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2. Close air support - Wikipedia

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   U.S. Air Force joint terminal attack controllers watching an A-10 Thunderbolt II provide close air support during a live fire exercise. In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as aerial warfare actions—often air-to-ground actions such as strafes or airstrikes—by military aircraft against hostile targets in close proximity to friendly forces.

3. List of active equipment of the German Air Force - Wikipedia

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   In July 2023, the US State Department approved the sale of AIM-120C8 for €2.61 billion. It includes: 969 AIM-120C-8 + 12 guidance sections + Captive Air Training Missiles + support equipment. [70] In May 2024, the Parliamentary Budget Committee approved the purchase of an unknown quantity of missiles for €178 million. [71] IRIS-T Germany

4. Persistent Close Air Support - Wikipedia

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   PCAS-Air's modular design allows it to work with almost any aircraft. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The first tests conducted with U.S. Air Force A-10s took place from April through June 2015. Flying 50 sorties, 10 involved live-fire engagements that were carried out within six minutes, where JTACs commanded airstrikes with as few as three clicks on a ...

5. Scaled Composites ARES - Wikipedia

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   The aircraft fuselage is almost completely made of fiberglass composite material installed over the foam core. The fabrication technique of composite aircraft fuselages has been perfected by Scaled Composites in previous aircraft. To assure a low cost and high reliability of the components ARES primarily includes off-the-shelf aircraft systems.

6. Aircraft Armament Equipment - Wikipedia

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   This means that modern military aircraft are meant to be versatile, and are capable of executing a variety of military missions, including offensive counter air (OCA) and defensive counter air (DCA), an interceptor anti-aircraft (AA) role, close air support (CAS) as well as combat air patrol (CAP), deep strike, electronic warfare (EW ...

7. AN/TPQ-2 Close Air Support System - Wikipedia

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   After the Air Medal was awarded for development of ground-directed bombing in Italy for World War II Close Air Support, a detachment of NAS Mojave's "Pilotless Aircraft Unit" was established in 1945 [specify] on a SeaBee military installation at Point Mugu [3] (4 officers and 11 enlisted men).

8. Deadly, New B-1 Bombers Could Obliterate Chinese Aircraft ...

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   Cut loose from the nuclear mission, the bomber has languished—even used as a fast, if very expensive, close air support aircraft in Afghanistan. The average age of a B-1 bomber is 34.5 years, ...

9. Forward air control - Wikipedia

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   Forward air control is the provision of guidance to close air support (CAS) [1] aircraft intended to ensure that their attack hits the intended target and does not injure friendly troops. This task is carried out by a forward air controller (FAC). [2] A primary forward air control function is ensuring the safety of friendly troops during close ...