Therefore, for Western air forces, planning operations against modern IADS is more complex and challenging than against a standalone system — even a very modern one like the SA The medium- and shorter-range systems would doctrinally tend to be attached to ground force units closer to the frontlines, whilst the strategic SAMs are used to protect key facilities. The question is not whether the Russian IADS could eventually be degraded and rolled back, but whether NATO forces could do so quickly enough to avoid defeat on the ground while deprived of regular close air support in the meantime.
In conjunction with increasing aerial capabilities, the Chinese IADS presents a dynamic and growing challenge to the freedom of action of the US and its allies near the Chinese mainland. This means that a modern SEAD capability will soon be required in far more military situations than the peer-clash scenario of a conflict with Russia or China.
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The high-altitude intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ISR aircraft, used extensively for operations in the Middle East, was brought down by an Iranian derivative of the Russian Buk M3 SA , a medium-range surface-to-air missile SAM system.
The relative ease with which Iran shot down the US ISR asset raised concerns among many defense analysts and observers.
David A. Senior Air Force and Department of Defense officials have been warning about this threat for some time. In late , then-Maj. These threats include hypersonic weapons, air-to-air missiles with ranges exceeding nautical miles, and long-range surface-to-air missiles with reaches of up to nm. John A. They are instead developing holistic capabilities that operate in every domain—land, sea, air, space, cyberspace, and across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Analysts and operational planners should strive to use a common language when discussing IADS, and incorporate this knowledge in order to plan against these complex systems as missions dictate. This understanding must include recognition that a linear, simplistic approach to defeating modern, complex IADS is insufficient and instead requires integrated multi-domain operations. Rather than a single weapon or person, it is an amalgamation of elements, organized to minimize threats in the air domain.
Thus, an effective IADS performs three functions—air surveillance, battle management, and weapons control. Of these, air surveillance alone includes five specific sub-functions: detect, initiate, identify, correlate, and maintain. For example, if a system sees three tracks in close proximity, a sensor operator has the option to consider the tracks a single entity or three different aircraft.
Correlation is important as it can have a significant impact on weapon resourcing. This reduces the ability to defeat the human factor in a modern IADS, and there is more importance given to the ability to generate multiple effects on air surveillance nodes in order to degrade the awareness of an IADS. After surveillance, the battle management aspect of an IADS includes four functions: Threat evaluation, engagement decision, weapon selection, and engagement authority.
Battle management marks the transition from identifying a threat to acting against it. Battle management makes the determination that a given radar track is in fact a threat and then selects the weapon to counter that threat.
The engagement authority is the final step in battle management that confirms the threat, engagement, and weapon selection decisions. These decisions transition into weapons control, where a particular weapon system performs the weapons pairing, acquiring, tracking, guiding, killing, and assessing functions. Within weapons control, even more refined degrees of air surveillance and battle management tasks are occurring too.
The difference is these are strictly related to the specific weapon that is engaging a threat. The complexity of modern command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence C4I systems, and processes used by IADS are often underestimated. For instance, it would be unusual to observe an individual weapon system component of an IADS, such as a fire-control radar, providing air surveillance within an IADS.
Because these weapon systems share similarities with air surveillance tools, they appear as though they can do just that, and are often mistakenly thought to perform the same task. Modern IADS leverage multiple communications channels, including traditional landlines, fiber-optic networks, and radio frequency and electromagnetic spectrum links. Download modelofintegrate00smit. Author Smith, Bryan F. Advisor Walsh, William J. Second Reader Bailey, Michael P. Metadata Show full item record.
The functions and attributes of an IADS such as target detection, track data processing, target position and accuracy estimation, target assignment, information relay to other unites and information relay delays are described. Rights This publication is a work of the U. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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