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As Captain McLaughlin, the outgoing CO of Strike, explained in an interview with Sec-
ond Line of Defense:

The current Fallon ranges – although large – are too small to train against an advanced threat,
which can shoot longer than the ranges. We need to train to a 21st Century Plus type of threat
with very long-range missiles in the mix.

It is not about succeeding; it is about how we are going to do this with highest probability of suc-
cess.

We are rolling in Live Virtual Constructive Training to provide the extenders for our operators
to work in that threat environment and to reach out to other assets – Navy and joint – which can
allow us to fight in an expanded battlespace.

Rear Admiral Mike Manazir, the Admiral responsible for the future air systems of the
US Navy, perfectly describes Live Virtual Constructive Training:

Live, virtual, constructive (LVC) training is a way to put together a representation of the threat
baseline where you can train to the very high end using your fifth generation capability. Some of
it is live with a kid in the cockpit, some of it is virtual in a simulator, and so “virtual” is actually
the simulator environment. And then constructive is a way to use computers to generate a sce-
nario displayed on either or both of the live or simulated cockpit.

You can also combine them to be live-constructive, or virtual-constructive, and by that I mean
there are systems out there right now that you can install in the airplane that will give you a
constructive radar picture air-to-air and surface-to-air along with the electronics effects right
onto your scope.

You’re literally flying your airplane, and through a data link, you can share that information be-
tween airplanes, you can share it between dissimilar airplanes.

You could take a set of Navy airplanes, for instance, an E2D and a division of F-18s or F-35s on
the Fallon range. And you could have a constructive scenario that is piped into all five of those
airplanes.

Second Line of Defense December 2014

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