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North European and North Atlantic Defense: The Challenges Return

The revolutionary point is the enemy can splash an individual F-35, but cannot kill the knowledge gained by
all: that aspect of modern warfare is truly unique 21st Century technology brought to an air battle.

On the offensive, if one F-35 picks up an enemy’s airborne vulnerability such as an aircraft system or weapon
frequency emission or stealth breakdown it can be sent to all.

Thus, another unique aspect of F-35 21st Century capabilities is that every Lightning II is a real time
intelligence dissemination system.

The Combat Learning Dynamic

Additionally for combat learning, the entire engagement can also be captured electronically for immediate
and direct refinements to tactics and analysis at the Marine Air Weapons Training Squadron, Navy Air
Warfare Development Center and USAF Weapons School during the air battle.

Put another way, the training dynamic can go from training prior to deployment to engagement in combat
learning while combat is under way. This is a work in progress but inherent in the new technologies and the
new combat learning cycle.

These three different services graduate schools of studying and perfecting combat flying.

USMC- MAWTS, USAF -Weapons School, and the Navy’s-NADWC, are the absolute top of the Combat
Airpower pyramid in both turning out the best combat instructors while also focusing on a flying curriculum to
embed selected Squadron Pilots who undergo their post-graduate train back into their Squadrons in order to
instill in all their mates the most current tactical thinking on how to fly, fight and win any air battle in any
threat conditions in any part of the globe.

http://www.sldinfo.com/squadron-fighter-pilots-the-unstoppable-force-of-innovation-for-5thgeneration-
enabled-concepts-of-operations/

In this new century, the concept of each pilot being a three dimensional warrior with superior knowledge has
been pioneered by the USMC aviation community.

The F-35 is not designed for the early century’s concept of the “dog fighting” -- the knife fight.

It has the growth potential for internal changes to its systems to always incorporate the best weapons while
expanding empowerment of combat pilots to have three-dimensional knowledge to elevate the fight to a new
and different level.

Like Boyd stressing studying Psub s graphs, the F-35 can refocus on 360 three-dimensional information fused
into actionable intelligence to begin to learn how to fight a new fight.

A knife fight dynamic in 1 v 1 is a pilot needing to use “Guns D”—throw the aircraft all over the sky to break
a tracking solution-if that flying skill is needed than the pilot has failed at a certain level.

The F-35 can pioneer a different type of engagement like earlier pilots avoiding having to do a “Guns-D”
to always keep an advantage.

It will take years to fully understand and evolve the combat tactics of the F-35 as a driver of the kill web.

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