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Old 29th Nov 2015, 12:03
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In the current situation with precision weapons and restrictive ROE weapons resupply is of a lower order than fuel and hotac.

BYOW and AAR reduce the logistics burden on an FOL in the early phases of an operation. In other words the RAF can still get to the party first. You can then compare the need for FP at FOL with the requirements for SSN and DDG protection for CVS and AOR etc.
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