This Issue Brief examines DOD’s four largest tactical aircraft modernization programs. The background section provides a brief description of each program, and a discussion of how tactical aircraft fit into the military air operations: the missions they typically perform and how they contrast to longer-range combat aircraft.
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This Issue Brief examines DOD’s four largest tactical aircraft modernization programs. The background section provides a brief description of each program, and a discussion of how tactical aircraft fit into the military air operations: the missions they typically perform and how they contrast to longer-range combat aircraft.
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Bolkcom, Christopher.Tactical Aircraft Modernization: Issues for Congress,
report,
December 15, 2004;
Washington D.C..
(https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs7828/:
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