Enabling Global Strike: EW Upgrades for the USAF's Bomber Fleet

摘要

The point could not be made more clearly. Released in January, the Air Force Material Command's "Global Horizons" Science and Technology Study request for information (RFI) states that, "Although the US has enjoyed air superiority in all conflicts since the Korean War, near-peer competitors and future contested and anti-access/area denial (A2AD) environments raise the possibility of air parity or even the risk of conceding superiority to the adversary. Though pervasive global access is a key enabler in maintaining air superiority ... being an agile, expeditionary air force is expensive and complex, posing challenges for sustainment. And the platforms and weapons that are highly effective today risk new threats in the mid and far term."