Future of the Joint Air ATtack Team in the Air-Land Battle

摘要

Joint service doctrine defines the JAAT as follows: 'The Joint Air Attack Team (JAAT) involves a combination of attack helicopters and tactical/fixed-wing aircraft, normally supported by artillery or naval gunfire, operating together simultaneously to attack surface targets.' The JAAT can be a combat multiplier against a highly motorized and modernized enemy on the battlefield of the 1990s. Procedures for conduct of the JAAT have been standardized and disseminated for implementation among all of the United States Armed Forces. The doctrinal publication is now in the field as a working draft. The threat facing the JAAT on the modernized battlefield of the 1990s will cause some current procedures and equipment to be outmoded. The JAAT is described from its inception to the JAAT concept in use today. Technological improvements in the JAAT's systems and in the threat's capability are used as a means to show the changes and transitions needed to the future JAAT concept. The study illuminated seven findings which are also presented. Joint military activities; Combat effectiveness; Air strikes. Artillery fire. (edc)