هذه مقالة رائعة عن الدروس المستفادة من الحرب الجوية في ليبيا
طبعا هو درس غريب لكن مهم للغاية
يقول الجنرال الايطالي نائب ريس القوات ان الدرس المهم انك لا تحتاج الى طائرات حديثة ذات تقنية في الحرب بعد الايام الاولى اي بعد تحييد الدفاعات الجوية اي من غير المنطقي إرسال ألتايفون والرافال لعمل طلعات بالساعات او تدمير دبابة وهي كلفة تشغيلها عاليه !
تستطيع الان بعد ان تقوم ألتايفون والرافال في الايام الاولى استخدام طائرة عادية اقل كلفة للدوريات الجوية !
احضرت المقال لارى رايكم !
لان دول الخليج خاصة لا تستخدم طائرات صف ثاني بل كل طائراتها صف اول مكلفة !
LONDON — Although much of the focus of Libya strike operations has been on platforms such as the Tornado GR4, Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale fighters, one lesson emerging from the conflict is the need to have a low-cost aircraft to support such prolonged operations.
“We need to think about the need for the future for a low-cost platform to be able to do our job, if required, in a permissive environment,” argues Brig. Gen. Silvano Frigerio, deputy chief of air and space plans in the Italian air force and chief of the targeting directorate for NATO’s Libya operations.
“If we don’t have a composite fleet with very high technology and maybe lesser technology aircraft, how can we manage to fly thousands and thousands of flying hours on a joint operation area looking for one armored vehicle with the sophisticated aircraft we will have in the future? Maybe we can’t afford to stay there for such a long time,” he says. During the Libya operations, allies were worried about the cost of the duration of the conflict, he tells the International Quality and Productivity Center’s annual International Fighter Conference here.
Italy saw the difference firsthand when comparing the cost of operating a fully loaded AMX ground attack aircraft with other strike assets.
The conflict also reinforced the need for smaller, low-collateral-damage weapons.
Frigerio points to broader insufficiencies that the NATO alliance needs to deal with, as well. One is the need to bolster its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection capabilities, as NATO depended roughly 80% on U.S. assets during the campaign.
Speaking of projects such as the Alliance Ground Surveillance program — an effort to acquire Global Hawks for NATO — he says, “we need to continue on this way.”
Not all the gaps are equipment-related. For instance, the alliance needs to establish a center of excellence for targeting in order to increase the number of targeters available to support an operation and ensure they are trained to a common standard. A NATO-common collateral-damage estimating methodology also is required, he adds.
Photo: Dassault
المصدر
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gene...ine=Libya Ops Show Need For Lower-Cost Strike
طبعا هو درس غريب لكن مهم للغاية
يقول الجنرال الايطالي نائب ريس القوات ان الدرس المهم انك لا تحتاج الى طائرات حديثة ذات تقنية في الحرب بعد الايام الاولى اي بعد تحييد الدفاعات الجوية اي من غير المنطقي إرسال ألتايفون والرافال لعمل طلعات بالساعات او تدمير دبابة وهي كلفة تشغيلها عاليه !
تستطيع الان بعد ان تقوم ألتايفون والرافال في الايام الاولى استخدام طائرة عادية اقل كلفة للدوريات الجوية !
احضرت المقال لارى رايكم !
لان دول الخليج خاصة لا تستخدم طائرات صف ثاني بل كل طائراتها صف اول مكلفة !
LONDON — Although much of the focus of Libya strike operations has been on platforms such as the Tornado GR4, Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale fighters, one lesson emerging from the conflict is the need to have a low-cost aircraft to support such prolonged operations.
“We need to think about the need for the future for a low-cost platform to be able to do our job, if required, in a permissive environment,” argues Brig. Gen. Silvano Frigerio, deputy chief of air and space plans in the Italian air force and chief of the targeting directorate for NATO’s Libya operations.
“If we don’t have a composite fleet with very high technology and maybe lesser technology aircraft, how can we manage to fly thousands and thousands of flying hours on a joint operation area looking for one armored vehicle with the sophisticated aircraft we will have in the future? Maybe we can’t afford to stay there for such a long time,” he says. During the Libya operations, allies were worried about the cost of the duration of the conflict, he tells the International Quality and Productivity Center’s annual International Fighter Conference here.
Italy saw the difference firsthand when comparing the cost of operating a fully loaded AMX ground attack aircraft with other strike assets.
The conflict also reinforced the need for smaller, low-collateral-damage weapons.
Frigerio points to broader insufficiencies that the NATO alliance needs to deal with, as well. One is the need to bolster its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection capabilities, as NATO depended roughly 80% on U.S. assets during the campaign.
Speaking of projects such as the Alliance Ground Surveillance program — an effort to acquire Global Hawks for NATO — he says, “we need to continue on this way.”
Not all the gaps are equipment-related. For instance, the alliance needs to establish a center of excellence for targeting in order to increase the number of targeters available to support an operation and ensure they are trained to a common standard. A NATO-common collateral-damage estimating methodology also is required, he adds.
Photo: Dassault
المصدر
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gene...ine=Libya Ops Show Need For Lower-Cost Strike
