Study on role adjusting strategy in joint Close Air Support

Close Air Support (CAS) planning in the past has been primarily a mission preplanning activity. Due to the situation of CAS operations being more and more complicated, the mission of CAS is becoming harder to operate than in past operations. Adjusting the role of teammate in a strike team is crucial in close air support (CAS). In this paper, we depict the role types of the Joint CAS team and the models of the role mental states such as the role belief, role goal and role plan firstly; and then we propose the role adjusting strategy based on the CAS situation and mission, i.e., the situation-oriented and the mission-oriented role adjusting strategies, such as role belief, role goal, and role plan adjusting strategies etc., so that the role of the teammate can be adjusted to meet the requirement of the joint CAS and the combat effectiveness can be increased in maximum degrees.