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Swiss Air Force

Core competences

What Core Competences are necessary to fulfill these Tasks today and in Future?

 

Combat jets

The ability to co-operate (Inter-operability)

  • Contribution to the promotion of peace and to crisis management
  • Joint operation of equipment, command systems and structures, and coordinated operational procedures in co-operation with other Air Forces

 

The ability to grow and expand

  • Bringing in and training of members of the militia as required
  • Maintenance of a minimum know-how level (to be expanded if and when required)
  • Setting of priorities for armament procurement in accordance with threat assessment
  • Reduction of evaluation, procurement and equipment introduction processes

 

Situation Overview

  • Acquisition and selection of appropriate sensor equipment (e.g., radar)
  • Compilation of sensor data into a general airspace picture
  • Guaranteed availability of this information (up-to-date, in the form desired, wherever needed)

 

Operational Readiness

  • Carrying out of the Air Force's mission from the psychological, moral, technical, tactical and logistic point of view
  • Harmonization between peace-time and operational readiness organization after mobilization

 

Super-Puma flight simulator

Learning Air Force

  • Constant flexible adaptation to changes in the areas of finance, personnel, organization, procedures and operational doctrine
  • Mastering technologies and responding to trends in good time

 

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Last updated: 12.05.2010
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