Future Air Force Needs for Survivability
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Future Air Force Needs for Survivability

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eBook - ePub

Future Air Force Needs for Survivability

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About this book

A key technical issue for future Air Force systems is to improve their ability to survive. Increased use of stealth technology is proposed by many to be the major element in efforts to enhance survivability for future systems. Others, however, suggest that the high cost and maintenance required of stealth technology make increased speed potentially more productive. To help address this issue, the Air Force asked the NRC to investigate combinations of speed and stealth that would provide U.S. aircraft with a high survival capability in the 2018 period, and to identify changes in R&D plans to enable such aircraft. This report presents a review of stealth technology development; a discussion of possible future missions and threats; an analysis of the technical feasibility for achieving various levels of stealth and different speeds by 2018 and of relevant near-term R&D needs and priorities; and observations about the utility of speed and stealth trade-offs against evolving threats.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2006
eBook ISBN
9780309180559
Edition
0
Topic
Physical Sciences

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  3. COMMITTEE ON FUTURE AIR FORCE NEEDS FOR SURVIVABILITY
  4. AIR FORCE STUDIES BOARD
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgment of Reviewers
  7. Contents
  8. Figures and Table
  9. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  10. Executive Summary
  11. 1 Background and Overview
  12. 2 Operational Environment
  13. 3 Technological Setting
  14. 4 Assessing the Operational Utility of Speed and Observability Trade-offs
  15. 5 Findings and Recommendations
  16. Appendixes