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Rhodesian Fire Force 1966-80
Taschenbuch von Kerrin Cocks
Sprache: Englisch

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Fire Force as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Visionary RhAF and Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) officers expanded on the idea of a 'vertical envelopment' of the enemy, with the 20mm cannon being the principal weapon of attack, mounted in an Alouette III K-Car ('Killer car'), supported by ground troops deployed from G-Cars (Alouette III troop-carrying gunships and latterly Bell 'Hueys') and parachuted from DC-3 Dakotas. In support would be a propeller-driven ground-attack aircraft armed with front guns, pods of napalm, white phosphorus rockets and a variety of Rhodesian-designed bombs; on call would be Canberra bombers, Hawker Hunter and Vampire jets. In spite of the overwhelming number of enemy pitted against them, Rhodesian Fire Forces accounted for thousands of enemy guerrillas, with a kill ratio exceeding 80:1. At the end of the war, ZANLA generals admitted their army could not have survived another year in the field-in no small part due to the ruthless efficiency of the Fire Forces, described by Charles D. Melson, the Chief Historian of the U.S. Marine Corps, as the ultimate "killing machine."
Fire Force as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Visionary RhAF and Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) officers expanded on the idea of a 'vertical envelopment' of the enemy, with the 20mm cannon being the principal weapon of attack, mounted in an Alouette III K-Car ('Killer car'), supported by ground troops deployed from G-Cars (Alouette III troop-carrying gunships and latterly Bell 'Hueys') and parachuted from DC-3 Dakotas. In support would be a propeller-driven ground-attack aircraft armed with front guns, pods of napalm, white phosphorus rockets and a variety of Rhodesian-designed bombs; on call would be Canberra bombers, Hawker Hunter and Vampire jets. In spite of the overwhelming number of enemy pitted against them, Rhodesian Fire Forces accounted for thousands of enemy guerrillas, with a kill ratio exceeding 80:1. At the end of the war, ZANLA generals admitted their army could not have survived another year in the field-in no small part due to the ruthless efficiency of the Fire Forces, described by Charles D. Melson, the Chief Historian of the U.S. Marine Corps, as the ultimate "killing machine."
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: ab 1949
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 72
ISBN-13: 9781910294055
ISBN-10: 1910294055
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cocks, Kerrin
Hersteller: Helion & Company
Maße: 294 x 207 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Kerrin Cocks
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.02.2015
Gewicht: 0,322 kg
preigu-id: 123854436
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: ab 1949
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 72
ISBN-13: 9781910294055
ISBN-10: 1910294055
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cocks, Kerrin
Hersteller: Helion & Company
Maße: 294 x 207 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Kerrin Cocks
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.02.2015
Gewicht: 0,322 kg
preigu-id: 123854436
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