Counter-Strike from the Sky: The Rhodesian All-Arms Fireforce in the War in the Bush 1974-1980 - Hardcover

Wood, Dr J. R. T.

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ISBN 10: 1920143335 ISBN 13: 9781920143336

Verlag: 30 Degrees South Publishers, 2009

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"It is a must read for any soldier anywhere in the world to learn the skills created by masters of airborne COIN ops...so much detail it's like a manual." -- YouTube Comment

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This title contains a book & DVD. Fireforce as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Coupled with this, the traditional counter-insurgency tactics (against Mugabe's ZANLA and Nkomo's ZIPRA) of follow-ups, tracking and ambushing simply weren't producing satisfactory results. Visionary RhAF and Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) officers thus expanded on the idea of a 'vertical envelopment' of the enemy (first practised by SAS paratroopers in Mozambique in 1973), with the 20mm cannon being the principle weapon of attack, mounted in an Alouette III K-Car ('Killer car'), flown by the air force commander, with the army commander on board directing his ground troops deployed from G-Cars (Alouette III troop-carrying gunships and latterly Bell 'Hueys' in 1979) and parachuted from DC-3 Dakotas. In support would be a propeller-driven ground-attack aircraft armed with front guns, pods of napalm, white phosphorus rockets and a variety of Rhodesian-designed bombs; on call would be Canberra bombers, Hawker Hunter and Vampire jets.

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• Verlag: 30 Degrees South Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1920143335
• ISBN 13: 9781920143336
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308