Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Tactical Air Warfare

Abstract

The terms of reference for the Tactical Air Warfare Task Force tasked the Defense Science Board (DSB) to review a fascinating set of the country's acquisition options for tactical air warfare over the next 10 to 20 years. (See Appendix A for Terms of Reference.) As the force structure is resized and restructured to meet the challenges of a disorderly new world order there will be opportunities for important new approaches and perspectives. More specifically, we were charged with exploring promising concepts and technologies that might provide high leverage in cost and effectiveness against foreseeable threats. Our task force was organized to review as much of the spectrum of tactical air warfare as time would permit. Appendix B lists the members and panels. We began by analyzing historic trends in tactical air warfare. In those efforts we focused on the concepts of operations that were in practice, sought to discern how the then-current technologies drove us to employ those concepts, and sought to derive where the trends in operational concepts coupled with technology advancements might lead us

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA275347

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Science Board

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Information Systems
  • Military Aircraft
  • Military Applications
  • Military Organizations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapons Effects

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  • Business Analytics
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies