The commanders are asking for more ground
attack aircraft to augment to air strikes and make it more effective.
While the Reapers and the F-16s deployed in Iraq currently are doing the same job--searching for enemy targets and launching weapons the Air Force does not yet consider the unmanned
attack aircraft to be in competition with conventional jet fighters.
The Qiang 5 -- known in the West as the ''Fantan'' or A-5 -- has been China's low-altitude
attack aircraft since its first successful flight in 1965, according to Jane's.
The official reason for the transferal of
attack aircraft from the al-Nayrab Airbase to the Kuweires Airbase is unknown at this time.
A statement by the Joint Task Force said "the international US-led coalition planes carried out 16 strikes against targets for Daash in Syria, while carried out 20 strikes in Iraq, using bombers,
attack aircraft, fighter jets and drones." The statement noted that strikes in Syria centered near Shaddadi, Raqqa and Manbej, and in Iraq the strikes were near al-Baghdadi, Baiji, Fallujah, Kazak, Mosul, Qayyarah, Ramadi, and Sultan Abdullah, which destroyed car bombs, weapons and combat outposts, tactical units, and tunnels, and prevented Daash of progressing in the battlefield, and the centers of command and control "./end
Other pending contracts include the Mirage 2000D
attack aircraft, and a naval anti-mine drone.
Summary: Russia is set to deliver 36 Yak-130 "trainer"
attack aircraft to Syria, according to a newspaper report Monday.
Russian
attack aircraft flies close to US Navy destroyer
The squadron acquired the AD-5 Skyraider
attack aircraft and was redesignated Marine Attack Squadron 321 on 15 May 1958.
Earlier this year Northrop Grumman began assembling the US Navy's first EA-18G, the service's next-generation electronic
attack aircraft, which is due to begin replacing the EA-6B Prowler (pictured) by the end of the decade.
Chief executive John Weston insists that despite delays in confirming a number of orders for the training or light
attack aircraft the prospects for future sales of the Hawk ``remain good''.
F15 and F16 ground
attack aircraft are expected to fly from there.
"We have more that 300 Nato aircraft ready for operations of which more than 200 are
attack aircraft.
