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Modern USMC Air Power - Aircraft and Units of the 'Flying Leathernecks' (Paperback)
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Modern USMC Air Power - Aircraft and Units of the 'Flying Leathernecks' (Paperback)
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As America's expeditionary force-in-readiness, the US Marine Corps
operates an eclectic mix of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, tiltrotor and
unmanned aircraft to support the marine rifleman on the ground. The
first two decades of the 21st century have seen an almost complete
transformation of the marine air wings, as Cold War-era legacy
aircraft yield to digital-age replacements. In Harpia's first book
dedicated to a North American air arm, Joe Copalman explains the
significance of each aircraft transition in the Marine Corps over
the previous 20 years - community by community - on the Marine
Air-Ground Task Force and its ability to conduct amphibious and
expeditionary warfare. While some of these transitions, like that
of the KC-130T to KC-130J and AH-1W to AH-1Z, have been
incremental, evolutionary steps up, others like the tandem-rotor
CH-46 Sea Knight to the tiltrotor MV-22 Osprey and the introduction
of the F-35 Lightning II to replace all three of the Marine Corps'
tactical jets have revolutionised the way the service fights. In
addition to introducing newer, vastly more capable and connected
aircraft into its air wings, the Marine Corps has also invested
heavily in keeping its remaining legacy fleets at the cutting edge
of lethality and survivability throughout the final days of each
type's service. Utilising a before-and-after approach, Copalman
guides the reader through every transition in Modern USMC Air
Power, examining what each legacy aircraft brought to the fight,
and how the service's newer platforms have improved upon those
capabilities, especially when aided by new constructs like
precision-guided ordnance and digital interoperability.
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