ETAP [formation] (Projets Aériens Tactiques EUR), 11 pays

• ETAP-T (EATT)
  
• ETAP-C (EAATTC)
  
• ETAP-S (EATS)
  
• ETAP-I (EATIC)
  

1. ETAP-T is an annual training event of two weeks duration aimed at developing a comprehensive airlift training opportunity within the European setting. Training activities are based on national training requirements and are designed to optimise multi-threat, advanced serials, which are challenging for the operational crews. Supported by the European Air Transport Command (EATC), the event runs for two weeks, providing training opportunities not only for the crews but also for Intel, Maintenance, Aeromedical Evacuation teams, Combined Air Terminal Operations (CATO) and paratroopers.
   
2. ETAP-C leads air transport crews through a two-week comprehensive airlift tactics training syllabus to enhance interoperability between European Air Forces. The participating crews are trained within a simulated theatre-deployment setting, exposing them to a complex surface-to-air and air-to-air threat environment, within which they are tasked to conduct demanding airlift missions. At the end of each course, graduating crews will be receive a certificate based on the training objectives achieved. The courses are run four times per year in France, Spain (2 courses), and Bulgaria encompassing single-ship, formation, and night courses (including NVG). The amount of courses will increase to satisfy an ever increasing training demand.
   
3. ETAP-S is an annual, two-day forum including presentations and workshops on airlift related issues at the operator level. It places its focus on operational and technical topics and is a major factor in developing future opportunities and gap analysis of the EATF landscape.
   
4. ETAP-I is a one-week course giving selected national instructors expertise on European airlift doctrine, knowledge of different aircraft types and associated missions, capabilities, and harmonisation of training procedures. The resultant Tactical Instructors are then employed to assist the crews participating to the courses during flight preparation and execution of the missions. At the end of each course, tactical instructors will evaluate the crew’s performance against syllabus requirements.
   

The European Air Transport Fleet (EATF) partnership has now entered into its 'second phase' of optimising the use of existing and future national fleets of military transport aircraft in the continent, the European Defence Agency (EDA) announced on 19 January.

• With the first phase of harmonising diplomatic clearance mechanisms and procedures, and the hosting of live exercises and training events having run from 2011 to 2014, this second phase will build on this work and run through to 2017.
  

• According to the EDA, EATF Phase 2 will include the continuation of the harmonisation of rules, regulations, tactics, techniques and procedures, while developing user groups around airlift platforms such as the Airbus Defence and Space (DS) A400M Atlas, Airbus DS A330 MultiRole Tanker Transport (MRTT), Airbus DS C295, and Embraer KC-390. 
  

         These will be modelled on the user group already being tested for the Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan, and will be developed in co-operation with the European Air Transport Command (EATC) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

• A third and final EATF phase, which is set to run from 2017 to 2021, will seek deeper co-operation between participating nations with regards to new capabilities.
  

Launched in 2011, the EATF comprises Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

COMMENT

The EATF is one of a number of pooling activities that European Union member states have been looking to roll out with the aim of achieving savings in expenditure through greater efficiencies.

However, while such initiatives look great in theory, the potential cost saving will only be truly achieved if the participating nations take the concept on from training and support, and carry it into shared procurement programmes and even look at pooling capabilities across national borders.

States have been reluctant to take such steps to now, given the resultant reductions in manpower and the perceived eroding of national sovereignty, but step-by-step such initiatives will undoubtedly grow as ever-greater savings and cost efficiencies are sought across the continent.

Admin a écrit:Les anglais ne figurent pas sur la carte des moyens
http://eatc-mil.com/27/Fleet

où figurent pourtant les italiens (phase 2)

• l'EATF (voir la liste, 27 si j'ai bien compté) qui dépend probablement des efforts de l'Agence Européenne de Défense (EDA - AED)
  
• et l'EATC, qui ne compte que 7 membres (les 6 du Marché Commun + l'Espagne, à compter de décembre 14), qui est la structure de "pooling and sharing" des pays volontaires pour éviter les vols à vide notamment, par une structure souple (chaque pays peut retirer à tout instant tout ou partie des avions mis en commun) ; ce qui devrait aider à ce que d'autres pays, comme le RU, y participe, mais pour le moment il n'y a que ces 7 là.
  

•  l'EAATC 
  

• (parmi les autres formations et exercices 
  

Initié par l’Agence européenne de défense (EDA) et géré par le Commandement du transport aérien européen (EATC), cette série de cours d’aviation tactique (EAATTC) vise « à fournir aux équipages de transport aérien une organisation et des syllabus musclés sur les tactiques de transport aérien. L’objectif est d’améliorer l’interopérabilité entre les forces aériennes européennes » indique l’Agence européenne de défense « et la faculté de survie du personnel d’avions de transport en environnement hostile » ajoute un officier ayant participé à ce cours précédemment.

Au menu : sessions de formation théorique et vols de familiarisation, avec à la sortie du stage, un certificat qualifiant permettant aux instructeurs qui se sont déplacés de pouvoir à leur tour former des équipages dans leur pays.

Chaque participant est, en effet, censé acquérir (ou recouvrer) le statut « combat-ready », nécessaire pour des opérations en zones difficiles.

Une formation équivalente à celle existante outre-Atlantique

Cette formation européenne « remplace, de façon avantageuse, le cours organisé auparavant aux Etats-Unis », a indiqué à B2 un expert de l’Agence européenne de défense. 
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Un cours qui se déroulait dans le Missouri. L’AATTC est une « référence mondiale » selon des officiers aériens qui y ont participé ...