Combat aircraft with advanced avionics

摘要

Air power is key in combat. Militaries worldwide rely increasingly on combat aircraft for missions ranging from intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) to search and rescue, cargo and personnel transport, and precision weapons targeting. "Combat is done with air power now," Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Billie Flynn affirmed in his talk on military fighter aircraft at the Aerospace Innovation Forum in Montreal. The key to pushing the technology envelope, to push what the aircraft itself can do, is to take the human, who has historically been the limiting factor, out of the equation, he says. Yet, to do more with less, innovation is required. Modern avionics are answering the need for increased situational awareness, greater performance, and various military-operations and peace-keeping capabilities.