Luftkrieg im 21. Jahrhundert

[Quintus Fabius]

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedin...d7d7885bbb

Resurrect the ‘Outer-air’ Battle
The AMRAAM is no longer good enough to counter China’s antiship cruise missiles and growing naval warfare capabilities.

Between the 1980s and ᾿90s, much of the fighter/air wing antiair warfare training focused on fighting the “outer-air” battle against a Soviet Union threat. The strategy was to have F-14 Tomcats armed with Phoenix and Sparrow missiles sitting on the threat’s weapon release line, thus forcing enemy units to fight through our F-14s to reach a launch point—i.e., “It’s easier to shoot the archer than his arrows.” This meant keeping long-range fighters armed with long-range missiles fueled and on station for relatively long periods.

Today, the People’s Republic of China, with bombers escorted by long-range fighters armed with long-range missiles, and with its antiship missiles, poses as great a threat to the carrier strike group as the Soviet Backfire/Blackjack long-range bomber force did in the 1980s. But because of the requirement to support the war efforts in the Middle East and Afghanistan for the past 19 years, U.S. fighter aviation has failed to keep pace with the development of a long-range air-to-air missile to counter China.

Spezifisch in Bezug auf die Marine ist es meine Ansicht, dass konventionelle Überwasser-Einheiten angesichts solcher Entwicklungen obsolet werden.