Forward air control is the provision of guidance to close air support (CAS) aircraft intended to ensure that their attack hits the intended target and...

Forward air controllers (FACs) played a significant part in the Vietnam War from the very start. Largely relegated to airborne duty by the constraints...

simultaneously conducting air traffic control, fire support, command, control, and communications and forward air control. They deploy with air and ground forces...

The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known as The Ravens, were fighter pilots (special operations capable) unit used as forward air controllers (FACs)...

techniques by the conflict's end. New techniques, such as the use of forward air control to guide CAS aircraft and identifying invasion stripes, also emerged...

Circle. Forward air control "Operations Officer – Defence Jobs Australia". Defencejobs.gov.au. Retrieved 19 July 2014. "The RCAF Theatre Air Control System:...

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Forward air control operations during World War II were begun as an ad hoc expedient to wartime conditions. Forward air control during the war began with...

Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section...

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Forward air controllers in the Korean War were prominent throughout the conflict. United Nations forces depended upon improvised U.S. forward air control...

The Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standardisation Unit (JFACTSU) is a training unit located at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, England. The unit...

The Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (IJAAS) or Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (IJAAF; Japanese: 大日本帝國陸軍航空部隊, romanized: Dainippon Teikoku Rikugun...

navigation, read the coordinates to point the target fire artillery and forward air control attack enemy, reconnaissance tactics, rock climbing, SERE, small...

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used for forward air control (FAC) and psychological operations (PSYOPS) by the US military between 1967 and 2010. In 1966, the United States Air Force (USAF)...

Marines that specialise in air assault operations, amphibious and coastal raiding with commando styles, forward air control, irregular warfare, long-range...

counter-insurgency (COIN) combat, and one of its primary missions was as a forward air control (FAC) aircraft. It can carry up to 3,200 lb (1,450 kg) of external...

transport, casualty evacuation, counter-insurgency and light attack, forward air control, patrol and reconnaissance. The term 'Britten-Norman Defender' refers...

Air Control Squadron (623 ACS) is an operational unit of the United States Air Force assigned to the 18th Wing. The 623d is based out of Kadena Air Base...

Tactical Air Command (TAC) to TAC-gained units in the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve. The type was assigned to the FAC (Forward Air Control) role...

TF-9J trainer model saw actual combat, having been deployed as a Forward Air Control aircraft during the Vietnam War. Following its withdrawal from active...

trainer. This variant, designated KO-1, was intended to be used in the forward air control and counter-insurgency (COIN) roles. Development was conducted in...

Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is the aerial service branch of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) responsible for controlling and defending the airspace...

No. 4 Forward Air Control Flight was a Royal Australian Air Force forward air control training unit. The Flight was formed on 1 April 1970 at RAAF Base...

Combat Controllers provide a range of capabilities, including Forward Air Control of Offensive Air Support, Landing Zone Reconnaissance, Aviation Meteorology...

Reconnaissance, and Airborne Forward Air Control." The 2009 Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance program was born out of the need for a new close air support aircraft...

configuration. The O-2A version was used in forward air control missions, often in conjunction with a ground forward air controller and a radio operator, maintenance...

A United States Air Force air control squadron is a group assigned to provide combat air control services in the form of radar, surveillance identification...

air control system for United States Air Forces in Europe and Allied Air Forces Central Europe. The wing employed a mobile radar network and forward air...