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A replica Spitfire is lowered onto a plinth outside the RAAF Museum last year. The replica is painted in the markings of No 79 Squadron, one of the constituent units of the RAAF’s First Tactical Air Force. raaf museum
Structuring air power
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Combat power through organisation, Part I
Recent ‘On Target’ columns in Australian Aviation have focused on the aeroplane and its evolution from airborne platform to airborne weapons system, an evolution which has seen lessening incremental gains in platform performance but huge leaps in weapons system capability.
Unsurprisingly, these advances in the combat capability of airborne platforms have become the focus of much interest, and often debate. But there is much more to air combat power than just airborne platforms and systems, with even the seemingly mundane subject of organisation becoming a discriminating combat factor between air forces.
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