Hellfire

Hellfire
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He launched the weapon that changed a war.May 2006. Ed Macy arrives in Afghanistan along with the Apache AH Mk 1 on its first operational tour. It's an unfamiliar combat zone with a limited role for the Apache and Ed's time is spent escorting Chinooks. But one month later, during Operation Mutay, with 3 Para pinned down in Helmand, the arguments about the Apache's potential are thrown out and Ed deploys the first ever Hellfire missile in combat.That squeeze of the trigger changed the war for the British and the Taliban alike. The £4.2bn Apache programme was dramatically redirected to fighting the enemy head-on and turned Ed and his squadron into one of the British Army's greatest assets.Ed recounts the intense months that followed Mutay: the steep learning curve, the new missions, the evolving enemy and the changing Rules of Engagement. He also sheds light on his early career as a young paratrooper, his operational baptism as a pilot and how both shaped his ability to fly, fight and survive during that fateful first Afghanistan tour against a cunning and ruthless enemy.It was here, in the dusty wastes of Helmand that Ed, his colleagues and the Apache found themselves on trial for their lives and for the reputation of a machine on which the British government had staked a fortune. The crucible of fire that awaited them in Helmand would cement the fate of man and machine forever.

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Ed Macy. Hellfire

Ed Macy. Hellfire

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Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

AIR ATTACK, AIR ATTACK

ARRESTED AND TESTED

SKYLINED WITH NO B ACKUP

CHOPP ER PALMER’ S WINGS

BOOBY-TRAPPED IN NORTHERN IRELAND

BOMBING FREDDIE MERCURY

FACING TOMMO

ONE ON ONE

THE HUNTER

THE KILLER

LEARNING TO FLY-LEARNING TO FIGHT

DUSTY HELLFIRE

MOOSE TIME

WILDMAN OF HELMAND

VISITING THE SHRINE

THE 7 PS

GO-GO-GO

LATE

EMBARRASSINGLY LATE

OPERATION MUTAY

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED

SCRAMBLE

BROKEN ARROW

THE PLAN

THE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNNER

HELLFIRE

SIEGE

OPERATION SNAKEBITE

SNIPER TEAM

EPILOGUE

AFTERWORD

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INDEX

About the Publisher

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In memory of my grandparents and their unconditional love

Title Page

.....

Jake decided it was time to raise the stakes.

‘Wildman Five Three this is Wildman Five Two. Fireplan: we will engage the Taliban in the trees to the south-west of the DC with Apache rockets. Copy?’

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