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With the release of the Aerial Attack Study, pilots realized that the high-stakes death dance of aerial combat was solved. [26] Boyd said that a pilot going into aerial combat must know two things: the position of the enemy and the velocity of the enemy. Given the velocity of an enemy, a pilot can decide what the enemy can do.
American Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers attacking a Romanian oil refinery, May 1944. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was a written report created by a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of the Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European theatre of World War II.
Aerial warfare is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare.Aerial warfare includes bombers attacking enemy installations or a concentration of enemy troops or strategic targets; fighter aircraft battling for control of airspace; attack aircraft engaging in close air support against ground targets; naval aviation flying against sea and nearby land targets; gliders ...
Senator Reid in 2002. Initiated by then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) [9] as the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) to study unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) at the urging of Reid's friend, Nevada billionaire and governmental contractor Robert Bigelow, [10] and with support from the late senators Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii ...
The short film Aerial Torpedo Attack - High Speed High Altitude is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. – This film shows examples of several attack profiles developed by the US navy using Caltech research. "Aircraft Torpedo Rings" (PDF), Naval Aviation News, pp. 18– 19, 1 March 1945
More strong winds in Southern California could impact aerial efforts to fight the wildfires that have destroyed more than 12,000 structures.
To be legal, aerial operations must comply with the principles of humanitarian law: military necessity, distinction, and proportionality: [1] An attack or action must be intended to help in the military defeat of the enemy; it must be an attack on a military objective, and the harm caused to protected civilians or civilian property must be ...
Considered to be the first aerial attack that caused widespread destruction of a city in military aviation history. See: Bombing of Guernica. Barcelona: Spain: 16–19 March 1938 1,000–1,300 Italian Fascist Aviazione Legionaria: See: Bombing of Barcelona. Alicante: Spain: 25 May 1938 275–393 Italian Fascist Aviazione Legionaria: See ...