champi escribió:The US Air Force will field
200 Next-Generation Air Dominance aircraft and notionally 1,000 Collaborative Combat Aircraft, and will request funds in the fiscal 2024 budget to develop these new systems. The “notional”
1,000 CCA figure was derived from “an assumed two CCAs for 200 NGAD platforms, and an additional two for each of 300 F-35s,” Kendall said.
He cautioned that “this isn’t an inventory objective, but a planning assumption to use for analysis of things such as basic organizational structures, training and range requirements, and sustainment concepts.”
Exactly how many NGAD platforms the Air Force is planning to buy has been a closely-held secret, and even if it is “notional,” the 200 figure is revealing...
Kendall has previously said as many as
five CCAs could collaborate with each crewed fighter —performing missions in electronic warfare, suppression of enemy air defenses, air and ground protection, and communications— but he has also said the process of introducing them will be iterative....
Estaba claro. La estimación para planificar son 5 drones escudero por cada "NGAD", y 2 por cada F-35 de un conjunto de 300 F-35. Como llevo diciendo tiempo, la generalización de la dronería de combate no es tan lejana: en todo proyecto en marcha desde hace años, se contempla que haya muchos más aviones de combate no tripulados que tripulados. Que sí, que lógicamente será iterativo, gradual, etc., madurando... pero es revolucionario.