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The Maritime Services, the Allies and Shaping the Kill Web

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.

The F-35 may actually be its own follow-on.

So any discussion of “what is a 6 gen Fighter” might be premature.
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Instead of the old paradigm of needing to completely build another fighter to move from the WWII Battle of
Midway F-2A “grape” to Joe Foss and his Green Knights flying the F-4U “Whistling Death,” the Marines can
just change and update their F-35 system, sensors and weapons.

The Marines are already IOC in flying the F-35B with a pre-planned product improvement design philosophy.

It is a software upgradeable platform to pull and replace or add system capabilities and thus have total
flexibility to add new sensors and improved AA missiles and as non-stealth “bomb truck” is carries more than
current F/A-18 with much great accurate battlefield sensing.
Again this makes the case for understand better a Pu function beyond just ordinance carried.

Evolving concepts of USMC operational development is at chapter one, because recognizing and exploiting
man-machine three-dimensional knowledge is truly a brave new world.

Consequently, all F-35 T/M/S are capable of constantly updating into the next generation of U.S. fighters but
not by building a new airframe but staying inside the F-35 basic airframe and adding the next generation of
systems and weapons.

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