Aircraft Survivability: Reclaiming the Low Altitude Battlespace. Fall 2003

Abstract

This edition of the Aircraft Survivability Journal focuses on reclaiming the low-altitude battlespace. By saying that we need to reclaim the low-altitude battlespace, I imply that we have already lost that area of combat operations. I think many will argue that point, but I also think that we can safely say that if we have not given it up entirely, we have definitely retreated from using it as we would like. In general, helicopter operations will always need to take place under 15,000 feet. Fighter aircraft can mostly avoid low altitudes if necessary, but will often perform missions at lower altitudes. And transport and reconnaissance aircraft may operate in these altitudes, but they most certainly spend quite a bit of time transitioning through. So if all our aircraft use this airspace, why did we ever give it up at all?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA529146

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Detection
  • Engineers
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Transport Aircraft
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Educational Psychology
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites