilities

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DCA missions

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Area defense (air intercept / aerospace warning and control)

Point defense (combat air patrol)

High value air-bourne asset protection

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OCA missions

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Air to surface (surface attack / suppression of enemy air defense)

Air to air (escort / sweep)

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HVAA Protection

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Air-bourne strategic assets that are highly valuable that require protection in operational theater due to lack of manoeuvrability or means of self defense

(Area defense and/or escort/sweep operations)

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3 OCA planning steps

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  1. Set Objectives
  2. Determine target
  3. Allocate resources
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Escort

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Counter any threat

Use A/A capable aircraft to protect friendly aircraft

Tied to single asset or whole formation

Rigid and requires more coordination

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Attached escort

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Tied to a formation
High level of tactical integration
Less resource intensive

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Detached escorts

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Not directly tied to a formation
Remain in proximity
Less integration
Greater OCA freedom of action

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Organic escort

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Multi role aircraft, self protection

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Sweep mission

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Strong C2

Less resource intensive and more effective than escorting

Operates independently of other friendly formations

It can start as sweep then become detached escorts

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Factors required for OCA

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Target characteristics

Threats

Environmental conditions

Intelligence

Potential for fratricide or collateral damage

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Two subsets of air to surface missions

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  1. Surface attack

2. Suppression of enemy air defense

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Surface attack

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Directed towards adversary aerospace capabilities only

Prevent enemy from using aerospace power

Demanding high risk missions requiring further planning

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SEAD acronym

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Suppression of Enemy Air Defense

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SEAD definition

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Targets adversaries based on air defense, weapons, surveillance and C2 capabilities

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SEAD platforms

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ECR Tornado
F16 CJ
EA-18G Growler

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3 types of SEADs

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Area supression

Localized supression

Opportune supression

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Area supression

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Disables enemy air defense systems over a wide area

Done by kinetic and non kinetic means

Desirable but resource intensive

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Localized supression

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Focuses on specific portions of battle space

Less resource intensive but commits friendly forces to maintain SEAD capability through the campaign

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Opportune supression

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SEAD assets target surface to air threats.

May be conducted either self or strike package protection as a result of hunting for threats

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Air surveillance operations

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Conducted to monitor designated airspace by detecting and tracking operations and intrusions

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Air enforcement operations

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Conducted in permissive environment to support law enforcement operations and exert control over designated airspace

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Air defense operations

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Conducted to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile or air action through active measuree

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Centers of gravity

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  1. Leadership
  2. Production
    A. Industry
    B. Economy
  3. Transportation
  4. Civilian population
  5. Military
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Leadership COG

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Personnel in leadership positions

C2 systems

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Production 2 sub categories

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Industry

Economy

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Industry COG

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Cut off ability to wage war

Ie. Oil production

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Economy COG

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Counter economy operations intent is the collapse the adversaries economy

Ex. Embargo

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Transportation COG

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Strategic targeting of vital transportation centers and transport means

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Civilian population COG

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Civilian opinion can have an effect

Ex. Information operations directed at civilians

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Military COG

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Strategic counter military operations that impede on adversaries military capability

Ex. Targeting of a nuclear bomb, bases

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Air Interdiction

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Air operation conducted to divert, disrupt, delay, degrade, or destroy enemy’s military potential

ABM (2 decks)

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