The National Interest reports that the U.S. Air Force regularly conducts training exercises that simulate air combat against major powers and in which it simulates a complex and interrelated set of variables, threats and challenges that it believes it could face in the event of a third world war.
According to a report prepared by the National Interest’s defense affairs editors, this is the U.S. Air Force’s well-known Red Flag exercise, which mobilizes air force platforms and combat units against an opponent known as the Red Team, an advanced and well-equipped team with advanced air defense systems and advanced enemy aircraft similar to the The training includes other types of multi-domain warfare scenarios that U.S. forces may encounter during the war.
A U.S. Air Force report talks about how the warfare tactics used in the above exercises are designed to mimic enemy superpowers with advanced capabilities, and the training is designed to prepare the U.S. Air Force and its allies for a new generation of multi-domain warfare.
The U.S. Air Force report also noted that “while air warfare tactics remain the primary focus of the Red Flag exercise, the exercise also mixes threats from space and cyberspace to ensure participants are prepared to successfully respond to and overcome a variety of obstacles that are detrimental to the mission.”
The National Interest noted that the training exercise addresses many technical issues, such as methods to overcome anti-aircraft jamming signals from ground radars that impede aircraft’s ability to accurately strike targets, as well as methods to conquer modern electronic warfare applications that may be designed to impede detection by air-to-air weapons launchers, address GPS positioning that could mislead attacking aircraft in a challenging environment, and forcing attackers to operate without communications or GPS.
According to the National Interest report, deterring enemy air defense is a longstanding and critical mission for the Air Force, a task that will become even more difficult when coupled with the complexity of applications and the sophistication of modern space and electronic equipment.
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