The two specialists have at hand a range of electronic equipment to protect the aircraft and attack ground targets.
On July 31, the crew of a U.S. Apache helicopter was successfully evacuated when it was forced to land after coming under attack from ground fire.
There has been speculation that Moscow might at some stage want to deploy ground attack aircraft of its own.
The F15 Strike Eagle is the US's two-seater, ground attack version of its main tactical fighter plane.
They did this with the French-designed Dauphin (PRC Z-9) helicopters by morphing them into ground attack and anti-submarine warfare missions.
The training ground attack left French midfielder Dabo with several cuts and bruises as well as a suspected detached retina.
The army is now planning a ground attack on the Mehsud militants.
Its carrier, Invincible, is armed with unwanted anti-shipping helicopters and the wrong sort of Harriers, designed for air superiority rather than ground attack.
It has purchased 300 to 400 Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighters and Su-30 fighter-bombers, plus Russian A-50 AWACS and anti-air and ground attack missiles.
But U.S. officials believe the Taliban deliberately engineered a ground attack against Afghan and U.S. forces, expecting the United States would call in airstrikes.
They will not have the ground attack function which was a key role for coalition aircraft in the Iraq war: this will come with the second tranche.
The rifle that authorities believe Holmes used in the attack lay on the ground near the building.
Mr Osborne may have been the most relieved because he made no gaffes and stood his ground under attack.
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The Eitan is able to perform a mix of missions from surveillance to jamming enemy communications and is clearly more than big enough to carry ground-attack missiles.
It has been a good political issue for Team Obama in the past, and there's another reason they may regard it as favorable ground to attack imaginary adversaries.
An additional ground of IRS attack in these cases is the rule that you normally must donate your entire interest in property to claim a deduction.
He was knocked to the ground during the attack.
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He said the crew of a scallop dredger chased him off his "own ground" during the attack on Friday.
On another occasion, U.N. attack helicopters with troops on the ground killed more than 200 members of a militia group moving on Goma.
Stewart proved a dependable partner for Trescothick, who by the evening session was dispatching South Africa's disorganised and weary attack to all parts of the ground.
Bill Belichick, the Patriots' head coach, will have an unenviable decision to make: whether to play a more traditional defense that protects against the pass and risk allowing Tebow and the Denver option running attack to murder them on the ground or to play a more run-focused defense that puts New England's mediocre cornerbacks on an island in man-to-man coverage.
He backed away from a tender offer for Finova Group on Monday, on the ground that last week's attack was an act of war.
Boros is all about hitting the ground running with high power creatures that attack early and often, fueled by the battalion mechanic.
In the final days - as we shall learn - Nato used drones, bombers, helicopters, electronic interference and special forces on the ground "painting" targets for the attack aircraft as the rebels closed in on the capital, Tripoli.
Dhoni handed the ball to Yuvraj Singh - a player described by Pietersen as a "pie-thrower" during England's tour to the sub-continent last winter - but he was carted all over the ground before being pulled out of the attack after just two overs.
General Dynamics currently has 5, 000 engineers and draftsmen at work in and around Groton designing the next generation of ballistic-missile subs, and an additional 2, 000 tradesmen assembling Virginia-class attack subs, so the town is on firm ground in calling itself the submarine capital of the world.
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Microsoft has also picked its ground well for the second prong of its attack.
On that morning, Staff Sergeant Romesha and his comrades awakened to an attack by an estimated 300 enemy fighters occupying the high ground on all four sides of the complex, employing concentrated fire from recoilless rifles, rocket propelled grenades, anti-aircraft machine guns, mortars and small-arms fire.
Attack helicopters and unmanned drones will increasingly be used to support ground operations instead.
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