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Assessing Agile Combat Employment for the Pacific Air Forces: Estimating the Impacts of Distributed Maintenance Postures on Sortie Rate Potential
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mills, Patrick
- Language:
- English
- Other Title:
- Assessing Agile Combat Employment for the Pacific Air Forces
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2024
- Summary:
- China is investing in advanced aircraft, ballistic and cruise missiles, and hypersonic weapons capable of striking U.S. and allied operating bases in the Pacific. Since at least fiscal year 2014, Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) has been developing and refining a concept, now called Agile Combat Employment (ACE), to address its unique operational challenges, deter possible aggression, and ensure its ability prosecute a contested campaign. At its root, ACE requires deploying and employing aircraft (particularly fighters) in nontraditional ways (particularly in dispersed and clustered postures) to mitigate threats from precision cruise and ballistic missiles. Dispersal across bases offers protection from missile attacks, and many analyses have quantified the potential benefits of dispersal both within and outside the context of ACE. The authors of this report demonstrate a method for PACAF to estimate potential sortie rate degradation from dispersal across bases before bases are attacked.
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