Air Force Pacific Pursues New Weapons to Destroy Enemy Surface-to-Air Missiles
By Kris Osborn - Warrior Maven
(Washington D.C.) The Air Force wants to make sure it can destroy advanced enemy Surface to Air Missile Systems and sustain a decided measure of air superiority against rivals now engineering much more advanced air-defenses likely to include AI-enabled target processing, faster digital networking, longer ranges and a wider sphere of frequency detections.
Given this evolving and troubling reality, the Air Force’s Pacific Commander says “SAMS†represent a threat scenario growing in priority, inspiring an “urgent operational need†for new E-7 surveillance planes and the now airborne 6th-Gen Next Generation Air Dominance aircraft.
PACAF Commander Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach described this need recently at the Air Force Association symposium as “taking away an enemy’s domain awareness.
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