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Article: FOAS - UK Long Range Offensive Air Power for 2020 and Beyond
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- RUSI Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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The Future Offensive Air System (FOAS) programme is a discrete acquisition programme intended to fulfil the UK's future long range offensive air capability requirement from the end of the next decade out to 2050, and quite possibly beyond. A broad range of possible solutions has been examined during the programme's ongoing Concept Phase. However, intuitively, simultaneously meeting all of the implicit core system requirements of responsiveness, reach, sustainable weight of effort, ubiquity and versatility is most likely to be achieved affordably through the mediums of the air and air vehicles. Indeed, without 'solutioneering' the requirement, the most promising candidate systems identified ...