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Counter-Strike from the Sky: The Rhodesian All-Arms Fireforce in the War in the Bush 1974 - 1980
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About Counter-Strike From The Sky: The Rhodesian All-Arms
Fireforce as a military concept, dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Coupled with this, the traditional counter-insurgency tactics (against Mugabe’s ZANLA and Nkomo’s ZIPRA) of follow-ups, tracking and ambushing simply weren’t producing satisfactory results. Visionary RhAF and Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) officers thus expanded on the idea of 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 C-47 Dakotas. In support would be a propeller-driven ground-attack aircraft armed with front guns, pods of napalm, white phosphorus rockets and a variety of Rhodesian-designed bombs; on call would be Canberra bombers, Hawker Hunter and Vampire jets. Fireforce has been described by Charles D. Melson as the ultimate “killing machine”. “From border control and support to the civil power, to the joint operations command, and the implementation of combined operations the evolving civil–military response to the insurgent threat is covered. This book should be found on professional reading lists and as command and staff course texts” —Charles D. Melson Chief Historian, U.S. Marine Corps
