FULW
FULW (pronounced: fulf ) is the abbreviation for command support for the Swiss Air Force .
The command support of the air force is organized in the teaching association FU 30 (LVb FU 30). The teaching association consists of five schools on three weapon stations and the deployment formations. Before the army reform, Army XXI , the unit was called "Informatikbrigade 34" and was then renamed "LVb FULW 34" and finally after a reorganization into "LVb FU 30".
Brigadier René Baumann has been in command since 2015. His predecessors include Brigadier Peter Zahler (2006–2008) and Brigadier Willy Siegenthaler (2009–2014). Around 3500 militiamen (including around 1000 officers and NCOs) are assigned to the entire teaching association. Training locations are the barracks Frauenfeld, Dübendorf, Kloten / Bülach and Jassbach.
assignment
The LVb FU 30 regards itself as a "service company" which is completely geared towards customer requirements. With radar, radio reconnaissance, observers (optical), weather balloons, etc., information is obtained, collected and delivered to or transmitted to the customer, which requires a sophisticated transmission network.
The LVb FU 30 is in real use every year at the WEF in Davos . Be it with observation posts (flight movements in the valleys and weather reports for the helipilots) or with a mobile TAFLIR radar. Depending on the application, a task force is put together in a kind of modular construction, which corresponds exactly to the order.
The FULW regards itself as something like the spine of the Air Force. There is a mix between expensive high-tech equipment and hard work outside on the observation post in wind and weather. The observers in the news companies make a valuable contribution to gathering information about possible enemy activities and know all the aircraft and tank types used in various countries.
Ordre de Bataille
The mission formation of the teaching association is divided into 7 departments ( battalion ):
- LW Radar Division 1
- Operates the fixed radar stations in the Alps that are part of the FLORAKO system. Range approx. 400 km
- Mobile LW Radar Department 2
- Operates the TAFLIR mobile radar systems . Range approx. 100 km.
- LW EKF (Electronic Warfare) Department 3
- Responsible for SIGINT (Signals Intelligence = signal reconnaissance) in the area of COMINT (Communications Intelligence = radio reconnaissance) and ELINT (Electronic Intelligence = radar reconnaissance). The exact number and locations of the reconnaissance systems are subject to security level 2 and are therefore secret.
- LW Ristl (directional beam) Department 4
- Since 2008 it is no longer subordinate to the Air Force, but to the FUB. With the fixed broadband network of the Air Force, which is used daily by the army and the government for data and telephone traffic, the connections of the LW systems are ensured. In addition, there are mobile beam devices for field connections.
- LW Uem (transmission) department 5
- Radio links are operated with various means. Among other things, for the FEBEKO system, which coordinates the deployment of the Flab and Airmen. It also operates the FIS LW, a kind of Internet for the Swiss Army.
- LW Na (News) Department 6
- By Max. At 60 observation posts in the area, information is collected for tactical customers and passed on via message centers. (Air situation, ground activities, AC measurements, weather reports, etc.) The Na Abt 6 can be described as the eyes and ears of the military and political leadership, which in the event of a crisis would otherwise sit blindly in their bunkers without knowing what is going on outside .
- Wet (weather) department 7
- She captures u. a. With probing balloons the current weather situation for the benefit of the entire army and Meteo Switzerland and creates the corresponding reports and forecasts with experts.
- LW FU (Leadership Support) Department 8
- Reserve department of the teaching association FU 30.