5th Generation Aviation
The combination of low observable characteristics and integrated, fused avionics creates a platform that grants access to airspace that is otherwise denied. Additionally, 5th generation aircraft are force multipliers by sharing sensor data with other platforms to increase situational awareness and shorten the time required to find, fix, track, target, and engage threats across the air combat spectrum. NATO is embracing 5th generation aircraft through wide procurement of the F-35 which will become the basis of NATO airpower. JAPCC is ready to assist in the development of 5th generation air power throughout the NATO alliance.
Featured Publications
Autonomous Collaborative Platforms
A Strategic Roadmap for Allied Air Power
The Strategic Imperative: NATO’s historical reliance on high-value, exquisite, and numerically constrained crewed platforms is increasingly challenged by sophisticated Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2AD) networks. To maintain credible deterrence and operational freedom of manoeuvre in the future operating [...]
Rebalancing Combat Aviation Training
Integrating Synthetic Environments for Multi-Domain Readiness
Combat pilots have always preferred to fly, and throughout history that preference has shaped how militaries train. However, for the past several decades, simulator training has supplemented live flight hours. As synthetic environments grow in [...]
Deterrence in the Multi-Generational Battlespace
From Westphalia to Hybrid Warfare
In October of 1648, Swedish forces launched a daring assault on Prague, storming its fortifications while Imperial defenders fought desperately to hold the city. Artillery thundered across the Vltava River as disciplined infantry formations clashed [...]
