Wood J. R. T. Operation Dingo: The Rhodesian Raid on Chimoio and Tembuй 1977 9781912866816

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Автор: Wood J. R. T. (Дж. Р. Т. Вуд)
Название: Operation Dingo: The Rhodesian Raid on Chimoio and Tembuй 1977
Перевод названия: Дж. Р. Т. Вуд: Операция Динго . Родезийский рейд на Чимойо и Тембуй, 1977 г.
ISBN: 9781912866816
Издательство: Helion & Company
Классификация:

История Африки

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Военная история: после ВМВ

Военные действия и оборона

Сражения и кампании

ISBN-10: 1912866811
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Вес: 0.19 кг.
Дата издания: 19.09.2019
Серия: Africa@war
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 131 b/w photos, 11 b/w ills, 16 maps, 9 colour profiles, 5 colour photos, 3 colour ills
Размер: 212 x 297 x 3
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: The rhodesian raid on chimoio and tembue 1977
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Startling in its innovation and daringly suicidal, Operation Dingo was not only the Fireforce concept writ large but the prototype for all the major Rhodesian airborne attacks on the external bases of Rhodesian African nationalist insurgents in the neighboring territories of Mozambique and Zambia until such operations ceased in late 1979.

Fireforce as a military concept is a vertical envelopment of the enemy (first practiced by SAS paratroopers in Mozambique in 1973), with the 20mm cannon being the principle weapon of attack, mounted in an Alouette III K-Car (Killer car), flown by the air force commander, with the army commander on board directing his ground troops deployed from G-Cars (Alouette III troop-carrying gunships and latterly Bell Hueys in 1979) and parachuted from DC-3 Dakotas. In support would be propeller-driven ground-attack aircraft and on call would be Canberra bombers, Hawker Hunter and Vampire jets.

On 23 November 1977, the Rhodesian Air Force and 184 SAS and RLI paratroopers attacked 10,000 ZANLA cadres based at New Farm, Chimoio, 90 kilometres inside Mozambique. Two days later, the same force attacked 4,000 guerrillas at Tembu , another ZANLA base, over 200 kilometres inside Mozambique, north of Tete on the Zambezi River. Estimates of ZANLA losses vary wildly; however, a figure exceeding 6,000 casualties is realistic. The Rhodesians suffered two dead, eight wounded and lost one aircraft. It would produce the biggest SAS-led external battle of the Rhodesian bush war.

Operation Dingo: The Rhodesian Raid on Chimoio and Tembuй 1977, Wood J. R. T.