U.S. Navy Pilots Lack the Skills to Defeat Chinese and Russian Pilots in Combat

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November 13, 2019

U.S. Navy Pilots Lack the Skills to Defeat Chinese and Russian Pilots in Combat

The U.S. Navy’s fighter pilots lack the skills to defeat Chinese and Russian pilots in combat, one officer warned. To better prepare for high-tech combat, the sailing branch’s F/A-18 crews should fire more live missiles in exercises and better focus their training, Navy officer Graham Scarbro advised at War on the Rocks.

by David Axe 
The U.S. Navy’s fighter pilots lack the skills to defeat Chinese and Russian pilots in combat, one officer warned.
 

To better prepare for high-tech combat, the sailing branch’s F/A-18 crews should fire more live missiles in exercises and better focus their training, Navy officer Graham Scarbro advised at War on the Rocks.

“Current Navy strike-fighter squadrons do not fire enough air-to-air missiles, and their training mission profiles are too fragmented between air-to-air, air-to-ground and other mission areas,” Scarbro wrote. “In a future conflict with China or Russia, as in the past, naval aviators should expect these deficiencies to yield combat losses unless they are mitigated in peacetime.”

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-navy-pilots-lack-skills-defeat-chinese-and-russian-pilots-combat-95951