A member of Battery C, 1-174 Air Defense Artillery Regiment with a Stinger missile during Combined Resolve XI at Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, December 7, 2018. US Army/Charles Rosemond
Business Insider: The US Army is practicing to take down enemy aircraft in the skies over Europe
* The US military has renewed its focus on great-power competition.
* As part of that, it's preparing to take on a near-peer or peer adversary.
* That includes training for situations in which US forces won't control the air.
The US military is shifting its focus toward preparing for great-power conflict, and on the ground in Europe, where heightened tensions with Russia have a number of countries worried about renewed conflict.
That includes new attention to short-range air-defense — a capability needed against an adversary that could deploy ground-attack aircraft, especially helicopters, and contest control of the air during a conflict.
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WNU Editor: China and Russia are the only two countries that can seriously contest U.S. control of the air.
You always need manpads and the enemy needs to know it. Hopefully, they fly differently and are not as effective.
ReplyDeleteSniper ..., I mean, Stinger at Work.
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ReplyDeleteMan pads are good for close reach, for higher altitude that's an other story.
ReplyDeleteTru dat Jac.
ReplyDeleteBut by making it dangerous near the ground you can force them up into the teeth of other systems. A good air defense system is layered like in Vietnam (ZSU 23 & SA2 working together).