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Several years ago, the Air Force recognized that it needed to have on hand a new type of aircraft designed expressly to support counterinsurgency missions and to be operated and maintained by allies and partners. The "test case" was the new Afghan Air Force. The U.S. Air Force published a request
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Date:
7/10/2012
It appears that the Light Air Support program is the latest casualty of the Pentagon's notoriously complicated acquisition process. The program was supposed to acquire 20 small "non-developmental" aircraft for use by Afghan pilots in conducting reconnaissance and ground attacks against the Taliban
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Date:
4/16/2012
The U.S. Air Force recently announced that it was going to reissue a request for proposals for the Light Air Support (LAS) aircraft. This was supposed to be a relatively simple, off-the-shelf aircraft that could be used by U.S. allies such as the fledgling Afghan Air Force. To allow enough time
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Date:
4/9/2012
A couple of years ago, the Air Force got the idea of acquiring a fleet of light air support (LAS) aircraft to use in low intensity conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan where operating conditions were relatively primitive and the air defense environment benign. The LAS could be provided to other
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Date:
2/29/2012


