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ORIGINS AND APPLICABILITY OF FIGHTER TACTICS

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Date Issued:
1986
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A new form of combat, aerial warfare, made its debut in the twentieth century. Unlike land and naval services, the air fighters of the twentieth century had no long tradition of accepted combat practices to follow. The successful air fighters of World War One found that competitive aircraft flown by pilots using solid basic fighter maneuvers in a sound aggressive way were the essential elements for victory in air combat. Modern fighter pilots have discovered through bitter experience that, despite changing technology, the principles of air combat discovered in the early twentieth century are axiomatic for success in the aerial combat arena. Fighter air superiority, gained through application of these basic principles, is essential if air forces are to carry out their tactical missions of reconnaissance, close air support, and interdiction.
Title: THE ORIGINS AND APPLICABILITY OF FIGHTER TACTICS.
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Name(s): KEENAN, JOHN ROBERT.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
O'Sullivan, John, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1986
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 120 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: A new form of combat, aerial warfare, made its debut in the twentieth century. Unlike land and naval services, the air fighters of the twentieth century had no long tradition of accepted combat practices to follow. The successful air fighters of World War One found that competitive aircraft flown by pilots using solid basic fighter maneuvers in a sound aggressive way were the essential elements for victory in air combat. Modern fighter pilots have discovered through bitter experience that, despite changing technology, the principles of air combat discovered in the early twentieth century are axiomatic for success in the aerial combat arena. Fighter air superiority, gained through application of these basic principles, is essential if air forces are to carry out their tactical missions of reconnaissance, close air support, and interdiction.
Identifier: 14301 (digitool), FADT14301 (IID), fau:11109 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.
Subject(s): Fighter planes--Piloting
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