{"id":3490,"date":"2017-07-12T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2023-08-06T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T05:54:58","slug":"fifth-generation-air-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/fifth-generation-air-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth generation air warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n<p>Fifth-generation air warfare is a beguiling concept. It offers the promise of making the use of air power in future wars significantly more effective and efficient. And this is not some inward-looking perspective. Chinese and Russian military thinkers also consider fifth-generation ideas offer real promise.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, fifth-generation air warfare concepts push the boundaries of current technology. This is a remarkably complicated way to make war with real engineering challenges both in hardware and software. Moreover this incredibly intricate way of war is meant to function to a high efficiency within an environment where adversaries<br \/>\nare trying very hard to defeat it. It is understandable that some may have doubts about the compatibility of fifth-generation air warfare with war\u2014a violent act waged in a chaotic environment where friction, ambiguity and uncertainty are endemic.<\/p>\n<p>Some may also ask about the preceding generations of warfare that makes this the fifth. Many authors have attempted to simplify humanity\u2019s long history of making war down into well-defined epochs but none of these constructs are widely accepted. Furthermore, it is true that the term \u2018fifth-generation air warfare\u2019 originated as an aerospace company marketing slogan. This all might suggest that \u2018fifth-generation air warfare\u2019 is a somewhat vacuous term. Taking this position though would be a grave error of judgment.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a great deal to the concept of fifth-generation air warfare. The term has come to encompass and combine several important ideas, in particular: network-centric thinking, the combat cloud operational construct, multi-domain battle and fusion warfare. Fifth-generation air warfare is now a multifaceted concept with real underpinnings.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/airpower.airforce.gov.au\/Publications\/Details\/674\/Fifth-Generation-Air-Warfare.aspx\">&#8220;Fifth generation air warfare&#8221;<\/a> paper published at\u00a0the\u00a0Air Power Development Centre, Royal Australian Airforce written by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Peter Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON\u00a0| Fifth-generation air warfare is a beguiling concept. 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