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Air and defences
* 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
The Naval and Army Air Services also directed a number of strategic raids against Britain, leading the way in bombing techniques and also forcing the British to bolster their anti-aircraft defences.
Examples where statistical analysis directly influenced tactics include the work done by Patrick Blackett's team on the optimum size and speed of convoys and the introduction of bomber streams by the Royal Air Force to counter the night fighter defences of the Kammhuber Line.
In the low-level role, which had originally been intended to be performed by the cancelled BAC TSR-2, the V Force were considered by Air Staff planners to be largely immune from interception, the Soviet air defences being assessed as having no significant interception capability below 1, 500 ft, any remaining threat coming from the SA-3 low-level surface-to-air missile, flight planners taking care to route aircraft around known SA-3 sites.
As a result Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, established a committee composed of himself and General Jan Smuts, which was tasked with investigating the problems with the British air defences and organizational difficulties which had beset the Air Board.
Garud is tasked with acting as quick response teams during attacks on critical Air Force bases and installations, search and rescue of downed pilots, forward air control and carrying out strikes against enemy air defences and radar installations.
Upon the outbreak of war in September 1939, British rearmament was not yet complete, although the Royal Air Force had been greatly expanded and programmes for new aircraft and equipment such as radar defences were just coming to fruition.
Thus, while smaller in terms of total number of planes, the FAE of January 1995 felt qualitatively capable of facing the FAP on more or less equal terms, in striking contrast to the situation during the crisis of 1981, where except for a small number of missions, the FAE had been kept on the ground armed and ready for immediate action, to be committed only in case of a full-fledged war, their positions in the Cordillera del Cóndor was well defended due to tactically placed SAMs by the FAE, and units armed with British-made Blowpipe and Russian-made SA-16 MANPADs, nevertheless, such defences didn ´ t stop the continuous raids of the Peruvian Air Force, which lost several aircraft in the effort.
Air power and radio, recent developments in warfare, would allow units to establish bases deep in enemy territory, breaching the outer defences and extend the range of conventional forces.
Royal Canadian Air Force Station North Bay was founded on 1 September 1951, part of the expansion of Canada's air defences in face of the rising threat of nuclear air attack from the Soviet Union.
On 12 September 1957, Canada and the United States formed the North American Air Defence Command ( NORAD ), an organization unifying the countries ' air defences into a single, coordinated, fast-reacting network.
The Luftwaffe plays a key tactical bombing role in neutralising Polish defences, employing almost 1, 600 aircraft against the Polish Air Forces 397.
* Guard detachment Fusiliers Commandos de l ' Air responsible for the base security and ground defences.
The town also housed two Basque army battalions, although it had no static air defences, and it was thought that no air cover could be expected due to recent losses of the Republican Air Force.
The Luftwaffe ( German Air Force ) and the Italian Regia Aeronautica ( Italian Royal Air Force ) flew a total of 3, 000 bombing raids over a period of two years in an effort to destroy RAF defences and the ports.
Air defences against paratroopers were placed in nearby fields, but this was strengthened in 1941 when the Royal Air Force established both a RAF Regiment base and a glider training facility.
Due to increasing PAVN anti-aircraft artillery defences encountered in southeastern Laos, delivery in high-risk areas of the trail system was handed over from the Neptunes to Air Force F-4 Phantom II fighter-bombers that had been specially equipped for the missions.
Until King Michael's Coup, the Romanian Navy retreated behind the protection of the coastal mine barrages and anti-aircraft defences of Constanța as the Soviet Air Force began to launch heavy air attacks.
Royal Air Force reconnaissance soon reported stronger opposition than anticipated, and this, along with the possibility that the Germans might be controlling the shore defences, caused them to recall the force and instead use the aircraft carrier HMS Furious to launch torpedo bombers at the enemy ships.
The British War Cabinet discussed this issue at meetings on 3 June and on the morning of 4 June, but it decided to take the advice of the Royal Air Force and the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, that the British priority must be to prepare its own defences.
# Air operational capability and air defences ;

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It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.
Ministry of Defense forces included the 103rd Guards Air Assault Division and the 38th Separate Assault-Landing Brigade ; the 28th Army Corps ( Grodno and Brest regions ), composed of headquarters at Grodno, the 6th Detached Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the 11th Detached Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the 50th Detached Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the Armament and Equipment base, and corps units ( missile troops, antiaircraft, chemical and engineer troops, signals, and rear services ); the 65th Army Corps ( Minsk and Vitebsk regions ), composed of headquarters at Barysaw, three armament and equipment bases, and corps units ; and the 5th Guards Army Corps ( Minsk and Mahilyow regions ) made up of headquarters at Babruysk, the 30th Detached Mechanized Infantry Brigade, two Armament and Equipment bases, and corps units.
Air Force equipment included in 2004 260 FGA / training aircraft and 80 attack helicopters.
His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).
These included container ships for Air Force munitions, missiles and spare parts ; a 500-bed hospital ship, and floating storage and offloading units assigned to Military Sealift Command supporting the Defense Logistics Agency, and an offshore petroleum discharge system ( OPDS ) tanker ship.
Briton Simon Mann, a former officer in the Special Air Service, led the plot, which also included former members of the South African Army 32 Battalion.
Significant individual contributions to the war effort by Scots included the invention of radar by Robert Watson-Watt, which was invaluable in the Battle of Britain, as was the leadership at RAF Fighter Command of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding.
Broadcasting innovations in the 1980s included sound multiplex ( two-language or stereo ) broadcasting, satellite broadcasting, and in 1985 the University of the Air and teletext services were inaugurated.
Conventions which used the Franc Poincaré included the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage and the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage.
The 350, 000-person Navy included Naval Air Force units of 34, 000 men, the Coastal Defense Forces of 38, 000, and the Marine Corps of 56, 500.
His Air Force career included operational command and leadership positions in a variety of Air Force and Joint assignments.
His Air Force career included operational command and leadership positions in a variety of Air Force and Joint assignments.
The nationalised public utilities included Charbonnages de France ( CDF ), Electricité de France ( EDF ), Gaz de France ( GDF ), Air France, Banque de France, and Régie Nationale des Usines Renault.
This included B-52 and B-1 bomber aircraft assigned to the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, respectively.
Myriad smaller subunits included test, evaluation and acquisition activities serving as tenants with former Air Force Systems Command and Air Force Logistics Command entities, as well as ceremonial guard formations such as the SAC Elite Guard.
The US Air Force had studied these concepts under " Project Defender " as early as 1958, which included work on the " Ballistic Missile Boost Interceptor ", or BAMBI.
Figures for total Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Air Service war dead were included in the total dead and not listed separately in War Office report.
Similar protections were included in subsequent federal environmental laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 ( through 1978 amendment to protect nuclear whistleblowers ), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ( CERCLA, or the Superfund Law ) ( 1980 ), and the Clean Air Act ( 1990 ).
The AGM-114 has been the munition of choice for airborne targeted killings that have included high-profile figures such as Ahmed Yassin ( Hamas leader ) in 2004 by the Israeli Air Force and ; Anwar al-Awlaki ( American-born Islamic cleric and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader ) in Yemen in 2011,

Air and SA-5
A separate Air Defence Command had SA-2, SA-3, SA-5 Gammon, and SA-8b Gecko, plus guns.
* October 4 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812, a Tupolev Tu-154, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, probably the victim of an errant S-200 ( SA-5 Gammon ) surface-to-air missile fired during a Ukrainian Air Defense Forces exercise.
* Air defence: 625 SAM-500 SA-3, 75 SA-4, 50 SA-5

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