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    Operation Shed Light was a crash development project in aerial warfare, initiated in 1966 by the United States Air Force to increase the ability to accurately...
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    infrared radar (FLIR) system under project Lonesome Tiger, as a part of Operation Shed Light. In early 1961, about 20 B-26Bs, most converted from B-26C configuration...
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    United States Air Force (USAF) opened Operation Shed Light as a development effort on 7 February 1966. Shed Light explored the deficiencies in attacking...
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    "hunter" aircraft using infrared equipment instead of cameras under Operation Shed Light. In the end, none were converted. While usually unarmed, RF-4Cs retained...
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  • During Operation Arc Light (sometimes Arclight) from 1965 to 1973, the United States Air Force deployed B-52 Stratofortresses from bases in the U.S. Territory...
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    occur, and Finery was scrapped on 29 April 1964, although Operation Shed remained in place. Shed would have entailed the airlift of a battalion of British...
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    FAC/strike mission under call sign "Nimrod". The U.S. Air Force began Operation Shed Light as a test of night time battlefield illumination. In response to...
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  • Operation Arc Light (1965–1973) Operation Tiger Hound (1965–1968) Operation Shed Light (1966–1972) Operation Carolina Moon (1966) Operation Wahiawa (1966)...
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    the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Operation Shed Light A-1 Skyraiders fitted with low-light-level television were tested in night operations over the Mekong Delta...
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    1972 The USAF begins Operation Shed Light to develop night and adverse weather strike capabilities to interdict PAVN/VC operations. 10 February The People's...
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