The future air combat will have new features such as"intelligence,unmanned,autonomy,distribution,and collaboration".Under the support of the system and network,the combination of long-term hovering and firepower strikes will be flexible,presenting a trend of deep integration of aircraft and missiles.The existing strike chain and firepower utilization will be significantly revolutionized.This study first reviewed the development overview of aircraft-missile integration technology in the United States,proposed the concept of aircraft-missile integration firepower reconstruction,and then described the new utilization methods of aircraft-missile integration in various stages of OODA(Observe,Orient,Decide and Act)through typical scenarios involving long-range denial,medium-range air combat,active aircraft protection and aircraft-missile integration air patrol.Finally,several prospects for the development of aircraft-missile integration were presented.
future air combataircraft-missile integrationOODAfirepower utilization