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Live Fire Testing of the F-22 (1995) / Chapter Skim
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1 INTRODUCTION
Pages 11-15

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... The F-22 has been designed to acquire the enemy target arid shoot first before being acquired. The design philosophy has also emphasized that, if acquired, the F-22 would have ~ A member of the committee who is very familiar with Air Force operations has pointed out that a discrepancy appears to exist between various definitions of the term "offensive counter air." The definition in the Basic Aerospace Doctrine of the United States Air Force (Air Force Manual 1-1)
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... . 3 An acceptable definition of survivability, which was used in the previous National Research Council report Vulnerability Assessment of Aircraft (NRC, 1993)
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... Major modifications resulting from arty new mission would require the Air Force to reassess vulnerability and implementation of the law on live fire testing. VULNERABILITY TESTING OF AIRCRAFT VERSUS GROUND VEHICLES The law governing live fire testing had its origin in ground vehicle vulnerability.
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... Appendix D reproduces pertinent material from the National Research Council's ~ 993 report Vulnerability Assessment of Aircraft.
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... Presentation to the Committee on the Study of Live Fire Survivability Testing of the F-22 Aircraft, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., December 21. TAP (Tactical Air Force)
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Key Terms

  • fire testing
  • ground vehicles
  • counter air
  • offensive counter
  • vulnerability assessment

  • survivability testing
  • air combat
  • fire survivability
  • operational requirements
  • combat command

  • destroy threat
  • hostile airspace
  • vulnerability reduction
  • enemy aircraft
  • fire test

  • ground vehicle
  • report vulnerability
  • requirements document
  • reproduces pertinent
  • structural weight

  • including steal
  • fuel tanks
  • finely tuned
  • arid armor
  • nonflammable fluids

  • surface materials
  • evaluation program
  • expensive live
  • advanced technologies
  • tactical air


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