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Cheap CAS/COIN is an Illusion – Lets Get Off the Bandwagon
Listen to anyone these days (even this blog!) and they all say we must have a turboprop close air support and COIN aircraft. The US has issued various requests for information and is pursuing the concept under the Imminent Fury programme. Will any of these programmes go ahead, who knows, but we thought we would have a look at the [...]
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COIN Aircraft – Cracking the Nut
With any conflict, whether it is conventional or counter insurgency (COIN), airpower will play an important, if not pivotal role. When fighting a large, sophisticated army the air assets need to be equally sophisticated to counter the vast array of weapons that will be deployed against them. In a counter insurgency war, the anti-aircraft weapons deployed by the enemy tend [...]
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- The Warrior
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- The Future of the British Army – Logistics
- The Sad Demise of Defence Journalism
- Another Busy Time for HMS Ocean
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