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The Fast FAC mission would supplement the FAC mission in Southeast Asia until war's end. [51] In July 1966, night FAC operations began against the Ho Chi Minh Trail; A-26 Invaders began a dual FAC/strike mission under call sign "Nimrod". [52] The U.S. Air Force began Operation Shed Light as a test of night time battlefield illumination. [53]
The Forward Air Controller (FAC) fulfilled many duties during the Second Indochina War.In addition to the usual close air support strike missions to aid South Vietnamese ground forces in their struggle against insurgents backed by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, he might direct combat search and rescue operations or air interdiction strikes on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The Cessna O-2 Skymaster (nicknamed "Oscar Deuce") is a military version of the Cessna 337 Super Skymaster, used for forward air control (FAC) and psychological operations (PSYOPS) by the US military between 1967 and 2010.
As of Fiscal Year 2002/2003, COR had a total of 1,703 staff and an annual institutional budget of US$115 million. [2] As of April 30, 2020, COR was incarcerating people at 119.4% of its design capacity, with 3,719 occupants. [5] Individual cells, fenced perimeters and armed coverage
[2] When RAF Brawdy was decommissioned as an RAF base and handed over to the army, JFACTSU moved to RAF Finningley in South Yorkshire. Finningley then closed just two years later and in 1995, JFACTSU moved to its present location at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire [2] as the Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standardisation Unit.
Beginning in the summer of 1972, it began training USAF and South Vietnamese forward air controllers (FAC) to direct tactical fighters in attacks on communist forces in addition to the psychological warfare mission. It employed the Cessna O-1 Bird Dog and Cessna O-2 Skymaster aircraft. Visual reconnaissance formed the core FAC mission during ...
The squadron was re-designated as the 176th Tactical Air Support Squadron (TASS), and in December 1974 the unit's F-102's were replaced by the Cessna O-2A Skymaster Forward Air Control (FAC) aircraft. The O-2 was the military version of the Cessna 337 Skymaster, a high wing, twin boom aircraft with a unique centerline pusher/tractor twin engine ...
The Germans and French worked together to produce a new FAC, resulting in the La Combattante type, first commissioned in 1968. Built on a 47-or-49-metre (154 or 161 ft) hull with four MM-38 Exocet missiles, a 76 mm gun forward and 40 mm twin guns aft, these vessels have a top speed of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph).