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APPENDIX 1
FUNDAMENTAL OBJECTIVES
Maximize the contribution of the aircraft systems to the Brazilian Air Force
operational capability.
1. Maximize the Force Application capability
Force Application: ability to destroy, neutralize and affect targets including forces,
people, and equipment as well as the ability to survive in a hostile environment.
1.1 Maximize the capability to engage targets
Engagement – Encounter which involves hostile action by at least one participant. 125
1.1.1 In the air
Air - Air near Earth‘s surface usually taken to be (% by volume): nitrogen 78.08;
oxygen 20.95; argon 0.93; other gases (in descending order of concentration,
carbon dioxide, neon, helium, methane, krypton, hydrogen, xenon and ozone)
0.04. 126
1.1.2 In the surface
Surface – 6.Generalized term for Earth‘s surface, hence surface target = one on
land or water. 127
1.1.3 In the subsurface
Subsurface – Below, under, beneath the surface.
125 Bill Gunston, The Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 212.
126 Ibid., 27.
127 Ibid., 612.
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