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Night Stalkers - US special forces at a crossroads
USSOCOM’s rotary-wing capability is predominantly provided by the US Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) – nicknamed the Night Stalkers – which operates a range of platforms, including A/MH-6 Little Bird light attack/assault, MH-60 Black Hawk medium attack/assault and MH-47 Chinook heavy assault helicopters.
During the annual SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida between 7-9 May, USSOCOM officials described how “near peer/greater power competition is driving a need for SOF aviation to evolve and provide value in contested and denied environments over potentially significantly longer distances in an environment of likely highly contested logistics.”
USSOCOM’s rotary-wing capability is predominantly provided by the US Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) – nicknamed the Night Stalkers – which operates a range of platforms, including A/MH-6 Little Bird light attack/assault, MH-60 Black Hawk medium attack/assault and MH-47 Chinook heavy assault helicopters.
During the annual SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida between 7-9 May, USSOCOM officials described how “near peer/greater power competition is driving a need for SOF aviation to evolve and provide value in contested and denied environments over potentially significantly longer distances in an environment of likely highly contested logistics.”