Project CHECO Southeast Asia Report. Jet Forward Air Controllers in SEAsia

Abstract

An important by-product of the war in Southeast Asia was USAF experimentation with new aerial tactics...the use of on-board aircraft in unaccustomed roles...for broad and varied functions. This report outlines the evolution of the jet Forward Air Controllers (FACs) from their initial experimental flight in mid-1967 to their expansion in the Strike Control and Reconnaissance (SCAR) role two years later. Although usually called Forward Air Controllers, the term "jet FACs" will be used throughout this document to distinguish this mission from that of the slow-moving FAC/SCARs flying O-1, O-2A, and OV-10 aircraft

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 15, 1969
Accession Number
ADA486820

Entities

People

  • John Schlight

Organizations

  • Pacific Air Forces

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Asia
  • Combat Operations
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Guidance
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Light Sources
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Navigation
  • North Vietnam
  • Southeast Asia
  • Starlight Scopes
  • Training
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
  • Robotics and Automation.