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E-8 Joint STARS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) is a United States Air Force airborne battle management and command and control (C2) platform that conducts ground surveillance to develop an understanding of the enemy situation and to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces. The E-8C Joint STARS routinely supports various taskings of the Combined Force Command Korea during the North Korean winter exercise cycle and for the United Nations enforcing resolutions on Iraq. Joint STARS developmental aircraft were also called to support the NATO peacekeeping mission, Operation Joint Endeavor, in December 1995. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/E-8_Joint_STARS   (1585 words)

Joint STARS in Bosnia: Too Much Data, Too Little Intel? The use of Joint STARS in conventional warfare may have a chilling effect on enemy commanders because their desire to achieve mass and mobility will be counterpoised by the certainty that such formations will be immediately detected in all conditions of light and weather. Joint STARS was justifiably lauded as one of the star performers during Operation DESERT STORM. In essence, the Joint STARS downlink is a form of broadcast intelligence in that the vast quantity of data continuously provided in the MTI mode overwhelms any one element's ability to digest it all. www.fas.org /irp/agency/army/tradoc/usaic/mipb/1996-4/agee.htm   (3738 words)

E-10 MC2A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While the Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint STARS aircraft are a recent development they will be the last such type to be based on the 707. The Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A is a military aircraft currently under development as replacement for the Boeing 707 based E-3 Sentry, E-8 Joint STARS, and EC-135 aircraft in US service. In 2003, Boeing was awarded a $126 million contract for the development of the aircraft. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/E-10_MC2A   (361 words)

The Epic Little Battle of Khafji Joint STARS caught the preparations for and launching of the attack in time to spoil some of the surprise effect. Joint STARS reports of Iraqi movement on the border and behind the lines flowed into the Tactical Air Control Center that night at about 10 p.m. Operation Desert Storm had been under way for 12 days, and the Joint STARS crew members were accustomed to dividing time along a wide arc, ranging from Iraqi forces massed on the Kuwait­Saudi border area near the coast to suspected Scud sites far to the northwest. www.afa.org /magazine/Feb1998/0298epic_print.html   (3450 words)

Seeking a Triple Threat Sensor Air Combat Command initially pursued the project as a Joint STARS update, which called for a substantial upgrade to the E-8's main radar. The RC-135 Rivet Joint is probably in the best shape, structurally, of all the big ISR platforms, one reason its mission would be the last to be migrated to the MC2A. If so, Raytheon would lead this successor to the Rivet Joint, but Smart cautioned that Spiral 3 "is not nearly as clear and it's not nearly as defined" as Spiral 1 and 2. www.afa.org /magazine/nov2002/1102threat.asp   (2958 words)

Pakistan News PakTribune.Com The decision to send the RC-135 and E-8 Joint STARS to the Pakistan-Afghan border region hasn't been made yet, but sources said the capabilities of both aircraft would be crucial to the strategy of tracking down Osama bin Laden in the area. E-8 Joint Stars, the long-range, aerial surveillance aircraft can locate, classify and track ground targets in any type of weather and it also can receive a video feed from a Predator drone and then mark targets for attack, it said. Besides Unmanned Predator drones, U-2 spy plane, Satellite communication, Unattended ground sensors (UGS), Satellite communication, Border search, the couple of E-8 Joint Stars and RC-135 Rivet Joint would supplement the ground forces to trap down the OBL and his top aides who, according to US reports were hiding in Pakistan tribal belt. www.paktribune.com /news/index.php?id=78731   (464 words)

DB2000 Encyclopedia - Aircraft Entries - Boeing 707 The 707 is the basis for the E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft, the Israeli Phalcon AEW aircraft, the E-8 Joint STARS ground surveillance system and the US Navy's E-6 Mercury submarine communications and airborne command post. www.harpoonhq.com /encyclopedia/HTML_Files/aircraft_files/boeing_707.htm   (178 words)

Speech by Gen Hawley 970130 Joint STARS completed its operational test and evaluation in the midst of a real-world deployment to Bosnia in support of the Dayton Peace Accords. General Shaud: The JSF [Joint Strike Fighter] is on track as the F-16 replacement; however, some are saying that the F-22, JSF, and F/A-18 E/F can't be supported in future budget environments. It was truly a joint effort, with about 350 airmen, soldiers and contractor personnel accomplishing the mission. www2.acc.af.mil /library/speeches/cc/970130.html   (4523 words)

FLUG REVUE January 1997: ASTOR comtpetition under way Just how important aircraft with powerful side-looking radars are in crisis and war scenarios was impressively demonstrated by the E-8 Joint STARS of the US forces during the Gulf War and in Bosnia. Joint STARS is the only system that already has operational experience. Of course, several European companies under the lead of Dasa would be involved in the Joint STARS for NATO. www.flug-revue.rotor.com /frheft/FRH9701/FR9701a.htm   (698 words)

Memorandum : No. 272-M : 12/12/95:U.S. Air Force/Army JointSurveillance a TwoBoeing E-8 Joint Stars aircraft and at least ten associated ground stationmodules from Fort Bragg, N.C. and Fort Hood, Texas, are being deployed toassist in monitoring personnel and troop movements during the transitionbetween the UNPROFOR monitoring mission and the transition to IFOR. After a short preparation period, theJoint Stars aircraft are expected to begin operations shortly afterChristmas. The aircraft are manned with a joint air force and army missioncrew. www.defenselink.mil /news/Dec1995/m121295_m272-95.html   (199 words)

[3.0] The E-8 Joint-STARS In addition, the two E-8A Joint-STARS prototypes were fitted with a small fairing on the belly just behind the wings and in front of the little SCDL antenna. Joint-STARS is also fitted with two "Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS)" datalinks, one of which is used to relay targeting and other data to strike aircraft, the second of which is dedicated to communications with an "Airborne Warning And Control Systems (AWACS)" aircraft, presumably an E-3 Sentry, cooperating with Joint-STARS to control the battle. A simplified "man-portable" Joint-STARS terminal, the "Joint Services Work Station (JSWS)" is also in use with the USAF and the US Navy. www.faqs.org /docs/air/avbtsv3.html   (2770 words)

Mercury delivers hardware worth $6 million for Joint STARS aircraft The Air Force's E-8 Joint STARS aircraft is able to identify and track slow moving or stationary targets at sea, on the ground, or hugging the terrain in slow flight. These orders, totaling $6 million, (5.8 million euro) are part of the Joint STARS Computer Replacement Programme. The 13 Joint STARS aircraft are scheduled for upgrades by the end of 2010. www.hoise.com /primeur/99/articles/weekly/SW-PR-04-99-40.html   (348 words)

Robins AFB Warner Robins, GA Robins Air Force Base is home of Georgia Air National Guard 116th Bomb Wing, flying the B-1B bomber, and is the main US operating base for the E-8 Joint STARS. Joint STARS construction began in December 1992 and continued through fiscal year 2000. Nearly everyone in the town of Warner Robins either works on the base or is related to somebody who works there, which promotes warm relations with local city folks who rely on Robins AFB for a good part of their livelihood. www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/robins.htm   (4459 words)

E-8 Joint-STARS [JSTARS] Delivery of the 17th E-8C Joint STARS to the U.S. Air Force is scheduled for March 2005. As of early 2003 the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC)-validated requirement for Joint STARS was 19 operational aircraft. The 24-foot Joint STARS radar and the computer systems are installed at the sector's AGS&BM Systems facility in Melbourne. www.globalsecurity.org /intell/systems/jstars-prod.htm   (970 words)

New Radar Would Meld AWACS, J-STARS Roles While the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been preaching that the military must keep improving ground and air surveillance, the Air Force and Congress have been slashing two high-profile programs that would do just that. "Joint Vision 2020," the Joint Chiefs' plan for meeting next-generation conflicts, rests on precision engagement, the improved use of information and superior knowledge offered by technical innovation. The other is the Discoverer II satellite constellation that could place in space the sensors to track moving ground targets. www.aeronautics.ru /nws002/awst046.htm   (1134 words)

Cole Refloated The exercise was scheduled by the Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, and Commander in Chief U.S. Joint Forces Command, Gen. William F. Kernan, and was conducted by the Commander, Striking Fleet Atlantic and U.S. 2nd Fleet commander, Vice Adm. Michael G. Mullen. The Joint Task Force Exercise, usually conducted every five months, was designed to prepare U.S. joint forces for future forward-deployed operations. For many of the participants, the sea-based training was both a new experience and a valuable joint training opportunity. www.multied.com /navy/features/JTFEX.html   (713 words)

ESC Feature Story - Joint STARS: Opening the door to the future Conceived in the early 1980s, Joint STARS was designed to counter the threat of Soviet armies moving into West Germany. While it is highly unlikely that Joint STARS will ever be used for daily traffic reports, future peace-time uses of the system might be to assist in a crisis caused by nature. Even as Joint STARS brings new capabilities to Air Combat Command and Army field commanders, the program office is looking at ways to make the system better. www.hanscom.af.mil /Esc-PA/features/jstars.htm   (1946 words)

d03300.txt The Joint Strike Fighter, for example, is using a concept called "mission reliability" instead of MC and FMC goals. For example, a new measure of aircraft availability is being developed for the new Joint Strike Fighter, and MC and FMC goals are not being used. [8] FMC goals appear to be more difficult to meet because aircraft must be capable of performing more missions to meet them than MC goals. www.gao.gov /atext/d03300.txt   (13322 words)

Joint STARS The Warfighter's Window to the Battlefield Joint STARS consists of the Air Force-owned E-8 aircraft, a modified Boeing 707 manned by an Air Force and Army aircrew, and what we like to call the "business end of the system," the Ground Station Module (GSM), operated by the Army. Joint STARS is an Army-Air Force system designed to provide near-real-time surveillance intelligence, targeting, and battle management to the land component commander. While the 4500th Joint STARS Squadron (Provisional) was providing near-real-time intelligence to the IFOR, the 93d Air Control Wing activated at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, on 29 January 1996. www.fas.org /irp/agency/army/mipb/1996-3/peterson.htm   (1553 words)

KC-135 Stratotanker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The EC-135 is slated to be replaced (along with the E-3 Sentry and the E-8 Joint STARS) by the E-10 MC2A, also based upon the 767 airframe. RC-135 Rivet Joints are used for special reconnaissance and Air Force Material Command's NKC-135A's are flown in test programs. The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an aerial refueling tanker aircraft, first manufactured in 1956 and expected to remain in service into the 2020s It is a derivative of the Boeing 707 jetliner. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/KC-135   (824 words)

Worldandnation: Taliban sees U.S. weapons of past, present and future With the Taliban's air defenses largely disabled and winter weather approaching, the Pentagon also is sending into action the E-8 Joint STARS, a modified Boeing 707 jet with radar that can find and track vehicles on the ground at a distance of more than 124 miles, in any weather. In Afghanistan, a war that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says is being fought unlike any other, the vehicles to be tracked by Joint STARS include sport utility vehicles and pickups used by the Taliban. A Pentagon spokesman, Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem, emphasized that Joint STARS can track vehicles in all weather. www.sptimes.com /News/110501/Worldandnation/Taliban_sees_US_weapo.shtml   (651 words)

Airliners.net Military: E-8 Joint Stars At DM Airliners.net Military: E-8 Joint Stars At DM 726 users checked-in.You are not checked-in. Hey kid, I am still waiting for the answers to the 8 basic AF ops, C2, and combat sortie questions I sent you- and you still haven't answered- you sent back other stuff but ignored basic questions. You then came back that 8 wacker pilots have gone to the BUFF, boomerang, and the dragon lady in the past 2 years and said it's "amazing" if they're such lousy pilots. www.airliners.net /discussions/military/read.main/27630   (4656 words)

Tier drones -- Summary Pentagon's joint service UAV, the General Atomics 'Predator', has a 44 hours endurance at up to 25,000 feet with a 450 lb. Performance: loiter 8 hours over a target area at 500 nm (nautical miles) range, at an altitude of 45,000 feet, and reach 130 KEAS (Knots Equivalent AirSpeed) / 300 KTAS (Knots True AirSpeed) cruise speed (with 1,000 lb payload). The aircraft is painted black on the underside, to make it difficult to spot visually at altitude, and white on top, to protect the composite resins from sunlight. www.ais.org /~schnars/aero/tier.htm   (2463 words)

Code One Magazine Third Quarter 2004: Northern Lightning '04 Six Air National Guard F-16 units, ANG and Air Force Reserve Command A-10 units, command and control operators flying in E-3 AWACS and E-8 Joint STARS aircraft, a B-52 bomber unit, Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter units, and ANG KC-135 tanker units participated in realistic warfare scenarios in the exercise dubbed Northern Lightning '04. Instead of a Joint STARS aircraft tracking a simulated convoy or telling an F-16 pilot to visualize a convoy, the Army runs a heavy truck convoy down a dirt road on a hostile part of the range. Another major objective of the exercise was to practice time-sensitive targeting, a relatively new joint force tactic. www.codeonemagazine.com /archives/2004/articles/aug_04/lightning   (1377 words)

Boeing 767 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia E-10 MC2A - Replacement for the Boeing 707-based E-3 Sentry AWACS, the E-8 Joint STARS aircraft, and EC-135 ELINT aircraft. This is an all-new system, with a powerful Active Electronically Scanned Array and not based upon the Japanese AWACS aircraft. The KC-767 has lost out to the Airbus A330 in two recent contests, for the RAF and Royal Australian Air Force. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boeing_767   (964 words)

Subject Bibliography: GENERAL MILITARY HISTORY (059) Presents the events of May 10 to June 13, 1991, when the Joint Task Force Sea Angel, one of the largest military disaster relief forces ever assembled, was sent to the aid of the people of Bangladesh in the wake of the destruction of the tropical cyclone Marian. The mission was assigned by President Ronald Reagan to punish Libyan President Qaddafi for his involvement in the death of American citizens and to dissuade him from further support of international terrorism. Traces the usage of- and meaning given to- the terms "roles and missions" relating to the armed forces and particularly to the United States Air Force, from 1907 to the present. bookstore.gpo.gov /sb/sb-059.html   (3019 words)

Member Services This diverse military complex is also host to Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command, the E-8 Joint STARS aircraft of the 116th Air Control Wing (ACW), the KC-135 Stratotankers of the 19th Air Refueling Group, and the 5th Combat Communications Group. The 116 ACW boast a one-of-kind distinction: it recently became the Air Force's first and only "blended wing" when the 116th Bomb Wing (Georgia Air national Guard) transferred its B-1 Lancers and combined with the former 93rd Air Control Wing to fly the E-8 Joint STARS aircraft. Robins is home to a number of major units and is anchored by the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (WR-ALC), one of only three in the Air Force. www.loanational.org /chaptersupport/middle_georgia_crosstalk.asp   (688 words)

portland imc - 2004.05.03 - MIND BLOWING ANALYSIS OF THE IRAQ WAR AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM E-3 AWACS distant early warning (DEW) airplanes, E-8 Joint STARS DEWandTD planes, and various unmanned aerial vehicles conducted continuous survey of the land and the air. According to the guidelines issued by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, only servicemen "physically injured" by an enemy attack and in accidents are included in the "wounded" category. In these circumstances the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were forced by the President's Administration to take certain measures to conceal the real level of casualties. portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/05/287455.shtml   (6305 words)

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