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- Controlling close support to ground forces [r]: Doctrine for deconflicting and activelu controlling all forms of kinetic and nonkinetic fires support to troops close enough to the enemy that there is a significant danger of fratricide or degrading friendly capabilities [e]
- Close air support [r]: Weapons delivered, by aircraft, in close proximity to friendly forces that are in contact with enemy forces; direct support of ground combat requiring extreme care to avoid fratricide [e]
- Il-2 Shturmovik [r]: The first successful heavily armored, heavily gunned close air support aircraft, optimized for anti-tank warfare, and the archetype for a long series of attack aircraft with similar missions [e]
- Ju-87 Stuka [r]: German WWII dive bomber that gave excellent close air support in the early blitzkriegs, but was too slow to survive in the Battle of Britain and against later fighters [e]
- Defensive counter-air [r]: The spectrum of both passive and active air defense measures, including camouflaging and protecting potential targets, electronic warfare; a superset of an integrated air defense system [e]
- Strategic bombing [r]: Strategic strike attacks against the homeland military forces, population and industry of a nation, conducted by manned bomber aircraft [e]