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USAF Has Too Many Missions and Not Enough Airmen INSIDE: The F-22 and F-35 Feed Each Other p. 15 | China Corners the Market on Rare Elements p. 52 USAF has too many missions and not enough airmen SOMETHING’SSOMETHING’S GOTTAGOTTA GIVEGIVE p.21 February 2018 $8 Published by the Air Force Association February 2018. Vol. 101, No. 2 FEATURES STAFF Publisher Larry O. Spencer Editor in Chief Adam J. Hebert 21 Managing Editor Juliette Kelsey Chagnon Editorial Director John A. Tirpak News Editor Amy McCullough Assistant Managing Editor Chequita Wood Senior Designer 15 56 Dashton Parham Pentagon Editor 15 Lightning and Thunder 34 Compass Call and 52 Rare-Earth Uncertainty Brian W. Everstine By John A. Tirpak Response By Peter Grier Senior Editor The F-35 and F-22 are By Brian W. Everstine A long list of obscure Wilson Brissett teaching each other new Electronic warfare isn’t going elements are vital for Digital Platforms Editor tricks. away—but EC-130Hs will. advanced electronics and Gideon Grudo military systems. China has 21 Growing Pains 40 Life on the Line Production Manager cornered the market. By Amy McCullough by Brian W. Everstine Eric Chang Lee Something’s gotta give. USAF is probably buying 56 In Pursuit of the Bismarck Photo Editor fewer aircraft than you think. By John T. Correll Mike Tsukamoto 27 Replacing Minuteman Here’s a look at what’s Swordfish torpedo bombers By Wilson Brissett actually on the production crippled the German The Air Force is finally moving Contributors line. battleship. British battleships John T. Correll, Robert S. forward with a program to cruised in to finish the job. Dudney, Peter Grier, Jennifer develop a next generation Hlad ICBM. 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Publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Trademark registered by Air Force Association. Copyright 2018 by Air Force Association. FEBRUARY ★ AIRFORCEMAG.COM Editorial By Adam J. Hebert, Editor in Chief Develop, Borrow, Steal: The Race for Tech WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, OHIO— One of the United States’ undeniable advantages lies in its recurring ability to turn science fiction into reality. American innovators have repeatedly transformed the world with both rev- olutionary consumer goods and unmatched government-spon- sored capabilities. Much of the technology the Air Force has sponsored has underpinned national security for decades. During the Cold War, the US turned to technology as a way to offset the Soviet Union’s enormous numerical advantages. It was a strategy that paid off handsomely. Today, the nation is reaping the benefits of many technologies USAF was present for from the beginning. Unmatched stealth USAF is developing the next generation of revolutionary China’s J-31 (top) is an F-35 knocko, and DOD admits it. capabilities. Can it field them first? scratch if you can steal major portions of the plans? ■ In 2014, the Justice Department indicted five members of aircraft like the F-22 Raptor, the now-ubiquitous Global Posi - China’s Peoples Liberation Army for “economic offenses directed tioning System, ever-evolving precision weapons, and remotely at … the US nuclear power, metals, and solar products industries,” piloted aircraft like the MQ-9 Reaper all owe their existence in according to a DOJ release. This was formal acknowledgement large measure to Air Force-inspired American ingenuity. China had military hackers targeting the US. Maj. Gen. William T. Cooley, a mechanical engineer by educa - The bottom line is that, in addition to protecting advantages tion and now commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory the Air Force already has, USAF must keep the pedal to the metal. (AFRL) here, has watched USAF’s science and technology suc - Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has asked AFRL to “clean cesses and struggles for nearly three decades. New technologies the whiteboard,” and take a fresh look at the Air Force’s entire progress too slowly and emergent capabilities frequently stall science and technology enterprise, said Cooley. The compre - when it comes time to transition to operational use. These are hensive S&T review will run the duration of 2018. “enduring problems,” Cooley said in an interview. Overall, AFRL is staffed by outstanding scientists and engi - But what happens when an enemy—whether by watching neers with “a lot going very well,” he said, but AFRL cannot rest the US publicly wage its wars for the past 27 years, or by taking on its laurels. advantage of rapidly advancing commercial technologies, or “Organizations can sometimes get in a rut and not necessarily through a surreptitious hacking campaign—is able copy, steal, pay attention to emerging things. Every so often you need to or just avoid America’s technological advantages? This is a view with new eyes the state of the environment,” Cooley said. growing problem. “To be agile enough to maintain our advantage, the Air Force Many enemies, large and small, have effectively “gone to must reach for … game-changing technologies,” stated USAF’s school” on modern war by carefully observing US operations 30-year “A Call to the Future” strategy paper in 2014. Some since 1990. Regarding commercial capabilities, Cooley notes of the more promising technologies cited were hypersonic that industrial research and development funding first surpassed speed, nanotechnology (to create lighter and stronger struc - government R&D in the 1990s, and the private sector now out - tures), directed energy, and unmanned systems. Three years spends the government by two-and-a-half times. on, Cooley says AFRL is “continuing to push those [and] make Quickly developing the next generation of game-changing them militarily useful.” capabilities and successfully transitioning them into operational It is ever harder to stay in first place technologically, but with use is more important than ever. It is increasingly difficult to keep consistent support from DOD and Congress the Air Force is well the nation’s technological advantages. Some recent examples: positioned to do just that. This is never a given, however. As ■ Images of China’s J-20 stealth fighter first surfaced in 2010, Cooley noted, when funds are tight, programmers will inevitably when then-Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was visiting the raid the future to pay for current needs. communist state. Gates had previously predicted that Chinese Whether it is hypersonic weapons, scalable laser weapons stealth fighters would not appear until 2020. that almost never run out of ammo, autonomous programs that ■ Two years later, China’s J-31 flew for the first time. Top take much of the toil out of intelligence processing (or capa - Defense officials say China’s J-20 and J-31 stealth fighters were bilities too secret to be discussed yet), the race to develop the greatly aided by espionage. Indeed, head-on, a J-31 is almost next generation of war winning capabilities is on—and it has indistinguishable from a Lockheed Martin F-35. Why start from no finish line. Photos: ifuun.com; USAF FEBRUARY H AIRFORCEMAG.COM Innovation: The Warfighter's Edge February 21-23, 2018 | Orlando, FL | AFA.org i Letters Joint Punishment higher echelon when a defense agency vious assignment had been in the F-15 Your editorial on joint assignments director is a two-star oicer or lower, or Eagle. However, I remained true to my [“Giving Joint Assignments Their Due,” when the senior general oicer billet is “calling” to serve in a joint assignment, December, p. 2] provided a good analy- vacant. I say automatically because Air as the “importance of joint work” was sis of the dilemma of serving in joint Force element commanders or person- the propaganda of the times. assignments. I agree that the Air Force nel oicers should not screen personnel I was assigned as the only fighter needs to “train, educate, develop, and of the same rank as themselves. pilot in the Intelligence Center Pacific reward folks” for joint assignments. In my Lt. Col. Russel A. Noguchi, (IPAC) and was first recognized for my 20-year Air Force career I had three joint USAF (Ret.) analysis of the KAL 007 shoot down by assignments and one joint school for a to- Pearl City, Hawaii the Soviets on Sept.
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