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A strike package is a group of aircraft with different capabilities that are launched together to perform a single attack mission. It is a combined arms effort in the air. The United States Navy calls the same concept " alpha strike ".
Alpha strike [1] is a term used by the United States Navy to denote a large air attack by an aircraft carrier air wing, first coined during the Vietnam War. [2] It is the Navy's version of the more widely used term " strike package ."
The Package Q Airstrike was the largest airstrike of the Gulf War and the largest strike of F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft in military history. Many aircraft, including the F-117 Nighthawk , were used to attack targets in Baghdad , which was the most heavily defended area of Iraq .
This mission also marked the largest single operational F-16 strike package flown to date. [12] F-16s were used also as Wild Weasel shooters, with AGM-88 HARM missiles, together with older F-4Gs (480th TFS, 52nd Wing). [13] There were only 13 F-16s with HARMs, all based at Incirlik Air Base, together with 12 F-4Gs.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Coup de main: a swift pre-emptive strike. Debellatio: to end a war by complete destruction of a hostile state. More severe than sacking. Decisive victory: an overwhelming victory for one side, often shifting the course of conflict. Defilade: a unit or position is "defiladed" if it is protected from direct exposure to enemy fire; see also Hull-down.
During the transit to the target area, the F-14As from CVW-15's strike package had to travel more than 644 km (400 miles) to reach a tanker aircraft to avoid alerting Iraqi Air Defence commanders. Despite this, they were able to support the carrier strike aircraft during mission as well as 40 minutes after the last bomb. [11]
The main unions providing a strike fund in Spain are Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) and the Basque Basque Workers' Solidarity (ELA-STV). [citation needed]According to ELA, [5] its fund received 13.7 million euros between 2008 and 2011, 15.1% of its expenses, and 19.1 M€ between 2012 and 2016 (16,24%).