"In a future war where battlefield systems are contested, pilots could find themselves flying and fighting without consistent communications with commanders. The Air Force just war-gamed what such a scenario would look like, forcing its pilots to adapt by generating sorties on their own rather than waiting around for orders. This month, the 23rd Wing from Moody Air Force in Georgia ran Exercise Mosaic Tiger 26-1, a series of flights based around the Air Force's Agile Combat Employment strategy."
"The US military's global communications and navigation are highly dependent on satellite transmissions - systems a powerful adversary could attempt to disrupt or physically damage. If the communications outage goes beyond 72 hours, the situation would look a lot different. Pilots would rely on pre-briefed timelines of events and the last information they have on what their commanderwould want. They'd be flying air operations"
Moody Air Force Base's 23rd Wing conducted Exercise Mosaic Tiger 26-1 to train Agile Combat Employment concepts, using A-10C Thunderbolt II and HC-130J Combat King II aircraft. Training focused on sustaining air operations when encrypted radios or message links to command and control are lost. Pilots would reference a published Air Tasking Order (ATO) to continue scheduled missions for up to 72 hours without new direction. Beyond 72 hours, aircrews would rely on pre-briefed timelines and the last available guidance to approximate commanders' intent while operating with limited communications and degraded navigation.
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