Video Above: Poland’s Incoming F-35 Fighter Jets Enhance Its Firepower Against Russian Forces
By Kris Osborn – Warrior Maven
(Washington, D.C.) Should the U.S. suddenly find itself thrust into a massive, full-scale war with Russia across the European continent, Pentagon leaders would likely seek to immediately leverage NATO’s full arsenal of capabilities.
For instance, a Polish F-35 might come across time sensitive targets such as Russian ships in the Baltic Sea, and instantly send coordinates to a U.S. Navy destroyer operating within range to fire an anti-ship missile. Perhaps that same Polish F-35 is flying with Danish and Norweigian F-35s while controlling forward operating drones from the cockpit, one of which discovers Russian air defenses near the Ukranian border? Perhaps the allied F-35s, connected by a common data link, are able to quickly send targeting data to U.S. Army ground units armed with Long Range Precision Fires? This is precisely the kind of warfare scenario now being envisioned and pursued by the Pentagon and its NATO allies
This kind of combat operation would need to leverage the full benefits of new networking, AI -enabled and computer automation technologies to ensure dispersed, yet heavily armed allied informational connectivity to identify targets, fire long-range weapons and share time sensitive data under high-threat conditions.
This challenge, which one could say seeks to extend the Pentagon’s multi-service Joint All Domain Command and Control data connectivity program across international boundaries to incorporate NATO allies, is referred to by participants as Mission Partner Environments, a term referring to what could be identified as a defining tactical aim of modern, information-driven warfare.
“What we’re aiming to address is the challenges of data fusion, in synchronization across enclaves. So we’re looking at the consolidation of redundant mission partner applications and networks, and integrating strategic and tactical systems,” Brig. Gen. Jacqueline Brown, Director, Command, Control, Communications and Cyber, U.S. INDOPACOM, told an audience during a webinar called “Securing Mission Partner Environments Over Untrusted Networks and Infrastructure.
