Why Army Helicopters Are Launching From a Navy Ship
is acting as a floating base for Army attack helicopters./ The helicopters could use the ship as an outpost to counter swarms of Iranian boats./ The same concept was used in the 1980s in a little known operation known as Prime Chance./ to send a not too subtle message to Iran. Army Apache Guardian helicopters are practicing flying off the USS , an expeditionary landing base ship stationed in the Persian Gulf. can refuel and rearm attack helicopters, setting the services up for the same kind of joint military operation last performed in the ...
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