Because when in need, a FAC can call in any available coalition aircraft for support.sfarrar33 wrote:
quick question though, why was a brit telling the american planes who too shoot and where to fly etc? (try to avoid the easy jokes)
Thats the way it works... 9 line medevacs/air support/artillery/9 line uxo/9line ied/9linecorpsesfarrar33 wrote:
fair enough then he should go to jail and admit formal apologyusmarine2007 wrote:
The forward air controller (FAC) was British.sfarrar33 wrote:
err what?
as far as i know the planes were hunting for a specific target, which they didn't find, so they were given "free reign" (though i'm not entirely sure what that means in military terms, but i'll guess it means 'fly around the area and shoot bad guys and hopefully find the original target')
they then found the british tanks and requested permission to open fire, the air controller then miss-informed them and the course of events unfolded as they did
where in this was a brit asking for air support?
quick question though, why was a brit telling the american planes who too shoot and where to fly etc? (try to avoid the easy jokes)
its all a shared tasking they might be our birds in the air, but they are free game if a unit gets on the net and requests them. Once they get that air asset, they control the unit and guide it to where they need it.
For instance there is an area in iraq that if we need a medical evac the medevac unit is ukranian. There are some rules to using that sort of thing and normally a liason handles most of it. I'm only a trigger puller so I cannot tell you exactly how it works. I just know I have had to call in some Aussies EOD cats to blow some shit up.
makes sense i spose
cheers for answering
cheers for answering