FY96 Air Vehicles Technology Area Plan

Abstract

Air Vehicles and their technologies have been a key to U.S. success in resolving conflicts throughout the 20th century. The recent conflict in the Persian Gulf reinforces this conclusion. In that conflict, conventional and low observable aircraft were used to rapidly soften up defenses, min command and control links, establish air superiority and virtually destroy the morale of the enemy prior to a ground battle. Superior air vehicles will continue to dominate modem warfare. The USAF, to maintain clearly superior aircraft vehicles and design capability, is focusing Science and Technology (S&T) investments on the development of highly affordable air vehicles while retaining their capabilities to win the conflicts of the future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA354185

Entities

Organizations

  • Air Force Materiel Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aerodynamic Configurations
  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Military Aircraft
  • Payload
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control