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Author : Great Britain. Air Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Royal Air Force War Manual written by Great Britain. Air Council and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Laming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854093257
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Royal Air Force Manual written by Tim Laming and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Falconer
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9781785210846
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Royal Air Force 100 Technical Innovations Manual written by Jonathan Falconer and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the RAF’s first 100 years, this Haynes Manual showcases the top 100 technical innovations that have been used and/or devised by the Service over the past century--some large like the variable geometry (or swing) wing, and others that were small but still vital like the dambusters’ hand-held wooden triangulation bomb sight--and describes how they worked.
Author : Air University (U.S.). Air War College
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Royal Air Force Manual of Tactical Air Force Operations written by Air University (U.S.). Air War College and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neville Parton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781441114563
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (145 download)
Download or read book The Evolution and Impact of Royal Air Force Doctrine 1919-1939 written by Neville Parton and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The part that RAF doctrine played in preparing the Air Force for war has been the subject of considerable criticism, based largely on the RAF's early performance. Little detailed analysis of the actual content of the RAF doctrine has been attempted. This book examines the evolution of this doctrine at the strategic and operational levels over the period 1919-1939, beginning with its RFC and RNAS antecedents from the First World War. Use of consistent methodology allows an effective comparison of three major doctrine publications produced by the Service during the period - RAF Operations Manual, The War Manual of the RAF and the second edition of the same. The RAF has been bitterly criticised for becoming obsessed in the early years with a strategic bombing doctrine. This book presents a scholarly and far more nuanced approach to this doctrine and it tells about the personalities who dominated the early RAF. It also shows how the RAF tried to influence the other services, the politicians and the media - and above all the public.
Author : Richard D. Newton
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700628711
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The RAF and Tribal Control written by Richard D. Newton and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of technological advances and multiplying irregular conflicts, conventional wisdom suggests airpower as the ideal, low-cost means of conducting modern warfare—and the air control method adopted by the British between the two world wars seems to back this up. Swift and precise targeting from above was considered more humane, after all, sparing civilians as well as British soldiers during punitive expeditions in unruly colonial regions. But what conventional wisdom misses, and this book makes clear, is how the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) innovative approach actually worked—relying on British airmen on the ground at least as much as on airborne technology to control restive tribes and villages. The RAF and Tribal Control tells the story of these forgotten airmen, the RAF special service officers who, embedded among local populations and indigenous tribes, collected vital intelligence, developed targets, directed air strikes when necessary, and, perhaps most important, provided personal assessments of airpower’s qualitative effects against primarily guerrilla forces. Airpower is a highly technological endeavor. But in wars where the human dimension takes primacy, Richard Newton reminds us that measuring the effectiveness of air actions requires a qualitative approach that is nearly impossible via overhead sensors. And this is where the RAF special service officers came in—airmen who understood the local cultures and peoples, they served as conduits for information and communication between the colonial administration and the tribes and villages. It was their ground-level contributions that made the integration of airpower into the civilian administration of colonies and mandates possible. This first in-depth account of the RAF special service officers’ role brings to light previously unpublished insights. The RAF and Tribal Control fills a significant gap in the history of air warfare. In doing so, the book dispels the notion that airpower alone is effective in small wars and irregular conflicts—and reveals the importance of the “boots-on-the-ground” human component in waging unconventional air warfare, both in the days of the RAF’s vaunted air control and in our own time.
Author : Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Royal Air Force Manual of Army Co-operation written by Great Britain. Royal Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Royal Air Force Manual, Flying written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Air Force Manual written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Air Ministry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Royal Air Force Flying Training Manual. Part 2 ... written by Great Britain. Air Ministry and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Flying written by Great Britain. Royal Air Force and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Engineering Manual for the Royal Air Force written by Great Britain. Royal Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lieutenant Colonel Usaf David J Dean
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781478379393
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (793 download)
Download or read book The Air Force Role in Low-Intensity Conflict written by Lieutenant Colonel Usaf David J Dean and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grew from an opportunity to study a third world air force fighting an externally supported insurgency. The players were the Royal Moroccan Air Force and the Polisario, the latter trying to wrest control of the Western Sahara from the Kingdom of Morocco. The United States has also been a player in the Morocco-Polisario war as the source of much of Morocco's war material, especially the weapons used by the Royal Moroccan Air Force. Help from the United States was especially important when the Polisario deployed Soviet-built SA-6 surface-to-air missiles to counter the growing effectiveness of the Royal Moroccan Air Force. For many reasons, the United States and the US Air Force were not able to assist the Moroccans effectively. The Morocco-Polisario-US scenario that provides the basis for this study was a tiny aspect of the US foreign and military policy in the early 1980s. But it shows a political-military problem that deserves a good deal of thought now. That problem simply stated is: How is the United States going to exert political-military influence in the third world during the next twenty years? Clearly, overall US influence in the third world will be a combination of political, military, economic, and social activity. But the military, in many cases, will be the most visible form of assistance, and one upon which the recipient nation will depend for immediate results. Are the military components as instruments of national policy able to act effectively in the third world? If not, what needs to be done? The US Air Force (and the other services) needs to consider the question of effective assistance to third world countries as part of a basic shift in strategic thinking. Our primary strategic planning effort has been to insert large numbers of US ground and air forces into an area such as the Persian Gulf to accomplish our policy objectives. That planning effort must continue, but with the understanding that inserting a major US force in any third world region is extremely unlikely, both for domestic political reasons and because potential host nations are reluctant to support large US forces. Our primary strategic focus for planning needs to shift to providing effective leverage for third world friends and allies. That leverage can be in the form of arms sales, training, doctrine, or even small specialized forces. But providing leverage depends on effective planning that builds the data base which allows us to pinpoint the host country's needs and capabilities. Developing that kind of expertise in the USAF, and in the other services, will be a difficult and frustrating long-term proposition. The Air Force must recognize the need for a change and must act upon it. Planning to exert effective political-military influence in the third world may not be a glamorous task, but it will be the name of the game for the next twenty years and beyond. This book offers some ideas in that regard.
Author : Andy Saunders
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9780857335081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Battle of Britain July to October 1940 - RAF Operations Manual written by Andy Saunders and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defeat of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain was thanks largely to a highly effective support network that lay behind the Spitfire and Hurricane squadrons of RAF Fighter Command. Technical, physical and organizational systems established in Britain before the war ensured that when the time came the nation was able to defend itself against any would-be aggressor. The Battle of Britain Manual describes and illustrates the 'nuts and bolts' of how Britain - and the RAF in particular - fought back against the Luftwaffe in 1940, and won. It also shows how the Luftwaffe was organized and how it, too, rose to the challenge. Individual chapters review the organization of the RAF and the Luftwaffe in 1940, from high command down to squadron level; the integrated air defense network (radar, fighter control, ack-ack, balloons, Observer Corps, plotting rooms and RAF airfields); the technology behind radar and radio telephony; the aircraft of the RAF and Luftwaffe, their weapons and their tactics; and useful appendices that tell you where you can see airworthy Battle of Britain aircraft, museums that feature Battle of Britain exhibits, Battle of Britain-related organizations, and useful address and websites.
Author : John Buckley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019251895X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Royal Air Force written by John Buckley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world. Formed to serve a strategic need in the most intensive war that Britain had then fought, the RAF continued in the inter-war era to play a key role in the political and diplomatic world, and in defending the Empire. During the Second World War, the RAF was pivotal in defending Britain from invasion in the Battle of Britain, and then in leading the assault on the Axis powers, most notably through the contentious bomber offensive against Germany. In the post-war world, the RAF adapted and developed into a force to meet the needs of the United Kingdom during the Cold War, the retreat from Empire, and most recently in the move to coalition warfare against low intensity threats, all against a backdrop of diminishing resources and shifting priorities. This is the story of the RAF over the first century of its existence: how it has confronted the many challenges and threats it has faced — from the Luftwaffe in 1940, through the spectre of nuclear holocaust in the Cold War, to the fight against terrorism in the 21st century — and how it has contributed to the defence of the United Kingdom throughout that period.
Author : Air Ministry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Royal Air Force Manual of Flying written by Air Ministry and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: