www.militaar.net

Download eBook for Free

Plus, the Navy will get cash to accelerate its long-awaited Next-Generation Jammer, a new electronic noisemaker packed into an under-wing pod. The Navy’s new EA-18G Growler jamming planes will use the Next-Generation Jammer to fill enemy radar screens with random radar returns, hopefully disguising the movements of real airplanes as they sneak in to attack. To date, the Growler (pictured) has borrowed old ALQ-99 jammer pods from the EA-6B Prowler it is replacing. Both the ALQ-99 and the Prowler are more than 30 years old.

A new jamming pod might sound like an obscure initiative. It’s not. Recall that, two years ago, U.S. regional commanders urged Gates to cancel the F-22 Raptor fighter so they could afford to buy more Growlers. Turns out, jamming enemy radars is really, really important to U.S. war plans.

Ten NATO and non-NATO nations will participate in the life firing exercise Loyal Arrow 09 in Sweden from 8 to 18 June 2009. Some 50 fast jets, which will be based at Norrbotten Wing, will participate in the exercise.

The aim of the exercise is to train units and selected parts of the NATO Response Force Joint Force Air Component Headquarters in the coordination and conduct of air operations.

Additionally, planes from NATO’s Airborne Warning and Control System, better known as AWACS, as well as other transport aircraft and helicopters, will participate in the exercise. Some of the participating units will be flying in from bases in Norway and Finland.

Based on a fictions scenario
Command and control of the exercise will be executed by the Joint Force Air Component (JFAC) HQ from CC-Air Ramstein. Exercise Director will be Brigadier General Gianni Baron, Deputy Chief of Staff Operations CC-Air Ramstein.
Brigadier General Johan Svensson, Deputy Commander of the SWE Air Component Command, will be the exercise Co-Director.

The exercise is based upon a fictions scenario. Within this scenario, elements of the NATO Response Force (NRF), acting under a mandate by the United Nations Security Council, will be deployed to a theatre of operations.

Overall the exercise will involve about 800-900 participants and 50 jets from Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey[4], the United States and NATO’s airborne early warning component. Planes from NATO’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), as well as other helicopters and transport aircraft, will participate in the exercise. The Royal Navy sends HMS Illustrious, an Invincible-class light aircraft carrier, with 1,000 soldiers on-board.

Scottish software expertise key element in NATO air crew training.A Scottish-developed IT system will be critical to the success of a major NATO exercise taking place in Sweden in June 2009. IT company Computer Application Services (CAS), based at Heriot-Watt Research Park, has secured an order from Sweden to develop a system which will provide a realistic Electronic Warfare training environment for NATO aircrew at the Vidsel range in the far north of the country.

Electronic Warfare (EW) ranges allow aircrew to practice the tactics necessary to defeat ground-based anti-aircraft systems. CAS’ contract with the Swedish Defence Administration (FMV) is to develop a system called VIEWS in time for NATO exercise Loyal Arrow this summer.

About 800-900 troops from Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and the United States as well as NATO’s airborne early warning component will participate. Units will deploy to the exercise area in northern Sweden on 5 and 6 June 2009 to bed-down and conduct familiarization flights in preparation of the exercise. From 8 to 16 June 2009 the exercise will unfold with two to three flying windows each day, some late flying will take place between 22.00 hrs and midnight. Redeployment of units will then take place on 17 and 18 June 2009.

The LAW 09 exercise scenario will allow CC-Air HQ Ramstein, the NRF 13/14 JFAC HQ, to establish and maintain command and control of assigned forces and to exercise internal Standing Operating Procedures and information management processes. The participating units will exercise deployment, reception and redeployment procedures into and out of a Deployment Operating Base (DOB).

LAW 09 is held with the kind permission and full cooperation of the Swedish government. Sweden and Finland participate in the exercise as member countries of the Partnership for Peace programme in order to familiarize with NATO and NRF procedures and missions.

But don’t expect the Pentagon to make any dramatic changes to the U.S.’s 60-year old posture in Europe. Defense Secretary Robert Gates thinks it’s too large and too brass-heavy, but Danger Room is hearing that only one Army brigade might actually get shipped back home.

The new jammer, and its initial host airplane, the EA-18G Growler (pictured), have quickly become top Pentagon priorities. U.S. regional commanders opted in 2009 to buy more Growlers rather than continue production of the F-22 stealth dogfighter. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced this month that he would accelerate the NGJ’s current five-year-or-so development plan, using cash saved from shutting down redundant command staffs.

Besides radar-jamming, the NGJ should allow the Navy to disable remotely detonated, improvised explosive devices — something the EA-6B already does — as well as insert viruses into command networks, a tactic Israel allegedly first used in combat during its 2007 air attacks on a suspected Syrian nuke site.

Hints that air-launched cyberattacks could shut down industrial (and nuclear) operations could explain why the Air Force has been flying stealthy RQ-170 drones near Iran. The NGJ could expand on that apparent capability.

Never mind the F-22 and its admittedly incredible dogfighting skills, or the purported versatility of the newer F-35 in its fighter-bomber role. With the EA-18G and other planes carrying the Next Generation Jammer, the U.S. military will have a weapon capable of doing more than just firing missiles and dropping bombs. Anything that works in the electromagnetic spectrum — and these days, that’s almost everything — will be fair game.

“As was announced by our two presidents in December, we plan to establish a new permanent US air detachment in Poland, build missile defences in Poland, and as agreed at the NATO summit, develop a contingency plan in the region." Hilary Clinton told journalists.

The base will be served by a rotating US squadron of F-16s.

Как заявили газете в МИД России, высказывания Клинтон всерьез обеспокоили Москву. "Планы по ПРО не новы, мы о них знаем и рассчитываем договориться в рамках нашего проекта ЕвроПРО. А вот идея относительно авиабазы требует дополнительных разъяснений", - отметил источник "Коммерсанта".

Poland Hopes Obama Visit Will Bring F-16 Base Deal
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
9 May 2011

The United States will announce the transfer of an F-16 base from Aviano in Italy to the Lask air field in central Poland during the Obama visit, Poland's leading Gazeta Wyborcza daily reported May 9, quoting an unnamed Polish diplomatic source.

A U.S. official familiar with the negotiations May 9 in Warsaw refused to confirm or deny the information, but indicated that an agreement announced by the Polish and U.S. presidents in Washington in December was "on track".

ONCE they lobbied hard to join NATO. After Russia’s war with Georgia, they begged for coherent plans to defend them. But now the alliance’s eastern members are finding it hard to keep defence spending anywhere near 2% of GDP, the official NATO target they agreed to meet. Poland does best.

And why should outsiders bother to protect countries that won’t take their own defence seriously?

Lemet kirjutas:Eks see jah lohutab, et naabritel meist veel sandim seis on Millal neid suuremas mahus reservkogunemisi toimetama hakatigi? Aasta tagasi? Poolteist?? Enne seda- mäletad ju küll- milleks meile tankid, meie NATO liitlastel on neid lademes. Jne. Rõhutatud osa on lihtsalt tavalise lääne inimese mõttetöö kõva häälega välja öelduna.