Download or read book NATO Air Defenses written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flak written by Edward B. Westermann and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash across the sky, and the night is aflame with tracer fire and aerial explosions, as Allied bombers and German anti-aircraft units duel in the thundering darkness. Such "cinematic" scenes, played out with increasing frequency as World War II ground to a close, were more than mere stock material for movie melodramas. As Edward Westermann reveals, they point to a key but largely unappreciated aspect of the German war effort that has yet to get its full due.Long the neglected stepchild in studies of World War II air campaigns, German flak or anti-aircraft units have been frequently dismissed by American, British, and German historians (and by veterans of the European air war) as ineffective weapons that wasted valuable materiel and personnel resources desperately needed elsewhere by the Third Reich. Westermann emphatically disagrees with that view and makes a convincing case for the significant contributions made by the entire range of German anti-aircraft defenses.During the Allied air campaigns against the Third Reich, well over a million tons of bombs were dropped upon the German homeland, killing nearly 300,000 civilians, wounding another 780,000, and destroying more than 3,500,000 industrial and residential structures. Not surprisingly, that aerial Armageddon has inspired countless studies of both the victorious Allied bombing offensive and the ultimately doomed Luftwaffe defense of its own skies. By contrast, flak units have virtually been ignored, despite the fact that they employed more than a million men and women, were responsible for more than half of all Allied aircraft losses, forced Allied bombers to fly far abovehigh-accuracy altitudes, and thus allowed Germany to hold out far longer than it might have otherwise.Westermann's definitive study sheds new light on every facet of the development and organization of this vital defense arm, includi

Download or read book Setting the Context written by James R. Brungess and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) has long been a critical concern to advocates of air power. It is especially critical because air power offers a primary means of responding rapidly and effectively to areas of conflict. Setting the Context: Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses and Joint War Fighting in an Uncertain World explains why SEAD has changed the basic fabric of air warfare. It provides a unique and original view into the world of electronic combat and SEAD that will enrich as well as inform. Lt. Col. James R. Brungess wrote this book for the Airpower Research Institute and it was the winner of the Air Force Historical Foundation's 1992 Colonel James Cannell Memorial Award.

Download or read book Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.

Download or read book Electronic Warfare written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To suppress enemy air defenses, U.S. armed forces use specialized aircraft designed to neutralize, destroy, or temporarily degrade enemy air defense systems through either physical attack or electronic warfare. Concerns have been raised that the Air Force's decision to retire EF-111 and F-4G suppression aircraft, combined with a growing threat from increasingly sophisticated enemy air defenses, has created a gap between the services' suppression capabilities and their needs. GAO (1) examined the steps that the military has taken since 1996 to improve its ability to suppress enemy air defenses and (2) evaluated the services' plans to eliminate any gap between their suppression capabilities and needs. GAO found that the services have improved their suppression capabilities, such as increasing the size of their fleets of F-16CJ and EA-6B suppression aircraft, improving the electronic warfare and missile systems on these aircraft, studying cost-effective alternatives for suppression in the future, and reviewing electronic warfare programs to determine if these programs are adequately managed, prioritized, and funded. However, GAO also found that current suppression capabilities are not adequate and that no comprehensive, cross-service strategy exists for achieving the suppression mission.

Download or read book Setting the Context Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses and Joint War Fighting in an Uncertain World written by James Brungess and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) has long been a critical concern to advocates of air power. It is especially critical because air power offers a primary means of responding rapidly and effectively to areas of conflict. Setting the Context: Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses and Joint War Fighting in an Uncertain World explains why SEAD has changed the basic fabric of air warfare. It provides a unique and original view into the world of electronic combat and SEAD that will enrich as well as inform. Lt. Col. James R. Brungess wrote this book for the Airpower Research Institute and it was the winner of the Air Force Historical Foundation's 1992 Colonel James Cannell Memorial Award.

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Download or read book Rings of Supersonic Steel written by Mark L. Morgan and published by Hole In The Head Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Setting the Context written by Air University Press and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Brungess proposes using joint suppression of enemy air defenses (JSEAD) to address the problem of reduced SEAD resources available to individual services. He contends that the demise of the Soviet Union presents the perfect transitional period for SEAD planners to create new approaches to countering the information-based integrated air defense system nets. He looks at the foundations and evolution of SEAD, identifies pertinent variables, and shows how they have changed. Colonel Brungess concludes that fiscal reality demands that the services forge joint SEAD tactics and doctrine. Contents * FOREWORD * PREFACE * INTRODUCTION * Chapter 1 * HISTORY AND DOCTRINE * The Evolutionary Construct * Vietnam * Bekaa Valley * Libya * Persian Gulf * The Larger Context * Notes * Chapter 2 * CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING SEAD EFFECTIVENESS * Methods of Analysis * The Historical Approach * The Engineering Approach * The Commonsense Approach * The Objective-based Approach * Setting the Context: Continuums as Assessment Tools * Challenges for Objective-based Criteria * Notes * Chapter 3 * SERVICE APPROACHES TO SEAD * Navy SEAD * Air Force SEAD * Army SEAD * Marine SEAD * Notes * Chapter 4 * THE MERITS OF JSEAD: THE QUEST TO ACHIEVE EFFECTIVENESS * The Personality of JSEAD and the Threat * The World of "Joint" and JSEAD * Brave New World: 'True" Joint SEAD * The Four Continuums: How to Use Them * The Need: Resource-based Continuum * The Threat: Capability-based Continuum * The Piecemeal/Integrated Tactics Continuum * The Defensive/Offensive Continuum * The General Context: A New Way of Looking at JSEAD * Notes * Chapter 5 * JSEAD: STRATEGY, TACTICS, AND THE CHANGED THREAT * The Essence of the Threat * Requirements of the Information-based IADS * Detecting * Locating and Identifying * Tracking * Weapons Allocation and Employment * Defeating the IADS: Information Denial * Detection as Information * Locating and Identifying as Information * Information Denial in the "Endgame" * Adjusting to Fiscal Reality * SEAD Tactics: Variations, Combinations, and Innovations * Variations: The "IADS Sweep" * Combining Old Tactics: SEAD and the Modern Long-Range SAM * Innovations: Information Denial via Computer Warfare * Joint SEAD Strategy: Dividing the Turf * JSEAD Tactics: So What? * Notes * Chapter 6 * WHERE TO NEXT: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS * Conclusions * SEAD as an Evolutionary Concept * Requirement for a Paradigm Shift * The Lead/Lag Issue: Joint Doctrine and JSEAD * Shifting the Focus of Criteria: * Overall Objectives * Recommendations * Education * Training * Equipment * Full Circle: The Strategy-Doctrine-Tactics Continuum

Download or read book Location Suppression and Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses Linking Missions to Realize Advanced Capabilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) mission has evolved into a holistic approach that links kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities to attack enemy Integrated Air Defense Systems (lADS) as a whole. With increasing requirements placed on advanced multi-role SEAD aircraft, emerging aircraft such as the EA-18G must incorporate multiple mission capabilities with an adequately complex training infrastructure to realize their maximum capabilities.

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Download or read book JTTP for Joint Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses J SEAD written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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