1 Introduction
Notes 1 Introduction 1 For example, while acknowledging that current US UCAS programmes do not meet requirements for an air superiority fighter, Lt Col Devin Cate believes UCAS have the potential to become a future generation air-superiority fighter by 2025. See generally, Lt Col Devin L. Cate USAF, The Air Superiority Fighter and Defense Transformation: Why DoD Requirements Demand the F/A-22 Raptor, Master’s Degree, USAF Air University, 2003. See also, Travis J. Gill, Carrier Air Wing Tactics Incorporating the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (NUCAS), Master’s Degree, Naval Graduate School, Monterey, CA, 2010. Gill evaluates a scenario in which F/A-18 Super Hornets and F-35C Lighting II aircraft are supported by UCAS in gaining control of the air. 2 See US Department of Defense, Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap FY 2011–2036, Washington, DC, 2011, p. 17. Also see, Office of the US Secretary of Defense, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Roadmap: 2005–2030, Table 6.2-1, p. 74, and US Department of Defense, United States Air Force: Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan 2009–2047, p. 39. 3 Development, Doctrine and Concept Centre, Joint Concept Note 3/12: Future Air and Space Operating Concept, Shrivenham: Ministry of Defence, 2012, p. 4. See also, ‘House of Commons Defence Committee, Remote Control: Remotely Piloted Air Systems – Current and Future UK Use: Government Response to the Committees, Tenth Report of Session 2013–14, Volume II, Written Evidence’, The Stationery Office Ltd, London, 2014, Ev w2, para 2.13. 4 See UK Ministry of Defence, Joint Warfare Publication 3-63: Joint Air Defence, 2nd Edition, Shrivenham: Joint Doctrine & Concepts Centre, 2003, p.
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