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What (who) is J-CATCH - definition
J-CATCH
J-CATCH, short for Joint Countering Attack Helicopter, was a joint US Army-US Air Force experiment in dissimilar air combat between jet fighters and attack helicopters, conducted in 1978/79. To the surprise of many involved in the program, the helicopters proved extremely dangerous to the fighters when they were properly employed, racking up a 5-to-1 kill ratio over the fighters when fighting at close ranges with guns.
Catch-22
NOVEL BY THE AMERICAN AUTHOR JOSEPH HELLER
A. Fortiori; Catch Twenty Two; Catch-22 (novel); Catch XXII; Catch 22 (novel); Catch-18; Catch‑22; Catch-22 (book)
also Catch 22
If you describe a situation as a Catch-22, you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing.
It's a Catch 22 situation here. Nobody wants to support you until you're successful, but without the support how can you ever be successful?
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catch-22
NOVEL BY THE AMERICAN AUTHOR JOSEPH HELLER
A. Fortiori; Catch Twenty Two; Catch-22 (novel); Catch XXII; Catch 22 (novel); Catch-18; Catch‑22; Catch-22 (book)
¦ noun a difficult situation from which there is no escape because it involves mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.
Origin
title of a novel by Joseph Heller (1961).
