How America Can Avoid Another “Pearl Harbor” in the Pacific

It would be much harder, if not impossible, for the Chinese army to target US air and naval property if it were scattered before the first blow.

What would happen if China began hostilities in Indo-Pacific as part of a plan to capture Taiwan? How would the aviation ensure that its air bases and aircraft do not prey to Chinese rockets and suicide drones?

Mostly through two combat concepts: agile combat employment, or ace, and a point of arming and filling of fuel, or farp.

AS and FARP

As And the farp are the two most important concepts of aviation. Under AsSeveral aircraft and small detachments of support staff are applied for a moment in expeditional bases and implementation operations.

During the recent Beverly Pack 25-1 exercise, aircraft from the 8th fighter wing tested their Ace possibilities Quickly arranged in a simulated forward location at Gwangju Air Base, Republic of Korea.

“We express our scattering abilities taking a small detachment from our main operational base and moving them here for a short time to perform unforeseen situations [operations]”US Air Force 1. Lieutenant Charles Burns, Director for ACE provisions for Operation 8. Combat Wing, said UA a statement.

8. The combat wing is managed by F-16C/D Falcon Fighter combat slats and is headquartered in South Korea. In case of conflict with China or North Korea, the unit would be at the forefront of surgery.

“Based on intelligence, we would know when the enemies would attack certain locations, so we could take over our forces and move them to different locations to continue to send fighter species and continue to disrupt enemies without being disturbed,” Burns added.

Put to the test

Air Force tested Ace concept with several platforms including F-22 RAPTOR STEALTH FIGHT PLANTS,, A-10 Thunderbolt II Airline Air Support Airplaneand F-35 Lightning II Stealth Fighting Airplanes.

“We achieve As on [one] Level, and additional stressful testing of the concept of the Generation Force Mission Element, ”an older master of the US Air Force SGT. Said Shelley Schofield, a senior Ace leader. “This brought us to a larger package of generation ability to miss the opportunity to repair the aircraft in more detail based on the things and the people we brought here with us.”

PARP is closely aligned with As and allows the aircraft to dive quickly and fill in the expeditional settings. In a practical environment, ACE and PARP concepts mean that aviation has the ability to dispel its forces and prevent another “pearl port”.

For example, in case of Conflict near PEER With China in the Indo-Pacific Father over Taiwan, the Chinese army would probably start hostilities with a long fire attack on US air and naval bases in the region. The goal would be to suppress the US military reaction and enable the Chinese amphibious forces to land and capture Taiwan. However, it would be much harder, if not impossible, for the Chinese army to target American and naval property if it were scattered before the first blow. In such a scenario, the value of Ace -ai PARP quickly becomes obvious.

About the author: Stavros Atlamazoglou

Stavros Atlamazoglou Is an experienced defense journalist specializing in special operations and the Veteran of the Helen Army (National Service with 575. He has a diploma from Johns Hopkins University and MA from Johns Hopkins School ‘School of Advanced International Studies (Sais). His work was presented in Business Insider,, Sandstoneand JUICE.

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