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=== Establishment ===
The end result was the establishment of the '''''Aviation Fighter Weapons School (AFWS)''''' on July 4th, 1971, at Váras Air Force Base by Teancaer, Grand Dominion of Círi. Placed under the control of the FS-121 "Séadaire" (Pacemaker) an TKN-60A Phantom–equipped Replacement Air Group (RAG) unit, the new school will, for the first year, be prioritized, provided with a copious amounts of funding and resources. Its staff consists of eight TKN-60B Phantom II instructors from FS-121 and one intelligence officer hand-picked by the school's first officer-in-charge, Lieutenant Commander Jan Pedan nar Venvoi. Together, TKN-60 aviators
== Role and Training Program ==
According to the 1972 command history of the Aviation Fighter Weapons School, or as its codenamed as "ACE COMBAT" the unit's purpose is to "train fighter air crews at the graduate level in all aspects of fighter weapons systems including tactics, techniques, procedures and doctrine. It serves to build a nucleus of eminently knowledgeable fighter crews to construct, guide, and enhance weapons training cycles and subsequent aircrew performance. This select group acts as the TKN-60 community’s most operationally orientated weapons specialists. The program's efforts are dedicated to the professional fighter crews of the Guards, Armada Aviation, as well as the Aviation Service itself, past, present and future.” Highly qualified instructors are an essential element of the program. Mediocre instructors are judged to be unable to hold the attention of talented students. Instructors were handpicked knowledgeable fighter tacticians assigned to one or more specific fields of expertise, such as a particular weapon, threat, or tactic. Every instructor was required to become an expert in effective training techniques. All lectures were given without notes after being screened by a committee of questioners set up to critically review a proposal and/or help someone prepare for a difficult oral examination, or also known as the "murder board" of evaluators who would point out ambiguities or flawed concepts in the draft presentation. The curriculum is set in a constant state of flux based upon class critiques and integration of developing tactics to use new systems to combat emerging threats.
Its objective is to develop, refine, and teach aerial dogfight tactics and techniques to certain fleet air crews, using the concept of dissimilar air combat training, or DACT, which uses stand-in aircraft to realistically replicate expected enemy aircraft and is widely used in air arms the world over. Air crews selected to attend the course were chosen from front-line units. Upon graduating, these crews would return to their parent fleet units to relay what they had learned to their fellow squadron mates—in essence becoming instructors themselves.
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