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UK Special Forces perfect their maritime counter-terrorism skills with elite aviation units

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With the terrorism danger perpetually high in both the United States and Europe, Special Operations Forces (SOF) are always honing their counter-terrorism (CT) capabilities, whether in a ground or maritime environment. To respond to a terrorist incident, however, SOF units need to get there first. And that’s where elite aviation units come in.

American SOF units rely on the experts of the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) to infiltrate and exfiltrate them from targets. Their British counterparts rely on the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing (JSFAW), which is a joint unit comprised of both Royal Air Force (RAF) and Army Air Corps (ACC) squadrons.

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  • planethou

    Good info, thank you!

  • Skip M

    Stavros, My only question is after you wrote in 2017 a unit of Helos was disbanded due to lack of funds, I read you as saying they they Recieved 16 Chinooks…Who did they Recieve them from ? US?

  • Stavros Atlamazoglou

    Thanks for your comment, Skip.
    Indeed, the Chinooks will come from the US. They will be brand new, though, and not military surplus.