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The Maritime Services, the Allies and Shaping the Kill Web

It will take about 10 years of U.S. range time and combat experience to figure out all the competitive
advantages of the F-35 and a weapons revolution.

The learning curve to improve sensors, system capability and weapons carried quickly compared to building
another airframe may be a new American and allied way of industrial surging.

The arsenal of democracy may be shifting from an industrial production line to a clean room and a computer
lab as key shapers of competitive advantage.
For the first time in history, individual F-35 pilots –A, B or C – will have the best database of real time
knowledge in the history of combat aviation.

And all of this is internal to their cockpit and enabled by advances in computer processing and sensor
information fusing.

Each F-35 pilot combined with human sensing (seeing visual cues outside the cockpit) will be enabled by
machine driven sensor fusion to allow combat “situational awareness” (SA) better than any other opponent.

Concurrent with their ability to look-see, which is limited by physical realities, the F-35 pilot will be able to
“see” using cockpit electronic displays and signals to their helmet allowing them not to just fight with their
individual aircraft but be able to network and direct engagements at significant range in 360 Degrees of 3
dimensional space out to all connected platforms.

A fleet of F-35s will be able to share their fused information display at the speed of light to other aircraft
and other platforms, such as ships, subs, satellites, and land based forces, including UAVs and eventually
robots.
Tactically, “Aegis is my wingman, ”“SSGN is my fire support” will be developed for conventional warfare.

This enables a “tactical” aircraft to evolve into a key technology for strategic operations and impacts.

Tron Warfare and the Z Axis

The F-35 is known as a 5th generation player in the state-of-the-art for both the Air-to-Air Fighter and Air-to-
Air Attack combat roles.

It also adds an “electronic” or “tron” warfare component to the fight.

Electronic Warfare (EW) is a complex subject with many discreet but also connected elements.

EW was designed inherently into the F-35 airframe and Fusion Cockpit.

EW can include offensive operations to identify an opponent’s emissions in order to and fry spoof or jam their
systems.
In successful “tron” war, often-kinetic kill weapons can be fired. An F-35 can be a single sensor/shooter or off
load its track to other platforms such as; planes, ships and subs and eventually UCAS-Unmanned Aerial
Combat Systems.

The kinetic kill shot is usually a high speed missile designed to HOJ (home on jam). It has been said on the
modern battlefield — air, sea or land — if not done correctly, “you emit and you die.”

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