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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.
In 1991 under US Air Force contract, the ARES 25 mm cannon was installed and during testing the cannon performed well but the ARES remains a private project. After an appearance in the movie Aces: Iron Eagle III as a fictional Me 263 fighter , the aircraft has become a commercially available research test bed.
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).
A Draken Douglas A-4K. Draken was established by Jared Isaacman at Lakeland Linder International Airport in January 2012. [1] In 2015, the company was awarded contracts to provide training for the Air National Guard (ANG) at Volk Field in Wisconsin, for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Joint Tactical Air Control at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, and at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center ...
Forerunners of the Israeli Air Force were Sherut Avir, the air wing of the Haganah, and the Palestine Flying Service established by the Irgun in 1937. [5] The Israeli Air Force formed on May 28, 1948, shortly after Israel declared statehood and found itself under attack. The force consisted of a hodge-podge of commandeered or donated civilian ...
Aircraft providing close air support attack targets in nearby proximity to friendly ground forces, acting in direct support of the ground operations (as a "flying artillery"). Air interdiction, by contrast, attacks tactical targets that are distant from or otherwise not in contact with friendly units.
close air support: twinjet, single-seat 1,000+ February 22, 1975 1981, July 19 1978–present - Su-27: Flanker multirole fighter, air superiority fighter: twinjet, single-seat 809 May 20, 1977 1985, June 22 1982–present - Su-33: Flanker D carrier-based multirole fighter, air superiority fighter: twinjet, single-seat 35~ August 17, 1987 1998 ...
It is designed for counter-insurgency (COIN), close air support (CAS), and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. [1] The A-67 is a low-cost aircraft built for low-intensity conflict situations, with a reported unit price of $4–5 million. [2] The sole aircraft built is in storage at the MAPS Air Museum. [3]