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New Advances in Mission Planning and Rehearsal Systems

This Lecture Series aims to present a picture of the
fundamental concepts which determine the
characteristicsof modem Mission Flaming Systems and
provide some illustrative examples of such systems.
Much of the material which will be presented has been
derived from the work carried out by an AGARD
Working Group on Mission Flaming which has been
published in the form of two AGARD Advisory Reports
(Refs 1 and 2).
Mission Flaming is an essential pre-requisite to the
successful execution of any military aircraft mission. It
may be carried out in great detail in advance of the
mission and include precise information about how a
specific target is to be attacked, or it may be that only
the outline parameters can be defined before the start of
the mission because some of the details depend on
information obtained during the course of the mission
itself. In the case of re-active types of mission such as
combat air patrols the latter is invariably the case, and
refining of plans must be carried out during the mission.
Thus planning can include both pre-flight and in-flight
elements.
The execution of the mission planning task is
profoundly affected by the extent to which the
operations being planned had been forseen and pre-
rehearsed. In the memoirs of Lord Canington (Ref.3),
he states that of the thirty occasions during a period of
25 years in which British forces had been engaged, only
two had been forseen. Moreover, in recent years
profound changes have taken place in the NATO
military posture so that there appears much less
probability of full-scale attack into Westem Europe and,
by comparison, limited conflicts in other regional areas
are assuming much greater importance.
In terms of the requirements for mission planning
systems, these limited regional conflicts may differ from
a major European conflict in the following ways:
In regional areas the databases which are at first
available may be inadequate and need rapid upgrade.
The amount of training and rehearsal done in these
regional areas may be zero or minimal
Missions in these areas may have to be of new,
untested, types and may need to evolve during the
conflict.