Close air support and interdiction, especially at low altitudes, are exceedingly dangerous but crucially necessary missions.
Here s What You Need to Remember: These attack aircraft have, over the years, ably performed one of the most critical airpower missions the destruction of the fielded forces of the enemy, and the support of friendly ground troops.
Is the dedicated attack aircraft a dying breed? Few air forces are developing new attack aircraft, preferring to rely on fighter-bombers carrying precision-guided munitions to do the dirty work of close air support and battlefield interdiction. But then it has always been such; tactical attack has long been shunted to the side by air forces more interested in fast fighters and majestic bombers. Many of the attack aircraft used in World War II began design life as fighters, only becoming attack planes when they “failed.” And yet these attack aircraft have, over the years, ably performed one of the most critical airpower missio
Posted on April 18, 2021.
The tension in Ukraine between the U.S. and Russia continues. A Pentagon official explained to CNN that the United States is considering sending a warship to the Black Sea in the weeks ahead. NATO, American imperialism’s instrument of attack and occupation, is also involved in this issue, and has given support to Ukraine. The U.S. has stated that the only path to a solution is for Ukraine to become a NATO member. On the other hand, Russia has stated that the U.S. exacerbated relations, and took foolish and inconclusive steps. Russia has gathered troops at the Ukrainian border. This tension is also of direct concern to Turkey because the 1936 Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits is squarely at the center of this issue.
Lookout NATO: Russia Is Replacing its Feared Iskander Missile
The Iskander-M tactical missile system was designed to strike adversary low-sized and site targets to a range of up to 500 kilometers.
Here s What You Need to Remember: In addition to Iskander missiles based on the Russian mainland, the platform has been deployed to the semi-exclave Kaliningrad, where the missiles continue to threaten parts of Poland, Sweden, Germany, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia. The mobile missile carriers, which have long been a Russian military hallmark, also provide the opportunity to choke off parts of the Baltic Sea.
The 9K720 Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missile system was developed during the final years of the Cold War, but it wasn’t tested until 1996 and only entered service in 2006. It has seen use in the Russo-Georgian War and the Syrian Civil War, but now the platform, which was designed to evade missile defenses, could be on the way out by the end of the decade.
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Explained: Five Shortest Wars in Human History
While some may use different qualifiers than I have in my analysis, here is my take on the five shortest wars in all of history.
The United States military has been involved in Afghanistan since October 2001, and while involvement is now in its second phase, even that is now entering its seventh year – longer than America s involvement in World War I and World War II combined. Yet, the more than 19 years is actually relatively short compared to such seemingly endless conflicts including the Spanish Reconquista and the Roman-Persian Wars, which spanned hundreds of years, depending on the historian one cites.