Air Warfare

Aerial warfare is the battlespace use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare. Aerial warfare includes bombers attacking enemy installations or a concentration of enemy troops or strategic targets; fighter aircraft battling for control of airspace; attack aircraft engaging in close air support against ground targets; naval aviation flying against sea and nearby land targets; gliders, helicopters and other aircraft to carry airborne forces such as paratroopers; aerial refueling tankers to extend operation time or range; and military transport aircraft to move cargo and personnel. Historically, military aircraft have included lighter-than-air balloons carrying artillery observers; lighter-than-air airships for …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 January 2022 English

Autonomous weapons systems seem to be on the path to becoming accepted technologies of warfare. The weaponization of artificial intelligence raises questions about whether human beings will maintain control of …

sleepless nights. Abbreviations AAW TAO anti-air warfare tactical action officer AI artificial intelligence


CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 17 June 2021 English

This work- shop’s most important contribution to the debate focusing on how to increase the diversity of militaries around the world consists in its central claim that the participation and …

Security Champion for the CAF. A graduate of Air Warfare College, holding a Master Certificate in Project


desLibris · 22 February 2021 English

While it will not meet the standard of a modern air warfare platform, defined by a larger missile-carrying missile-carrying capacity, the CSC’s enhanced air warfare capabilities mean a specialized air defence ship is not


CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 7 December 2020 English

PANEL 2 Capacity Building and Conflict Management Moderator: Théo McLauchlin (UMontréal) Theodore McLauchlin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Montreal and Director …

Peacekeeping, BGen Bourgon is a graduate of Air Warfare College, holds a Master Certificate in Project


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 11 June 2019 English

very word “correct” gets my Missing in action The second issue T back up, evoking the most of contention is the uptight, self-righteous and Excellent articles on the twice-mentioned use …

Monaghan point out in their 2018 book War, when air warfare began to focus the priorities of extractive industries


desLibris · 16 January 2019 English

Informed by a best-practice review of allied naval shipbuilding programs, particularly in the U. K., the goals of the NSPS/NSS are threefold: (1) to equip the RCN and CCG with …

amphibious assault helicopter carriers and air warfare destroyers. That such projects are being acquired Collins-class submarines and the Hobart-class air warfare destroyers (AWD). Arguably, the more influential 25, 28, 32-33, 36-37, 51. 39 Robert Macklin, Air Warfare Destroyer: The Game-Changer (Canberra: Australian


DDN: Dundurn Press · 6 October 2018 English

Pull up a bollard and get to know the colourful language of the Royal Canadian Navy. Do you ever get channel fever so bad only a great homeward bounders will …

rig- ging, and equipment of a warship. AAW Anti-Air Warfare. aback 1. The braking effect created when a


desLibris · 26 September 2018 English

The likelihood of military clashes in the Arctic is increasing daily, and the Arctic has become a potential flashpoint in international military security, the report concludes.40 Another newspaper article, originally …

then speculates about the nature of naval and air warfare in an entirely ice-free Arctic: Even if all


Wilson Center Canada · 17 September 2018 English

Key findings of interest to the policy and intelligence communities include the following: • The background of the top-finishers at the Staff College, those that will rise to the senior …

below: 1. 1987 The College Seminar was on Land-Air Warfare and consisted of the following panel of officers


desLibris · 16 July 2018 English

'This manual provides the keystone-level doctrine for command and control (C2) of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). While intended primarily for the operational level, it also describes fundamentals applicable …

to achieve assigned objectives. A century of air warfare has demonstrated that for air forces to be both


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