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and the key opportunity driven by fifth generation is the enhanced lethali-
ty and survivability of other combat assets.

(5) The F-35 is not a replacement aircraft, and that the U.S.
Navy’s discussion of 6th generation is not really about a platform but a
decade or more of fifth generation warfare learning and a determination
of what comes next, less in terms of a generational aircraft iteration and
much more in terms of what can and needs to be added to the blue side
combat capability going forward.

(6) The shift from COIN to higher tempo warfare is a key
shift. And the usual argument about the spectrum of warfare misses the
point that it is about enhanced decision making in a more rapid opera-
tional environment regardless of the spectrum on which you are fighting.

(7) The shift in training is crucial:

“We tend to be conservative in our TTPs and are still cap-
tured by the replacement platform mentality. We do not want to do TTPs
for the F-35B informed by the Harrier; we do not want to do TTPs for the
F-35C informed largely by Super Hornet thinking. We need a paradigm
shift in the war fighting culture with regard to the F-35."

(8) The F-35 is both informing and informed by this shift to-
wards warfighting in the extended battlespace.

(9) The reach not range approach is a central part of F-35 en-
abled operations.

(10) The intersection of the coming of the F-35 with the over-
all evolution of new technologies and concepts of operation is the role of
the sea base.

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