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Air supremacy is a position in war where a side holds complete control of air warfare and air power over opposing forces. It is defined by NATO and the United States Department of Defense as the "degree of air superiority wherein the opposing air force is incapable of effective interference."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nsa.nato.int/nsa/zPublic/ap/aap6/AAP-6.pdf )〕〔 〕 ==Types== There are three levels of control of the air: * ''Air supremacy'' is the highest level, where a side holds complete control of the skies. * ''Air superiority'' is the second level, where a side is in a more favorable position than the opponent. It is defined in the NATO glossary as the "degree of dominance in () air battle ... that permits the conduct of operations by (side ) and its related land, sea and air forces at a given time and place without prohibitive interference by opposing air forces."〔 * ''Air parity'' is the lowest level of control, where a side only holds control of skies above friendly troop positions. The degree of a force's air control is a zero-sum game with its opponent's; increasing control by one corresponds to decreasing control by the other. Air forces unable to contest for air superiority or air parity can strive for ''air denial'', where they maintain an operations level conceding air superiority to the other side, but preventing it from achieving air supremacy. Air power has increasingly become a powerful element of military campaigns; military planners view having an environment of at least air superiority as a necessity. Air supremacy allows increased bombing efforts, tactical air support for ground forces, paratroop assaults, airdrops and simple cargo plane transfers, which can move ground forces and supplies. Air power is a function of the degree of air superiority and numbers or types of aircraft, but it represents a situation that defies black-and-white characterization. NATO forces in air superiority over Kosovo lost a stealth strike aircraft to an "obsolete"〔("The conduct of the air campaign" ), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) official website (Retrieved 26 July 2013)〕 Serbian air defense system, and primitive An-2 biplanes (less visible to radar than metal planes) were considered for some time a serious capability of the Korean People's Air Force in North Korea. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「air supremacy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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