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The Maritime Services, the Allies and Shaping the Kill Web

The skillfulness and success of fighter pilots in aerial combat is an extensively researched yet modestly
understood and fundamentally complex concept.

Innumerable physical and psychological factors along with chance opportunities affect a pilot’s facility for
success in air combat.

Perhaps the best narrative of the intangibles of the skill and courage of a fighter pilot was captured by the
author Tom Wolfe in his seminal work The Right Stuff.
From the first day a perspective fighter pilot begins their personal journey to become a valuated and
respected member of an elite community, serving as an operational squadron pilot, the physical danger is
real.

But so is the most significant force for being the absolute best that a fighter pilot can feel which is day in and
day out peer pressure by those they really and truly respect, their squadron mates.

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

In our discussion with the TOPGUN team they emphasized that the pilots came from the fleet, and while at
TOPGUN, they honed their skills in the aircraft and helped to develop future TTPs against emerging threats.
“We are looking to make the squadron pilot more capable in real world operations.”

“We have been working integration with the F-35 for some time.

“The advantage of the TOPGUN pilot is that we have wrung out the capability of the Super Hornet and have
brought that knowledge to integration with the F-35.

“We look for how each platform can enable the other to maximize lethality and survivability for the fleet.”

The Challenge of Training And Shaping Development: In a Software
Development Platform World

By Robbin Laird

August 28, 2017
The Australian Defence Force has set a tough bar for itself – shaping an integrated force and crafting an
ability to design such a force.

This is a tough bar but one which they are trying to energize in part by leveraging their new platforms to
shape a way ahead beyond the classic after-market integration strategy.

But how best to do this with regard to training and development of the force?
And how to maximize the combat effectiveness to be achieved rather than simply connecting platforms without
a significant combat effect?

When we visited Fallon this year, we were impressed that the training command is adding new buildings
which are designed to shape greater capability to get the various platform training efforts much better
connected.

Second Line of Defense

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