Equipping the Air Commando: The Procurement of Commercial Derivative Aircraft for Air Force Special Operations Command (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781288334049)

Airpower the Special Operations Way The F-22 Raptor--America's premier 5th generation air superiority fighter-- has yet to see combat in America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Initial work on the F-22 began back in 1981. Twenty-six years later this cold-war weapon debuted into a world no longer filled with soviet strongmen, but global terrorists, local insurgents and the ever-present improvised explosive device. Clearly, the F-22 is late to need. America's special operations forces--the vanguard in this Global War on Terror--have found a better way to get a hold of the airpower they need to fight their low-tech, ruthless enemies. Following the lead of their Vietnam-era predecessors, these modern day Air Commandos have turned to militarized variants of commercial propeller-driven aircraft to attain the airpower they need, in time to fight the war they're in. Commercial prop planes are the ideal special ops aircraft.

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