The command can also be called upon to assist national agencies with intelligence, surveillance and crisis response capabilities. Prior to assuming this position, General Hostage was Commander, U. Air Force Fighter Weapons School, and a command pilot with more than 4, flying hours. In May , press reports have indicated Hostage ordered pilots to fly the F Raptordespite problems with its oxygen system.
Hostage has said that some of the problems the pilots encountered were simply limits of the human body, but that UAVs were not suitable for the AirSea Battle concept of the Pacific Pivot. In Hostage said that his plans to retire the A fleet would put greater demands on USAF pilots and that their readiness was crucial. We were at risk of losing our crown jewel. We have just about completed putting 3. But even , it is an absolutely compelling force.
We were impressed. From your perspective, how will the challenge of working the Fs and the Fs be worked with the legacy fleet? General Hostage: You mean the Re-norming air operations if I were to steal a term? Fusion is what makes that platform so fundamentally different than anything else.
Fusion is the fundamental delineator. And fusion changes how you use the platform. Because the SA right now that the fifth gen has is such a leveraging capability that I want my tactics set up to where my fourth gen expend their ordinance using the SA that the fifth gen provides, the fifth gen could then mop up, and then protect everybody coming in the next wave.
We are fundamentally changing the tactical battlefield. How a tactical platform operates with the fusion of fifth gen. What the aviators do is fundamentally different in a fifth gen platform versus fourth gen in the tactical fight. From an operational standpoint, there are some changes because there are now some things that we can do with fifth gen that I might not have been able to do before.
But the fundamental mechanism of producing air superiority, to enable ground operations, to enable deep strike, to enable all these other things; those fundamental things, those tasks are the same. I have got the command embarked on a full-court press to get a fourth to fifth, fifth to fourth capability that will need a combat cloud to be fully empowered, but it will then allow us to fundamentally change how the fourth generation platforms fight in addition to the fifth gen.
If I can get that machine-to-machine, now the fourth gen platform will begin to realize some of the benefits inherently at the tactical level that the fusion engines of the fifth generation aircraft provide. Question: It has been pointed out by analysts such as the former chief scientist of the USAF, Mark Lewis , that the weapons revolution to exploit the full capabilities of the fifth generation aircraft needs to be unleashed.
How do you view the evolution of weapons working with the fleet, and where we need to go in that domain? And how you played them off against one another. Does that make sense? General Hostage: It does. I think an excellent portrayal of the value of looking at the interaction of those parameters is to examine Raptor versus the Lightning.
The altitude, speed, and stealth combined in the two platforms, they give the airplanes two completely different levels of capability.
The advanced fusion of the F versus the F means those airplanes have an equal level or better level of invulnerability than the Raptors have, but it takes multiple airplanes to do it because of the synergistic fused attacks of their weapon systems.
Question: The allies and partners from this standpoint are key enablers of a global F fleet. And another key aspect of what you are talking about is changing the concepts of operations of airpower with the fifth generation, and to build and to design to a 21 st century battlefield, not the battlefield that we had 30 years ago. General Hostage is a graduate of the U. Air Force Fighter Weapons School, and a command pilot with more than 4, flying hours.
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