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Artist impression of Hürjet with TCG Anadolu. Original image by omerson/TR3D. Montage by Tayfun Ozberk. Turkey Plans to Deploy Indigenous Aircraft ‘Hürjet’ on LHD Anadolu After Turkey was taken out of the F-35 aircraft program because of CAATSA sanctions imposed by the United States, it has been trying to develop new solutions to deploy fixed-winged air assets on Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) Anadolu. 20 Apr 2021 Despite the lack of F-35B, the Turkish Navy may fly manned jets from its Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) and flagship, the future TCG Anadolu.
A few weeks ago, Turkey’s Head of Defence Industry Presidency, Prof. Ismail Demir, declared that LHD Anadolu is planned to be transformed into a drone carrier which would carry a new attack drone Bayraktar TB-3, derived from the combat-proven TB-2. While the people have been discussing the pros and cons of a “drone-carrier” concep
Air Force Special Operations Forces: Readying for a Russia or China War?
The rise of great power competition means that the entire military is spending less time training and planning for nation building and counter-insurgency.
Air Force Special Operators have a lot of jobs. They can attack from V-22 Ospreys behind enemy lines, conduct high-risk aerial reconnaissance when confronted by advanced air defenses and fly dangerous fixed-wing close air support missions. In fact, all of these are all mission possibilities more likely to be taken up as the Special Operation ramp up preparations for major power warfare.
“The AFSOC that we have is not the AFSOC we will need in the future,” Lt. Gen. James Slife, Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command, told The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies in a recent video interview.
New Plane Key to Special Ops Vision for Africa, General Says Air Force Special Operations Command is planning flight demonstrations in coming months.
A new aircraft that can fly reconnaissance missions and bomb enemy forces is key to U.S. special forces’ future in Africa, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command said Tuesday.
Lt. Gen. James Slife spoke as the Biden administration reviews the U.S. military’s global footprint and prepares to advise Congress on reorienting American forces for future conflicts.
“I would suggest to you that if we want to maintain pressure on those violent extremist organizations that pose a threat to the United States that pose a threat to the homeland we may need to remain engaged in portions of Africa against very specific threats and not just broadly, anywhere where there s an extremist, but specifically where those that pose an external threat are,” Slife said Tuesday during a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies