PAVING THE WAY FOR LIVE-VIRTUAL TRAINING
BRINGING YOU THE LATEST TALK FROM AROUND THE SQUADRONS
ONE OF THE biggest hindrances to readiness in the history of modern air power is a lack of satisfactory training. There are combat ranges all over the US with tremendous capacity to construct, host, and execute Large Force Employment (LFE) exercises, but a recurring theme is a lack of suitable replication of current threats — be they from the surface or in the air.
Aerial warfighters unanimously lament the lack of training resources they desperately need to in order to prepare for a near-peer or peer-level conflict with the likes of Russia or China.
Ode to a bygone era
‘Excuse me sir,’ said one young F-22 pilot in a moment of vexation, ‘but the 1990s called — and they want their threat laydown back.’
While dedicated electronic combat ranges are expansive and offer a tremendous environment for training, one of the biggest frustrations is the current condition of available threat emitters, and the fact the scenario really doesn’t change very much. Most of the systems represented are legacy, and don’t reflect the capabilities currently being fielded by potential adversaries.
One of the other limiting factors in mo…
