Military of China, force comment.
Military of China, force comment.

Western countries are increasingly focusing on the advanced fighter jets to attack the building.

Air Force to land on the West to find the target, a small Air Force targeting non-traditional threats

reporter/Weidong Xu

since the last Libya war that Western countries are increasingly focusing on the advanced fighter jets to attack the building. According to the British “Flight International”, Reuters and other media, known originally to combat the “Typhoon” fighter on April 12 also go into battle, began to perform ground attack missions.

from the air to the “ground balance”

reported that in the code-named “by Pascal Lamy” in combat operations, the British air force one “Typhoon” aircraft to be deployed in the southern two Misurata Libyan army tanks threw two “Enhanced Paveway” laser-guided bombs with type 2. British Air Force Major General Phil Osborne said it was “Typhoon” fighter for the first time execution of combat missions. According to him, to give “Typhoon” fighter-ground attack capability has been ahead of schedule, but did not receive adequate training before the pilot, the military has not let the media know this. “Now the British Air Force pilots have been trained enough, capable, and the current air-to-ground combat missions.”

in accordance with the original design concept for Europe to create a “Typhoon” aircraft is mainly used with the former Soviet air force’s advanced fighter fight for air supremacy. “Typhoon” the whole weight of 11 tons, length 15.86 meters, wingspan 11.28 m, the body of a large number of carbon fiber composite and light alloy to reduce weight, and equipped with high-thrust engines and advanced air to air missiles, integrated air index higher. And this marks the implementation of ground attack missions, “Typhoon” fighter combat air from a single direction to “ground balance”, to keep up with the U.S. F-15 “Strike Eagle”, French “Rafale” F3 fighter jets and other Western fellow creatures.

task under real needs adjustment

After the Cold War, NATO air power loss of the former Soviet air force this powerful opponent, the U.S. and European military power increase the combat system performance of urgency is no longer empty. In the 21st century, NATO air power has intervened in the war in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and the ongoing internal conflict. However, regardless of Saddam’s regime or the Taliban, or under the control of Libya, Gaddafi government forces, are not decent air force, which led to the U.S. and Europe advanced fighters without air to play, only “part-time” implementation of the land attack missions, which directly promote F-15, “Typhoon” air superiority fighter more advanced fighter-bombers to the direction of development.

visible, Western powers to strengthen the Air Force advanced fighter air-to-ground attack capability, is based on the changing realities of combat objects considerations – not the aerial targets, only to find the ground.

In fact, the value of fighter-ground attack capability is not only the Western Force powers, some Third World countries to buy equipment in the same time have similar requirements. For example, some South American countries in the purchase of Chinese-made K-8 trainer/fighter, made it clear that to be used for anti-narcotics task, which is obviously a fancy to middle and low planes of “functions on the ground.”

Some analysts said the current military power in combat broke out between the probability is very small, advanced aircraft in the air with missiles shooting at the scene basically exists only in Hollywood movies, so the Western powers want the equipment fighter can act as a “generalist”; At the same time, some developing countries want the ground attack fighter with the ability to solve some non-traditional security issues. These are determined fighter needs to adjust based on the actual task model will become a popular trend.