Joint warfare is a military doctrine that places priority on the integration of the various branches of a state's armed forces into one unified command . Joint warfare is in essence a form of combined arms warfare on a larger, national scale, in which complementary forces from a state's army , navy , air , coastal , space , and special forces are meant to work together in joint operations , rather than planning and executing military operations separately.
7-627: United Kingdom Space Command ( UKSC ) is a joint command of the British Armed Forces organised under the Royal Air Force , and staffed by personnel from the Royal Navy , British Army , Royal Air Force and the Civil Service . The UKSC has three functions: space operations, space workforce generation, and space capability. UK Space Command was established on 1 April 2021, and from May 2024
14-614: Is under the command of Major General Paul Tedman. The new command has "responsibility for not just operations, but also generating, training and growing the force, and also owning the money and putting all the programmatic rigour into delivering new ... capabilities." UKSC headquarters is at RAF High Wycombe co-located with Air Command. When fully operationally capable, UK Space Command will "provide command and control of all of Defence’s space capabilities, including [the] UK Space Operations Centre, Skynet (satellite) communications, RAF Fylingdales , and other enabling capabilities." The command
21-560: The ISTARI system, with electro-optical sensors and onboard processing, are planned for launch in 2024, under project MINERVA. The first satellite, named Tyche , launched on 16 August 2024 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 . The structure of UK Space Command comprises: Joint warfare Its origins can be traced to the 1938 establishment of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht , the world's first joint higher command structure, though it should not be seen as
28-570: The development of the multi-satellite surveillance and intelligence ISTARI system. The strategy announced that the UK would adopt an "international by design" approach, and is the first state to publicly join the U.S. led Operation Olympic Defender , enabling international sharing of space resources and the synchronisation of space efforts. The UK will strengthen relations with the Five Eyes intelligence partnership. Operational concept demonstrator satellites for
35-477: The same level of "jointness" as U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff . The United States Department of Defense , which endorses joint warfare as an overriding doctrine for its forces, describes it as " team warfare ", which "requires the integrated and synchronized application of all appropriate capabilities. The synergy that results maximizes combat capability in unified action." This priority on national unity of effort means practitioners of joint warfare must acknowledge
42-583: Was announced that Air Commodore Mark Flewin was to become Head Operations, Plans & Training, United Kingdom Space Command, Royal Air Force High Wycombe in May 2021. As of 2021 Commodore David C. Moody (Engineering Branch, RN) was posted in as Head of Space Capability for UK Space Command. In February 2022, the first part of the Defence Space Strategy was published, which included the already announced extra investment of £1.4 billion over 10 years mostly for
49-470: Was initially planned to grow to about 650 personnel. In a March 2021 Defence Command Paper it was announced that part of the additional £1.4 billion allocated to support UK Space Command over the next decade would be used to develop a new Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellite capability, following on from the Carbonite-2 technology demonstrator launched in 2018. On 22 April 2021 it
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