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Parent topics
- Air warfare planning [r]: The set of doctrines and procedures for carrying out all types of air warfare, as an integrated whole [e]
- Air assault [r]: Military operations in which infantry are carried by aircraft onto, or very near, the target, or by parachuting. The aircraft may be helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft, short-landing transports, or, historically, gliders. [e]
Subtopics
- A-1 Skyraider [r]: Add brief definition or description
- A-10 Thunderbolt II [r]: A heavily armed close air support and ground attack aircraft, which can loiter over a battlefield and then hit targets with great accuracy, while retaining high survivability against ground fire. [e]
- AH-1 Cobra [r]: The first purpose-built U.S. attack helicopter, introduced by the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War; the U.S. Marine Corps still operates a much-modified version [e]
- AH-6 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AH-64 Apache [r]: A United States Army attack helicopter capable of day/night missions in all weather. [e]
- Alphajet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armed helicopter [r]: A helicopter that can be configured to carry troops or cargo only, light weapons and troops, or possibly a heavier ammunition load with still-removable weapons. [e]
- AV-8 Harrier II [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Forward air controller [r]: An individual or team, knowledgeable in both ground and air warfare, who coordinates close air support for a ground unit to which they are responsible [e]
- FROGFOOT [r]: NATO designation for Russian Su-25 close air support fixed-wing aircraft [e]
- GR7 Harrier II [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Il-2 Stormovik [r]: Russian WWII ground attack aircraft, the world's prototype for heavily armored and armed tank-killers such as today's U.S. Air Force A-10 "Warthog" [e]
- Su-25 [r]: Heavily armed and armored Russian close air support aircraft, NATO designation FROGFOOT, similar to the U.S. A-10, and the descendant of the Second World War Il-2 Stormovik [e]
- Attack helicopter [r]: A helicopter equipped with built-in heavy weapons, which has no standard cargo capacity and is used as a "flying tank" in close air support or battlefield air interdiction. [e]
- Danger close [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fire direction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Forward observer [r]: An individual or team, specializing in artillery, who accompanies ground troops and directs indirect fire artillery in support of those ground troops [e]
- Fratricide [r]: The killing of one's brother, but in a military context, the killing of one's own forces ("friendly fire"). [e]
- Laser designator [r]: A device that puts a distinctive, usually invisible, pattern of laser energy on an object, for purposes such as designating the target of a laser-guided bomb [e]
- Precision-guided munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Special reconnaissance [r]: Add brief definition or description