![]() ![]() VeraLinn Jamieson-retiring soon after being the Air Force’s three-star deputy chief of staff for ISR and cyber effects operations-co-authored a Mitchell Institute Forum paper, “An ISR Perspective on Fusion Warfare,” that forecast an array of anti-access and area-denial (A2/AD) threats proliferating around the world by 2030 that threaten American airpower’s historic reach and dominance. Senior Air Force and Department of Defense officials have been warning about this threat for some time. Deptula said subsonic, nonstealth aircraft such as the RQ-4 “were not designed to operate in areas covered by advanced SAM or air-to-air threats.” Advanced SAM threats have proliferated around the world, he said, even to second-rate military powers like Iran. Mitchell Institute Dean and retired Air Force Lt. The relative ease with which Iran shot down the US ISR asset raised concerns among many defense analysts and observers. ![]()
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