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A Bombardier E-11A at Kandahar International Airport in April 2019. E-11A 11–9001 at Dubai Airshow 2021. The Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) is a United States Air Force (USAF) airborne communications relay and gateway system carried by the unmanned EQ-4B and the manned Bombardier E-11A aircraft.
Allied Communications Publications are documents developed by the Combined Communications-Electronics Board and NATO, which define the procedures for communicating in computer messaging, radiotelephony, radiotelegraph, radioteletype (RATT), air-to-ground signalling (panel signalling), and other forms of communications used by the armed forces of the five CCEB member countries and/or NATO.
USN Task Force 52: USN Task Group 52.3 – Air Support Group: USN CVE CarDiv24: USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) Air Squadron VC-39; Sunk by aircraft 24 Nov; USS Coral Sea (CVE-57) Air Squadron VC-33; USS Corregidor (CVE-58) Air Squadron VC-41; USN Task Group 52.13 CarDiv24- Northern Attack Force (created 23 Nov): USS Nassau (CVE-16) attached from TG 53.6
At the same time, bombers from the Italian Air Force made determined attacks on the Ark Royal, but without success. Also in November 1940, carrier-launched attacks were made from Ark Royal on the dam at Lake Tirso in Sardinia. In February 1941, an oil refinery, factory, airfield, and railroad junction were bombed and a harbor mined.
The five paragraph order or five paragraph field order is a style of organizing information about a military situation for a unit in the field. It is an element of Canadian Army, United States Army, United States Marine Corps and United States Navy Seabees small unit tactics, and similar order styles are used by military groups around the world.
The codes are intended for use by air, ground, sea, and space operations personnel at the tactical level. Code words that are followed by an asterisk (*) may differ in meaning from NATO usage. There is a key provided below to describe what personnel use which codes, as codes may have multiple meanings depending on the service.
In October 1941, after Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR, which had begun on 22 June, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, made a commitment to send a convoy to the Arctic ports of the USSR every ten days and to deliver 1,200 tanks a month from July 1942 to January 1943, followed by 2,000 tanks and another 3,600 aircraft more than those already promised.
Bad weather over the next few days reduced operations and on 14 July, Kesselring sent the IV.(St)/LG 1 Ju 87s against convoys, when the escorts from III./JG 3 and II./JG 51 shot down a Hurricane from 615 Squadron but only one Ju 87 and one Bf 109 were destroyed and another force-landed. The air battle took place over a convoy which was recorded ...