The Royal air Force has expressed the ambition to, in the future, the universe. The new Air and Space Warfare Center among other things to go see or Defence the decision should get on a private spacecraft.
Johan van Deventer, luchtmachtoverste and boss of the new Air and Space Warfare Center of the Royal air Force, argues in the Telegraph that the ministry of Defence to the threats and opportunities of the space wants to go and explore. In his eyes must have a technologically sophisticated armed forces “of the limits to be even higher to shift to the “Dutch interests in the stratosphere to defend”. According to Van Deventer is Star Wars not science fiction” and is, for example, very quickly manschappenvervoer to the other side of the world soon reality.
One of the options that Defence wants to see is the possible purchase of a private ruimtevliegtuig. This would can be used, for example, own satellites in an orbit around the earth. This is in particular with great interest looked at the Lynx, a small ruimtevliegtuig that is currently being developed for the commercial space industry. The Dutch company Space Expedition Corporation hopes next year the first flights from Curaçao. The Lynx would with a custom design, in which the ruimtevliegtuig of a cargo space has military applications.
Within NATO, the Netherlands has in the space sector already working together with Germany and Norway, in which latter country recently a private testsatelliet launched. In addition, the Royal air Force engaged in the purchase of new aircraft, among others, in the form of drones and the controversial F-35, better known as the JSF.
