Luftkrieg im 21. Jahrhundert

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The U.S. Navy's Plan to Dominate the Sky in the 2030s (And Beyond)

The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) effort—which until recently used to be called the F/A-XX—will study a range of options to replace the service’s aging strike fighter fleet in an era of renewed great power contest where the threat environment promises to grow evermore challenging. But unlike previous Pentagon programs, the NGAD may not be a single new airframe—rather it might be a family of systems.

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The study will identify a capability replacement solution that preserves the effectiveness and viability of the CSG amidst emerging/evolving threats.”

Those emerging threats include—among many others—a host of new enemy aircraft like the Chinese Chengdu J-20 and J-31 and potent new air and missile defense systems like the Russian-built S-400 and S-500.

And the problem is not just the performance of individual enemy missile batteries or aircraft, both the Russians and Chinese have learnt to network their forces together into a coherent whole, as Rear Adm. Mike Darrah, the Navy’s program executive officer for unmanned systems and strike weapons described at the Navy League’s Sea, Air and Space symposium in May. Moreover, it’s not just the threat to the Navy’s aircraft, new Russian and Chinese long-range anti-ship cruise and ballistic missiles—particularly Beijing’s DF-26—have the ability to threaten an aircraft carrier far out to sea.

The Navy hopes that it will be able to use a family of systems approach to develop the NGAD capability to overcome those threats and maintain the carrier’s role as the dominant maritime power projection platform without breaking the bank.