Relating Ranges and Airspace to Air Combat Command Missions and Training

摘要

Training aircrews for combat requires access to ranges suitable for actual or simulated weapon delivery and to dedicated airspace suitable for air- to-air and air-to-ground tactics. To enhance this access, Air Combat Command (ACC) needs a comprehensive, objective statement of its range and airspace requirements, linked to national interests, and a means to compare existing infrastructure with these requirements. Project AIR FORCE (PAF) and ACC, working in concert, met this need by developing an analytic structure containing the following elements: * Operational requirements that aircrews and other combatants must be trained to support. * Training tasks required to prepare aircrews for their assigned operational tasks. * Range and airspace characteristics needed for effective support of each training task. * Minimum durations of training events on ranges or airspace with specified characteristics. * Dimensions, location, equipment, operating hours, and other characteristics of current ranges and airspace. * Relational links among operational requirements, training requirements, infrastructure requirements, and available assets.