44. General a. Responsive aerial firepower against perArmed army helicopters provide a means of sonnel and materiel on area or point type supplementing and extending the fire support targets. capabilities available to the ground com- b. Extension of the reconnaissance and semander. They are not intended to substitute curity capabilities of ground units. for ground-based fire or close air support. They c. An additional means of target acquisition, can provide direct fire support to ground op- target marking, target fixing, and the means erations by performing reconnaissance by fire, for initiating requests for close air support by by attacking enemy forces during airmobile Air Force, Navy, and Marine attack aircraft. or security operations, and by providing *or- Armed helicopters can be used to augment the ganic, highly mobile direct fire support.
DesignationFM 1-100
EditionNov 1966
StatusSuperseded
Pages84
FunctionAviation
CollectionHistoric
Public domain (U.S. Government work)