دانلود کتاب نیروی هوایی نیروی دریایی آمریکا – ساحل غربی 2010-2020

The United States Naval Aviation celebrated its century of flight in 2011. Within its 100 years of existence, the Navy took a major leap in development from first to fifth generation and pushed the envelope of aviation technology. From the Curtiss biplane performing its first arrested landing and take-off from a Navy vessel to today’s state-of-the-art fixed and rotary wing aircraft. Naval Aviation is a story of vision, innovation, and continuous improvements. The past decade has presented many struggles in an everchanging world, and the Navy command has managed to master all the challenges of keeping the service on top of the stage of naval air power. Over the last ten years, the Navy invested significant time and effort to standardize the fleet of both fixed and rotary wing aircraft within its operational inventory, while carefully introducing and implementing stealth technology within its capabilities. The US Navy undertook all required efforts with a strong vision to continue delivering combat readiness; this included integration of new aircraft types, development of subtypes (including integration of technological, state-of-theart systems in existing aircraft types). Furthermore, the Navy coped with the challenges of maintaining the existing fleet to combat readiness status, standardization programs, and several Service Life Extension Programs. This book describes the Naval Air Power developments on the West Coast between 2010 and 2020. These developments influenced all aspects within the service and included the challenges that were met and resolved, the developments taking place within this past decade, and the developments in Naval Air Station (NAS), Carrier Air Wing (CVW), and squadron rotations. The document written by the US Marine Corps, Naval Aviation Vision 2016−2025, defines two major fields of focus for the United States Naval Aviation departments going forward. The first is defined as the strategic imperative of expanding capabilities through technological advancement, in order to deliver integrated warfighting capabilities (defined as “the combined interaction of people, equipment and training to launch weapons or gather intelligence”). The second is defined as maintaining capacity. Capacity includes: (1) the ideas of aggregate capacity, which is the “total number of units manned, trained and equipped to meet steady-state presence and crisis-response requirements”; (2) operational capacity, which is the number and readiness of “aircraft within a squadron and the number of aircrews available to operate them” in order to succeed in combat. The latter refers more specifically to the Naval Aviation department, and the “Vision” document includes a roadmap on how to maintain the desired key performance indicator of 85 percent combat readiness for aviation assets. A special courtesy to the public affairs officers Theresa McKenrick, Melinda Larson, Lydia Bock, Zip Upham, Kristopher Haugh, and Vance Vasquez of the West Coast bases, enabling many visits, hosting interviews, and allowing the gathering of photographic material. Also, a special courtesy for LT Matthew “Abe” Gottschalk, public affairs officer of VFC-13, LT Glenn Diller, public affairs officer of VFA-97, LT Alex Bowman, public affairs officer at VFA-41, CDR Colin “Doris” Day, and CDR Jason “Chubbs” Fox of Airborne Command and Control and Logistics Wing for assisting in the composition of this book.