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Northern Edge validated that the US has something world class and unique—a long
range 360 search, and sort information system in a Fighter/Attack aircraft that will has
both EW/”tron” warfare capability and kinetic AA and AG weapons in the bay.

A successful Pacific Rim fleet wide “honeycomb” ISR grid can be created with enough
USAF/USN/USMC and Allied F-35s flying along the Pacific Rim. F-35’s in the Ja-
panese self-defense Force are extremely important along with Australia, Singapore and
South Korea.

US and Allied con-ops can begin to offensively link the DAS capability to hypersonic
CMs in the hands of the good guys-. –Imagine an F-35 lights up a threat and then out
pops a hypersonic CM from an SSGN or a Zumwalt (DDG-1000) class (all two of them)
or an Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) surface combatant, or is launched from many different
USAF air platforms both piloted and UCAS.

Equally important the F-35 “Z-axis” mitigates the “wasting asset” argument being made
against our Fleet. The Fleet Commander will have tremendous situational awareness
(SA) to defend against enemy hypersonic CMs, and also IRBMs end game maneuvering
warheads.

In that game instantaneous speed of light information originating from cockpits in a
fleet of F-35s is a real game changer. From point of launch to possible impact the Navy
Fleet employing a 1600+ diameter DAS capability can begin to figure out how to net-
work all fleet “weapons” to kill, jam, fry or spoof incoming hypersonic CMs and
endgame maneuvering IRBM. R&D efforts in directed energy research would add to the
mix of weapons to employ.

Essentially, the Commander and all operators will have the best SA knowledge possible
to successfully track the flight path from launch to endgame maneuvering. Early detec-
tion just like fighting an aggressive cancer is a life savor.

If the F-35 did not exist the Air/Sea Battle Commanders would have to continue to in-
vent or improve a lot of expensive disparate systems to do what one aircraft can accom-
plish-no platform fights alone is a winning strategy.

Second Line of Defense December 2014

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