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Some of the more important considerations are the desire to eliminate enemy camps and secure areas (safe havens), to obtain better vertical visibility in heavily canopied jungle for the purposes of reconnaissance and interdiction, to minimize cover along transportation routes to prevent VC ambush, and to destroy trees and vegetation surrounding special forces bases and communication routes to aid in base security measures and to preclude sabotage of communication facilities. Crop destruction operations were undertaken with the hope of denying the Viet Cong valuable foodstuffs by destroying crops and food resources in the immediate area. This would force the enemy to move from place to place to obtain food and would not allow him time to perfect his camp defences or to develop long-range offensive programs. 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A probing for target alternatives showed destruction of hard-to-replace vehicles could be more effective than \"cratering a road, interdicting a rail line, or destroying a bridge.\" Since enemy strategy emphasized prolonging the war by keeping the U.S. out of the Hanoi\/Haiphong region, CINCPAC enumerated methods of attacking his air defence system, including MIG air bases and aircraft on the ground.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePLANS AND POLICIES: Enemy Strategy - US Objectives - Anti-Inflation Operations - Air Operations -   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAIR FORCE RESOURCES: - Deployment Plans - New Tactical Fighter Wing - A-37 - F-4D - O-2A - F-Ill Aircraft - RB-58 Aircraft\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAIR SUPPORT OPERATIONS: Major CAS Operations - SAM HOUSTON (18 Jan-5 Apr) - THAYER II (25 Oct 66-12 Feb 67) - JUNCTION CITY (22 Feb-16 May) - ENTERPRISE - HICKORY - Enemy Reaction - ARC LIGHT PROGRAM - Interdiction - TINY TIM - POKER DICE Program - Overflights - U-Tapao Security - ARC LIGHT Effectiveness - U Reconnaissance Operations - Classified Projects - Truce Activity - 7AF Reconnaissance Study   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSEARCH AND RESCUE - Combat Rescue Mission - Personnel Saved - Combat Aircrew Recovery Aircraft - SAR Limitations\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHERBICIDE OPERATIONS - Herbicide Shortage - Sortie Rate - Project PINK ROSE - DMZ Defoliation - Effectiveness of Operations\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE - In-Country Operations - Out-Country Operations\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTACTICAL AIRLIFT OPERATIONS - Mission Accomplishments - C-7A Caribou - C-123 Provider - Communications - Aerial Port Operations - Support of Ground Forces\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBASE DEFENSE - Security Measures - AC-47 Aircraft - Base Attacks - Binh Thuy Air Base - Pleiku-Holloway Airfield - Da Nang Air Base - Bien Hoa Air Base - Antiaircraft Defense\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eROLLING THUNDER - Program Objectives - Targeting Concepts - Northeast Quadrant - Lines of Communication - Industrial Targets - Thermal Power Plants - POL Facilities - Airfields - All-Weather Bombing Capability - Walleye Glide Bomb - Assessment\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNORTH VIETNAM AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM: Assessment - MiGs - Antiaircraft - Surface-to-Air Missiles\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVNAF Resources \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e161 pages - in english\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"www.skyshelf.eu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42934226485418,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/6901\/4698\/products\/original_dc3bcb8b-1e57-4e97-b95f-03859bef4839.jpg?v=1652264178"},{"product_id":"buckingham-william-usaf-and-herbicides-in-sea-1961-1971","title":"Buckingham, William - USAF and herbicides in SEA 1961-1971 (ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOperation Ranch Hand - The Air Force and Herbicides in Southeast Asia 1961-1971\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam A. Buckingham Jr\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffice of Air Force History, Washington DC 1982\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of aviation's more unusual military applications occurred in Southeast Asia, where American and Vietnamese planes sprayed large areas of Vietnam and Laos with herbicides in an effort to deny cover and conceal- mei.t to the enemy, and to destroy his food supply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1961, President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam asked the United states to conduct aerial herbicide spraying in his country. In August of that year, the South Vietnamese Air Force initiated herbicide operations with American help. But Diem's request launched a policy debate in the White House and the State and Defense Departments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt last, in November 1961, President Kennedy approved the use of herbicides, but only as a limited experiment requiring South Vietnamese participation and the mission-by-mission approval of the United States Embassy, the Military Assistance Command Vietnam, and South Vietnam's government. Operation Ranch Hand, the designation for the program, began in January 1962. Gradually limitations were relaxed and the spraying became more frequent, and covered larger areas. By the time it ended nine years later, some eighteen million gallons of chemicals had been sprayed on an estimated twenty percent of South Vietnam's -jungles, including thirty-six percent of its mangrove forests. The Air Force also carried out herbicide operations in Laos from December 1965 to\/September 1969 with the permission of the Laotian government.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is a model study of the process by which military policy was made in the Southeast Asia War. Major Buckingham relates the intense controversy, both within the government and among the public, over the military, political, and ecological effects of the program. He connects policy to the operations, showing how pressure from scientist5 and disagreements among government policy- makers and military leaders imposed limitations on the spraying program. He explores the technical difficulties in using herbicides: the right chemical agents had to be delivered in sufficient quantity it the optimal time of the growing season, only against certain crops and categories of vegetation, and only in areas where the destruction provided harm to the enemy and no danger to friendly or neutral populations. And-Major Buckingham pays tribute to the bravery of the Ranch Hand airmen who flew their planes 'low and s!ow' over territory often heavily defended by the enemy. Remarkably, Ranch Hand's UC-123 Providers took more than seven thousand hits from ground fire, but lost only a 1.w crews and aircraft. Indeed, the most celebrated of the planes, \"Patches,\" survived over six-hundred hits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e257 pages – in English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9TdDkteVRMM\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZyyE5Fykd80\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"www.skyshelf.eu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42934226550954,"sku":"392DG1972EN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/6901\/4698\/products\/original_634870b9-291c-4755-8910-ae0d9084bbf5.jpg?v=1652264179"},{"product_id":"celeski-joseph-special-air-warfare-and-the-secret-war-in-laos-air-commandos-1964-1975","title":"Celeski, Joseph - Special Air Warfare and the Secret War in Laos - Air Commandos 1964–1975","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial Air Warfare and the Secret War in Laos - Air Commandos 1964–1975\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoseph D. Celeski, Colonel, US Army, Retired\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAir University Press , Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs with all applications of air power, there are different ways to apply force, depending on the characteristics of the enemy, the geography, and the objectives.\u003cbr\u003eFrom assisting and training Royal Lao forces to fight the Pathet Lao to actual combat missions, USAF Special Forces have conducted sustained operations for over a decade in Laos. In a totally covert manner.\u003cbr\u003eSoon, the USAF felt the need to deploy a full combat unit, capable of operating as a stand-alone fighting force in the counter-insurgency environment of a foreign country. Furthermore, the entire unit, not just the aircraft, had to be prepared to operate under 'plausible deniability' cover. Operation Jungle Jim was born. It helped build Laotian air power and its forward controllers.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1964, in total disregard of the cease-fire agreement, the Pathet Lao and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) committed numerous violations. One of the responses chosen was to place additional US military advisors in the five regional commands of the Lao army to improve the combat readiness of the Lao forces. Project 404 was the designated name for a variety of personnel programmes to strengthen the military attaché offices in Vientiane and to provide support for the administration of the US Military Assistance Programme (MAP) and other advisory projects. Project 404 circumvented the prohibition on US military personnel serving directly in Laos by seconding service personnel as \"assistant attachés\" within the embassy staffing structure. The author also refers to Operation 404 Palace Dog. In order to improve the efficiency of the Laotian Air Force, Air Operations Centres (AOCs) were created when each Laotian T-28 squadron started to work at its operation site. The 56th Special Operations Wing - created in Thailand - was called upon to operate intensively in Laos, among other things to monitor the traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Its helicopters and light aircraft deployed a network of several hundred seismic sensors to monitor movements as part of Operation Igloo White and Operation Dump Truck. 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Anthony, USAF\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffice of Air Force History - March 1973\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis historical report is the fifteenth of a series of studies dealing with Air Force plans and operations in Southeast Asia prepared by the Office of Air Force History. The author, a Master Navigator was formerly a member of the Air Force Academy history faculty. He also served a tour of duty in the Directorate of Operations, Headquarters, 7\/13 Air Force, at Udorn, Thailand, and is well qualified to tell the story of nearly a decade of Air Force night operations in Southeast Asia. During the course of his research, he interviewed over a dozen pilots and crewmen who flew night missions along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and in North Vietnam. They provided him invaluable information on the problems of operating at night and the tactics they devised against an elusive enemy in a hostile, jungle environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his history, the author recalls the pioneering efforts of the Farm Gate detachment and the start of night flare operations. He describes the equipment available at the time, modifications that were subsequently made to improve effectiveness, and the successes and failures, that were experienced. He discusses the introduction of new aircraft and avionics, examines the role of the slow as well as the fast movers, and also reviews the operations of the invaluable gunships. 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The Costruzioni Meccaniche ed Aeronautiche Società per Azioni (CMASA) built 129 Dornier Wal flying boats, mainly because of the terms of the Versailles Treaty. Some of them performed famous record flights.\u003cbr\u003eCMASA was then bought by FIAT and turned to military production. It designed and built in series, during WW2, the RS14, a twin engined floatplane, which is described in some detail here. In 1937, FIAT C.M.A.S.A. built the prototype of a twin engined bomber landplane called B.G.A. Other projects included a six engined passenger flying boat, called J.S. due to carry out a regular passenger service between Italy and Latin America for LATI airlines.Its development was interrupted by the war. \u003cbr\u003eAnother very ambitious project by Ing. Stiavelli was the speed record monoplane CS15 (Corsa Stiavelli). With its 2250 hp liquid-cooled engine and its counter-rotating propellers, it was designed to reach 800 km\/h and bring the world speed record back to Italy.\u003cbr\u003eToday, the small town of Marina di Pisa has is a peaceful seaside resort. Only a few very old people still remember that aircraft engines once roared there and that sea spray trails spurted in the wake of flying boats and floatplanes taking off on the sea.\u003cbr\u003eThe author, Prof. Enrico Manfredi, was born in Cagliari in 1938; he graduated in Industrial Engineering (mechanics) at Pisa University. He started his career at Livorno Naval Academy, went later to the Ateneo pisano, which awarded him the Order of the Cherubino. He then worked at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Pisa University, until retirement. He did research in Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Nuclear Engineering His latest project is 'Aerospace gear testing.' 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This left a need for a separate form of international cooperation on a regional American basis.\u003cbr\u003eThe Habana Convention on Commercial Aviation was one of several conventions adopted at Habana on February 20,1928, by the delegates to the Sixth International Conference of American States.\u003cbr\u003eThe Havana Convention was modeled after the Paris Convention and it applied exclusively to private aircraft. Government aircraft were not included. \u003cbr\u003eThe convention includes provisions relating to marking of aircraft, landing facilities, prohibited transport, competency of flying personnel, registration of aircraft, prohibited areas and the rights of each state to prescribe the route to be followed over its territory by the aircraft of other States. The convention was designed to meet conditions existing in the Western Hemisphere for aerial navigation. Provisions to bring about uniformity in laws and regulations regarding aerial navigation are included. \u003cbr\u003eThe states obligate themselves to cooperate in \u003cbr\u003e(a) the centralizing and distribution of meteorological information; \u003cbr\u003e(b) the publication of uniform aeronautical charts, as well as the establishment of a uniform system of signals;\u003cbr\u003e(c) the use of radiotelegraph in aerial navigation, establishment of the necessary radiotelegraph stations and the observance of the inter-American and international radiotelegraph regulations. \u003cbr\u003eTh states will aim to uniformity of laws and regulations governing aerial navigation.\u003cbr\u003eIt recognized that every State had complete and exclusive sovereignty over the airspace above its territory and adjacent territorial waters.  Each contracting state undertakes in time of peace to grant freedom of innocent passage above its territory to the private aircraft of other contracting states. However, each of the contracting states retains the right to prohibit, for public interest, flights by aircraft of other contracting states over fixed zones of its territory, with no distinction being made in this respect between its own commercial aircraft and those of other contracting states. \u003cbr\u003eThis convention provided a legal basis for the business development of US airlines throught North and South America in the 1930's. Clauses enabled U.S. owned airlines to freely operate services within North and South America. Commercial aircraft shall be permitted to discharge or take on at different airports in a contracting state passengers or cargo from or destined to points beyond the borders of such state. 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As a result, the U.S. government invited 55 states to participate in an international conference on civil aviation in Chicago in 1944. Delegates from these states traveled to Chicago at great personal risk, as many countries were still under occupation. On December 7, 1944, 52 of them signed the new Convention on International Civil Aviation, known as the Chicago Convention. It laid the foundation for peaceful air navigation worldwide and created ICAO.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis international convention has 96 articles and is composed of four parts: air navigation, the functioning of ICAO, international air transport and special provisions on the settlement of disputes, cases of war, etc. The Convention is the first of its kind in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt confirms national sovereignty in air regulation, deals with violations of airspace and their interception, establishes the rules of the air, rules for aircraft registration, safety. It clarifies the rights and duties of signatory countries with regard to international transport by air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe convention has been supplemented with annexes dealing with 18 specific subjects.\u003cbr\u003e1. Licensing;\u003cbr\u003e2. Rules of the air ;\u003cbr\u003e3. Meteorology;\u003cbr\u003e4. Aeronautical charts ;\u003cbr\u003e5. Measuring units in air\/ground communications ;\u003cbr\u003e6. Technical operation of aircraft ;\u003cbr\u003e7. Nationality and registration marks ;\u003cbr\u003e8. Certificates of airworthiness;\u003cbr\u003e9. Facilitation;\u003cbr\u003e10. Aeronautical Telecommunications ;\u003cbr\u003e11. Air traffic services ;\u003cbr\u003e12. Search and rescue ;\u003cbr\u003e13. Accident Investigation ;\u003cbr\u003e14. Aerodromes ;\u003cbr\u003e15. Aeronautical information services ;\u003cbr\u003e16. Aircraft noise ;\u003cbr\u003e17. Safety and protection of international civil aviation against unlawful acts ;\u003cbr\u003e18. 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The Montreal Convention was signed in 1999 and attempted to standardize the law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Warsaw Convention continues to apply to all international air transport between States that are not parties to the Montreal Convention, or between a State that has ratified the Montreal Convention and a State that is not a party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe principles set out in the Warsaw Convention relate mainly to the carrier's civil liability regime for damage occurring during carriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The carrier is liable for damage arising in case of death, injury or any other bodily harm suffered by a passenger when the accident which caused the damage occurred on board the aircraft or during any of the operations of embarking and disembarking. The air passenger is entitled to compensation of up to 16,600 SDRs for the personal injury suffered. The carrier is obliged to issue the passenger with a passenger ticket which must contain a number of details (place, date, destination, etc.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. The carrier is liable for damage in the event of destruction, loss or damage to checked baggage or cargo when the event which caused the damage occurred during the air carriage. In case of loss of baggage, compensation is limited to 17 SDRs per kilo of baggage. The carrier is obliged to issue a baggage check.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. The carrier can only be exonerated from this liability if it proves either that the victim was exclusively at fault, or that it took all measures which could reasonably be required to avoid the damage, or that it was impossible to take such measures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe document proposed here is the original instrument in English deposited at the United States Library of Congress; it is followed by the list of countries that have ratified this Convention with the dates of ratification and entry into force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e28 pages - in English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"www.skyshelf.eu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42934289268906,"sku":"241DG1929EN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/6901\/4698\/files\/WarsawConvention_1_e7e71426-f478-4a8f-8117-9ac18af2b78a.jpg?v=1730969901"},{"product_id":"usitc-business-jet-aircraft-industry-2012","title":"USITC - Business Jet aircraft industry (2012) (Ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003eUSITC - Business Jet aircraft industry (2012)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStructure and factors affecting competitiveness\u003cbr\u003eUnited States Trade International Commision\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis report describes and analyzes factors shaping the competitiveness of the U.S. business jet industry during 2006–11, as well as the industry’s structure worldwide. 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The author has added detailed sections on Italian anti-aircraft defense, Austro-Hungarian aviation, maps and insignia, offering us one of the few complete books in English on this subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first part, devoted to the Italian forces, explains that at the beginning of the hostilities, the Italian air component was fully integrated into the army. It included a few squadrons equipped with Nieuport, Farman and Blériot, as well as balloon units attached to the artillery. The Navy also had its air component with two airships and 14 seaplanes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1915 this component became independent and became the Corpo Aeronautico Militare. The first Caproni bombers make their appearance, as well as the Caudron, Macchi, Voisin and Aviatik fighters (German, but manufactured under license); this new air force also uses seaplanes and soon takes control of the navy's air component in 1916. 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This study evaluates the factors that resulted in poor quality assurance and poor aircraft quality within German aviation manufacturing that contributed to the Luftwaffe's failure. Worker shortages eventually led the German aviation industry to shift aircraft production to assembly lines and used unskilled workers that reduced aircraft quality. This study also examines the Allied bombing of German aviation industry factories resulting in the wide distribution of aircraft production, and further decreased aircraft quality. Finally, this study examines slave labor in the aircraft industry and the effects that sabotage and poor workmanship had on German aircraft quality during the war.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeyword     German Armed Forces; World War, 1939-1945; World War Two; WWII; Quality assurance; Luftwaffe; Aeronautics; Aircraft; Aircraft industry; Bombing, Aerial; Slave labor; Campaigns, Military\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeries : Command and General Staff College (CGSC) MMAS thesis\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocus Program : Military History\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher : Fort Leavenworth, KS : US Army Command and General Staff College,\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDate, Original : 2018-06-15\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDate, Digital : 2018-06-15\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResource Type : Textual\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat : PDF; Adobe Acrobat Reader required; 102 p.; 1.44 MB.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease statement : Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the student-authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. 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