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Spring /Summer 2017 The Journal of the JAPCC – Transforming Joint Air Power Air Joint Transforming – Journal of the JAPCC The Edition 24, Spring /Summer 2017 PAGE 6 PAGE 11 PAGE 28 The JAPCC Interview Hypersonic Vehicles Future Battlefi eld with Major General Game Changers for Rotorcraft Capability Max A. L. T. Nielsen Future Warfare? Part 1: Analysing the Edition 24 Edition Chief of Air Staff , Future Operating Environment Defence Command Denmark NATO’S PARTNER FOR COLLECTIVE DEFENCE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • As NATO’s trusted partner ThalesRaytheonSystems provides Europe’s first-ever Integrated Air and Ballistic Missile Defence Command and Control System. ThalesRaytheonSystems’ unique international experience working in concert with an industrial network from NATO 15 Nations, make it the most reliable partner to lead NATO’s evolving Air C2 efforts and to expand BMD programme to include all European territory. PubThalesRaytheonSystem_DefenseMattersA4_EXE.indd 1 22/05/2017 15:32 Editorial NATO’S PARTNER FOR It is our great pleasure to present the 24th Edition between nations, based on lessons learned in COLLECTIVE DEFENCE of the JAPCC Journal. A prominent theme per Oper ation Unified Protector. This is a major step meating this journal is the significance of the Joint in the development of nonUS AAR capacity across Strike Fighter arriving in many NATO Allies’ national NATO, and both of these programs are significant forces. Starting off, Major General Max A. L. T. force multipliers for the Alliance. Nielsen, the Danish Air Chief, provides us his per spective on the unprecedented potential of the Returning to our 5th Generation theme, we have • F35 and the challenge of developing Tactics, European and American perspectives on the ad Techniques & Procedures to fully exploit its 5th gen vent of 5th generation air combat and the F35, • eration capabilities in a system of systems with followed by a JAPCC perspective on the broader 4th generation aircraft that will remain widely in question of how 5th generation aircraft will be inte service. This is a capability that is going to truly grated into the coming networked Command & transform the way NATO air power is employed Control (C2) environment. Two additional view • • across all domains including space and via cyber. points explore the use of training and technology • • to improve rotary wing safety in brownout condi Another transformational capability is hypersonic tions, and the integration of new Maritime Patrol • flight. Effective, reliable and efficient hypersonic Aircraft capabilities into networked C2 for better • • • avi ation presents amazing opportunities. A com AntiSubmarine Warfare and Detection and Moni • prehensive article from the NATO Science and toring. Wrapping up this issue are a trio of outside • • Technology Office gives a view into the current the box articles on the growth of Close Air Support • • • • state of this technology. Following this theme of as an air force mission area, new threats and consid • future capabilities is the first in a series of three erations for hybrid warfare, and the Competence • articles about future rotorcraft and the operating Centre for SurfaceBased Air and Missile Defence. • • • • • environment we expect to see for them in 2035. • For a comprehensive look into this issue, the JAPCC We thank you for taking the time to read this • has established a Rotary Wing Focus Group that in edition of our Journal, and thank our authors for • cludes rotary wing experts from land and maritime their insightful contributions to what we hope you • • • • forces in addition to Air Force SMEs on Personnel find to be an educational and thoughtprovoking • • Recovery, Special Operations, Attack and Airlift. issue. We strongly encourage our readers to share • their thoughts as they go forth and advocate for air Shifting gears, two articles address cuttingedge power, and to contact us at www.japcc.org, like us training to improve the interoperability and effec on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter or Linkedln to tiveness of NATO forces. First, the Distributed tell us what they think. Good Reading! • Training Operations Centre and the growing effi cacy of LiveVirtualConstructive training is a cost effective solution to keep NATO forces current, qualified, and ready to operate cooperatively in a As NATO’s trusted partner ThalesRaytheonSystems provides conflict. Next, JAPCC has developed a new pro Tod D. Wolters Europe’s first-ever Integrated Air and Ballistic Missile Defence gram for training and exercising NATO planners in General, USA AF Command and Control System. the coordination of AirtoAir Refuelling clearances Director, JAPCC ThalesRaytheonSystems’ unique international experience working in concert with an industrial network from NATO 15 Nations, make it the most reliable partner to lead NATO’s The Journal of the JAPCC welcomes unsolicited manuscripts. Please e-mail submissions to: [email protected] evolving Air C2 efforts and to expand BMD programme to include all European territory. We encourage comments on the articles in order to promote discussion concerning Air and Space Power. Current and past JAPCC Journal issues can be downloaded from www.japcc.org/journals The Journal of the JAPCC Römerstraße 140 | D - 47546 Kalkar | Germany PubThalesRaytheonSystem_DefenseMattersA4_EXE.indd 1 22/05/2017 15:32 34 84 90 Table of Contents Transformation and Capabilities Viewpoints Royal Danish Air Force – JAPCC Perspective on the Fifth 6 Next Generation 62 Generation Aircraft Discussion Interview with Maj Gen Max A. L. T. Nielsen Air Warfare Communication in a Networked Environment Hypersonic Vehicles 11 Game Changers for Future Warfare? Beating Brownout 68 Technology Helps, but Training Remains Key Future Battlefield Rotorcraft Capability Enabling Maritime ISR Part 1: Analysing the 28 through the ‘Family of Systems’ Future Operating Environment 74 Preserving NATO’s C2 Edge Out of the Box 34 Capitalizing on MTDS / LVC Advanced Capabilities The Rise of Close Air Support 79 after World War II Did the US Army and US Air Force Inter- Better Together Service Rivalry Benefit Close Air Support? 40 First Ever AAR Clearance Request /Approval Training and No Fair Fights Table Top Exercise 84 The Effects of Hybrid War, Disinformation, and RPA Automation on NATO Air Power European Security and 46 the Significance of the F35 The Competence Centre for Surface 90 Based Air and Missile Defence Fifth Generation Air Combat Preserving the EADTF Legacy and Furthering 54 Maintaining the Joint Force Advantage the IAMD Mission 4 JAPCC | Journal Edition 24 | 2017 | Table of Contents Imprint: Transforming Joint Air Power: The Journal of the JAPCC Director Joint Air Power Competence Centre Gen Tod D. Wolters 46 Executive Director Joint Air Power Competence Centre Lt Gen Joachim Wundrak Editor Air Cdre Madelein M.C. Spit Assistant Editor Lt Col Martin Menzel Production Manager / Advertising Manager Mr Simon Ingram Editorial Review Team 68 Col Brad Bredenkamp Lt Col Martin Menzel Ms Diane Libro Purpose The JAPCC Journal aims to serve as a forum for the presentation and stimu lation of innovative thinking about Copyrights strategic, operational and tactical aspects Ad 34: © NAEW Ad 90: © Bundeswehr Ad 46: © Lockheed Martin Ad 68: Helicopter: © Crown Copyright, of Joint Air and Space Power. These Ad 84: © tsuneomp / shutterstock Sky: © Yevhenii Chulovskyi / shutterstock include capability development, concept Front Cover: F35: © Lockheed Martin, Eurofighter: © Crown Copyright, F16: Lithuanian Air Force, and doctrine, techniques and proce Sky: © prapann /shutterstock dures, in teroperability, exercise and train ing, force structure and readiness, etc. Disclaimer Inside the JAPCC The views and opinions expressed Mitigating Disinformation or implied in the JAPCC Journal are those of the authors concerned and should Campaigns Against Air Power 95 not be construed as carrying the official Training the DCA / QRA sanction of NATO. Trainers at the MATC Terms of Use Helicopter Users Data Base – Unless particularly stated otherwise, all A New JAPCC Project to Improve content produced by JAPCC Journal Capability Building authors is not subject to copyright and may be reproduced in whole or in part The JAPCC Rotary Wing Focus without further permission. 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Nielsen, Chief of Air Staff, Defence Command Denmark The JAPCC is grateful to Major General Max Nielsen for In the near future, we must – once again – be ready taking the time to provide us with the Danish perspec to face an advanced and determined peerlevel ad tive on key issues facing