Air Force operations command service
The Bundeswehr Operations Service of the Air Force (EinsFüDstLw) is a branch of service and a service portion of the German Luftwaffe . The guidance is carried out by air surveillance centers with the NATO designation Control and Reporting Center (CRC).
assignment
As an integral part of NATO air defense, the main task is to monitor assigned airspaces and coordinate air defense measures .
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CRC ( Control and Reporting Center ) or air surveillance centers are the terrestrial counterpart to the airborne NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). EinsFüDstLw and CRC provide most of the operator staff for the ground-based NATO AWACS component. It is used in continuous 24-hour operation, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and is only suspended as part of exercises and maintenance. In such cases and if necessary, the area of responsibility is perceived by another CRC in order to continue to ensure complete coverage of the airspace.
The CRC have FüWES Lw . There, military and civil radar and flight plan data are processed and displayed to form an identified air situation picture. For this purpose, all aircraft, missiles and flying objects are recorded and identified. The air situation picture is made available as a Recognized Air Picture to superior and subordinate command posts and offices.
If visual identification of an aircraft is necessary in peacetime operations , the superordinate Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) initiates the Quick Reaction Alert of an alarm riot and the management of the interception operation via the CRC . There is close cooperation with the control bodies of civil air traffic control and the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs .
history
The EinsFüDstLw emerged from the flight reporting and control service (FlgM / LtDst) as well as the later radar command service (RadarFüDst) and the low-flying reporting and control service (TMLD) .
The reunification in 1990 was connected with the assumption of full sovereignty for the entire airspace. The Luftwaffe thus faced massive challenges. The integration of the radar guidance service of the NVA Air Force (original name radio technical troops - FuTT) - against the background of the changed threat and financial situation - with a simultaneous reduction of personnel and weapon systems - had to take place under great time pressure.
First of all, the radio engineering battalions (FuTB) were restructured to form radar guidance departments 31 in Parchim, 32 in Sprötau, 33 in Pragsdorf and 34 in Schönewalde. The remaining FuTB were decommissioned and dissolved. Individual locations such as the local radio engineering company 311 in Döbern continued to operate.
With the changed threat situation and the transformation of the radar guidance service to today's EinsFüDstLw in West and East, the radar locations, CRC and EinsFüBer were constantly reduced until 2010 as part of air force structure adjustments, whereby the workforce also had to be reduced.
Associations, agencies and equipment
The EinsFüDstLw has operational command areas (EinsFüBer also EFB), CRC, stationary sensors and mobile radar systems of the types Ground Master 406F , HADR , RRP 117 and RAT 31DL .
A EinsFüBer corresponds to an association at regimental level .
equipment
As Air Command and Control System is GIADS used. The ARKONA (FüWES) , which was still partially used until 2010, is only used within the scope of the Deployable Air Situation Display and Interface Processor System (DASDIPS).
Other systems used in CRC are CRC System Interface (CSI) , CIMACT and ASGW . The radar sensor data are transmitted via the military radar data network ( MilRADNET ) and the civilian RADNET of DFS . In addition, the CRC have various connections for tactical data links (TDL) and the Have Quick -compatible second generation Anti-Jam Tactical UHF Radio for NATO (SATURN).
National Air Defense Command Center
The command center for national air defense (FüZNatLV) in Uedem as a military contribution to the national situation and command center for security in the airspace (NLFZ SiLuRa) has been the superior operational command for national missions since July 1st, 2003 .
EinsFüBer 1
The operational command area 1 was stationed in the Zollernalb barracks in Meßstetten . As a rule, his responsibility was to monitor the airspace in southern Germany and to coordinate closely with Germany's southern neighbors.
In accordance with the concept for the stationing of the Bundeswehr in Germany in 2011 by the Federal Minister of Defense of October 26, 2011, operations in operational area 1 were suspended on October 1, 2013 and the association was dissolved with effect from December 31, 2013.
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EinsFüBer 2
The operational management area 2 in Erndtebrück ( Hachenberg barracks ) ( ⊙ ) provides the central training facility for the EinsFüDstLw in addition to the operational tasks. The course-related training for NCOs , sergeants and officers of the EinsFüDst Lw as well as the Tactical Air Command and Control Sector (TACCS) of some NATO partners is carried out in the Hachenberg barracks .
The headquarters for the system center 25 (SysZ 25) is also located in the Hachenberg barracks .
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EinsFüBer 3
The application guide section 3 is in Schönewalde (wood village) stationed and is responsible for air traffic control in eastern Germany in coordination with the Eastern neighbors. The CRC is located in the Harald bunker .
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Deployable CRC
In addition to the stationary bunkered command post in Schönewalde, EinsFüBer 3 also has a Deployable CRC (DCRC) with EinsUstgKp at the Holzdorf location . The DCRC, fully equipped with GIADS, CSI, MilRADNET, TDL , SATURN and CIMACT, can be installed and used worldwide.
Structure of the operational management association
A EinsFüBer is divided into a deployment command squadron (EinsFüStff), in which the tactical tasks are processed in the CRC, and a deployment support squadron (EinsUstgStff). It is subordinate to remote technical trains (AbgTZg) that ensure the operation of the radar and telecommunications systems, some of which are far away from the CRC .
The commander of a EinsFüBer / CRC is usually a colonel . A staff is at the side of the commander.
Specialty
EinsFüBer 4 in Aurich was decommissioned on December 17, 2010 and subsequently disbanded.
Subordination and responsibility
The EinsFü units with the respective CRC are subordinate to the Air Force Center for Air Operations . In order to fulfill national missions, the CRC are subordinate to the National Situation and Command Center for Security in the Airspace , also at the Air Force Air Operations Center.
The CRC are already part of the NATO Command Forces peacekeeping operations , which means that they are directly subordinate to the higher-level NATO Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) for operations .
In the case of a necessary takeover of the missions to be carried out in purely national responsibility, such as Renegade Aircraft Investigation , responsibility is transferred to the FüZNatLV, which in turn reports to the inspector of the Air Force as German Air Defense Commander for the specific application .
The military operational guideline and instruction authority is based on the Air Force Command . Procurement and usage management of the radar systems, FüWES Lw and add-on systems including software maintenance and modification (SWPÄ) as well as configuration control are the responsibility of the Air Force's weapon system command .
Web links
- The Luftwaffe operations command service on the Luftwaffe homepage
- The operational command associations on the Air Force homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gernot Morbach, Günter Sudhoff: "The Air Force Operations Command Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow", in: Strategy & Technology, October 2008, p. 39ff
- ↑ Gunnar Digutsch: The NVA and the army of unity. In: Frank Nägler: The Bundeswehr 1955 to 2005. Flashbacks, insights, perspectives. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-57958-1 , p. 470
- ↑ The Air Force Operations Management Service - viewed August 11, 2010
- ↑ CRC System Interface (CSI)