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United States Air Force: Air Doctrine – Provide Global Capability
Objective:Know how the United
States Air Force is structured in terms of missions and roles
Describe the characteristics, objectives and aircraft used to provide the United States Air Force a rapid global mobility capability
Joint Task ListAirlift Capabilities
Berlin Airlift
Air-Refueling CapabilitiesSpacelift CapabilitiesAEF Capabilities
United States Air Force: Air Doctrine – Provide Global Capability
PROVIDE AIR AND SPACE SUPERIORITY
PROVIDE COUNTER AIR CAPABILITIE
S
PROVIDE COUNTER SPACE
CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE PRECISIONENGAGEMENT
PROVIDE LETHAL
PRECISION ENGAGEMENTCAPABILITIES
PROVIDE NON-LETHAL
PRECISION ENGAGEMENTCAPABILITIES
PROVIDECSAR
CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE INFORMATIONSUPERIORITY
PROVIDEINFORMATION OPERATIONS
CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE GLOBAL ATTACK
PROVIDE STRATEGIC
ATTACK CAPABILITIE
S
PROVIDE COUNTERLAND CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE COUNTERSEA CAPABILITIE
S
PROVIDE SPECIAL FORCES
CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE RAPID GLOBAL MOBILITY
PROVIDE AIRLIFT
CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE AIR REFULEING
CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE SPACELIFT
CAPABILITIES
PROVIDE AEF
CAPABILITIES
Joint Task List
Global Capability - Airlift
Airlift is the transportation of personnel and materiel through the air that can be applied across the entire range of military operations in support of national objectives.
Airlift missions are typical divided into 2 categories: Intra-Theater Lift (Strategic
Lift) Inter-Theater Lift (Tactical Lift)
Intra-Theater
Inter-Theater
In 2010, the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command (AMC) flew more than 153,000 sorties and about 529,000 flight hours. AMC delivered about 2.24 million passengers and 827,000 tons of cargo –more than the combined population of Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
Global Capability - Airlift
C-130
C-17
C-5
Berlin Airlift (1948)Post war Germany was divided into three sections--
the Allied part was controlled by the United States, Great Britain and France and other part by the Soviet Union. The city of Berlin, although located in the eastern Soviet half, was also divided into four sectors
Global Capability – Airlift: Case Study
Berlin Airlift In June 1948, the Soviet
Union attempted to control all of Berlin by cutting surface traffic to and from the city of West Berlin.
Surviving a harsh German winter, Allied airlift carried over two million tons of supplies in 270,000 flights. The blockade of Berlin was finally lifted by the Soviets on May 12, 1949.
Global Capability – Airlift: Case Study
Air Refueling is an integral part of US airpower across the range of military operations. It significantly expands the employment options available to a commander by increasing the range, endurance, payload, and flexibility of air forces.
In 2010 alone, Air Force tanker aircraft offloaded more than 1.58 billion pounds of fuel to 115,000 receiver aircraft.
Global Capability – Air RefuelingKC-135 KC-10
Spacelift programs enable the delivery of satellites, payloads, and materiel into or through space. Often the Air Force will work alongside NASA in a joint partnership.
Air Force spacelift operations are conducted to deploy, sustain, or augment satellite constellations supporting national security objectives.
Global Capability – Spacelift
Space Operations CenterMonitors military satellite activityIdentifies and tracks all the space debris orbiting the planet
Global Capability – Spacelift
So what is an AEF? The term AEF stands for Air Expeditionary Force and is basically how the Air Force is organized to train and deploy its forces across the world.
The Air Force is divided into 10 AEFs of roughly the same operational capability.
Global Capability – AEF Support
AEF1
AEF2
AEF3
AEF4
AEF5
AEF6
AEF7
AEF8
AEF9
AEF10
To support the 10 AEFs requires significant resources and personnel from engineers to administration to everything in between. Each airbase on foreign soil is like a city with all the municipal support requirements you would normally find; police, fire, services etc.
Global Capability – AEF Support
United States Air Force: Air Doctrine – Provide Global Capability
Objective:Know how the United
States Air Force is structured in terms of missions and roles
Describe the characteristics, objectives and aircraft used to provide the United States Air Force a rapid global mobility capability