From SEAD to JOINT-SEAD
From SEAD to JOINT-SEAD

Summary/Abstract: The new approach to suppression of enemy air defences missions surpassesits traditional limits and opens new horizons, formalising new and innovativeways to intelligently combine military capabilities, be they land, sea, air orspace based, kinetic or non-kinetic, lethal or non-lethal, manned or unmanned,providing as much freedom of manoeuvre as possible for own forces in theentire spectrum of operational domains (land, air, sea, space, electromagneticand information).The present study is intended to explain how or, more importantly, whythe suppression of enemy air defences mission has evolved throughout time,permanently reassessing its effectiveness and seeking to strike the perfectbalance between implicit expenses and military results. Since the directeffects of this mission are very difficult to observe and quantify, one of themost challenging tasks has been to assess it before deciding improvementstrategies. Once this task has been acknowledged, theoreticians, practitionersand technicians involved in the planning and execution of enemy air defencesuppression missions have come to the same conclusion: advanced technologyhas to be combined with intelligent innovation and ideas to engage futureenemies while ensuring the survival of own forces and contributing directly tomeeting the military objectives.

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