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The average age of a current USAF airframe is 27 years, and rising. Despite their capability, at present fifth generation aircraft comprise a fraction of the current combat air forces. The effect of these tools in total turns operators of these advanced aircraft into mission commanders, rather than having them focus on managing and operating subsystems (like in older third and fourth generation ‘legacy’ aircraft).

This helps to maximize lethality and survivability while enabling decision-making superiority by reducing the number of actions required by the pilot. The aircraft and its subsystem designs are also closely integrated, far more intricately than older aircraft. Fifth generation aircraft are also empowered by robust networks, linking individual aircraft to create a common, accurate, and highly integrated picture of the battle space for friendly forces. Resilient communications, navigation, and identification tools and techniques are also crucial aspects of fifth generation aircraft, designed to counter enemy attempts to jam, deny, or confuse these vital capabilities. Advanced on-board diagnostics help vital monitoring of the aircraft’s health, accurately reporting faults as they occur, increasing overall system performance and reliability. This is a present-day example of ‘man-machine teaming’. These aircraft also feature integrated avionics, which autonomously fuse and prioritize the aircraft’s multi-spectral sensors and off board data, providing an accurate real-time operations picture for the pilot, and the ability to download data for post-mission analysis. These include, primarily, multi-spectral low observable (LO) design features (such as radar, infrared sensors, and visual situational awareness tools), along with self-protection and radar jamming capabilities that delay or deny enemy systems the ability to detect, track, and engage the aircraft. There are many characteristics of fifth generation aircraft that separate them from older aircraft. Currently fielded fifth generation aircraft include the Air Force’s F-22A Raptor and the US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II, with the USAF F-35A targeted to achieve initial operational capability later this year. A fifth generation aircraft is capable of operating effectively in highly contested combat environments, defined by the presence of the most capable current air and ground threats, and those reasonably expected to be operational in the foreseeable future. Fifth Generation Aircraft, Definedįor the purposes of this paper, we must define what a ‘fifth generation’ aircraft means in the context of modern military operations. 649-670.This is an abridged version of an article published in the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Journal Ed. J., "Combat Maneuver Training Center (CMTC) High Dynamic Player Integration," Proceedings of the 4th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1991), Albuquerque, NM, September 1991, pp. Proceedings of the 4th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1991) Part of the next phase of CMTC development. Integration of high dynamic players will be Presents an overview of the CMTC instrumen-tation system and the study methodology that To appreciate the context of this GPS rangeĪpplication, a more complete explanation of Training as their fixed-wing counterparts.

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