Author: Michael

As a former USAF special operations helicopter pilot, I can attest that threat rings are a thing.
Flying low-level at night, into a high-threat area, demands discerning areas where you can flying under a radar’s ‘line of sight’ based on terrain obstacles in front of the radar’s coverage.
Today, this work is done automatically and streamed into the cockpit for real-time air defense threat awareness for aircrews, based on aircraft altitude and IADS unit placement.

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From strikes by uncrewed aerial systems launching precision Hellfire missiles in Afghanistan and Iraq to U.S. Navy ships firing missiles against Houthi targets in the Middle East over the last few years, the United States has led the world in precision strike capabilities for decades. For more than a generation, the United States maintained a healthy lead in the most sophisticated military technologies, especially those that enabled precision strike, and its large advantage arguably deterred many potential rivals from symmetric competition.

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