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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:22:26 PM EST
HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (Aug. 1, 2017) A Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano A-29 experimental aircraft flies over White Sands Missile Range. The A-29 is participating in the U.S. Air Force Light Attack Experiment (OA-X), a series of trials to determine the feasibility of using light aircraft in attack roles. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Ethan D. Wagner) https://media.defense.gov/2017/Aug/18/2001794372/-1/-1/0/170801-F-ZZ999-085.JPG To open a larger image click on link |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:24:47 PM EST
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:26:06 PM EST
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I like that Scorpion.
Pretty cool looking jet. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:27:30 PM EST
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXR9WNtKOz4[/youtube]
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:29:23 PM EST
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Meh.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:32:08 PM EST
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:33:53 PM EST
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So a low-flying low-speed prop aircraft flying combat missions.
Do they just not expect them to come back alive? |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:36:12 PM EST
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Looks like a GBU-12. Nothing an MQ-9 can't do.
Where are the gun tapes? |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:36:59 PM EST
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:37:18 PM EST
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So a low-flying low-speed prop aircraft flying combat missions. Do they just not expect them to come back alive? |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:38:57 PM EST
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So a low-flying low-speed prop aircraft flying combat missions. Do they just not expect them to come back alive? |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:39:03 PM EST
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:39:28 PM EST
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:41:49 PM EST
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Nicely done. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:42:27 PM EST
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I'm sure the AF will pick the jet powered one, because it's a jet.
You you imagine an A-1 with a modern engine and built out of modern materials? As big as that fucker is, it could be up there forever! |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:44:13 PM EST
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If I had Bill Gates money, I'd buy one of those Scorpions for fun.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:44:42 PM EST
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If the planes work as well as the video's voice synthesizer . . . WE'RE ALL FOOKED! I'd like to see the specs for all four. How fast can each get on station? How long can they loiter? What's the max payload? Are they anywhere near as hardened as the A-10?
So, the video says that John McCain authorized the budget. Personally? |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:46:02 PM EST
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In before Sylvan.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:47:10 PM EST
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I'm sure the AF will pick the jet powered one, because it's a jet. You you imagine an A-1 with a modern engine and built out of modern materials? As big as that fucker is, it could be up there forever! |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:47:16 PM EST
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Sounds interesting and all, but why would we invest in sending a real pilot down range when we could do much more with a UAV? (unmanned aircraft)
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:54:48 PM EST
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Being prior ordnance I would recommend that bird carry thermobaric or cluster munitions, the "once and done" LGB Skipper package is poor use of payload, a fast mover could do that and much better.
A-6 + Skipper *BOOM* 
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Posted: 8/23/2017 8:56:01 PM EST
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My dad was a Spad pilot and I had the privilege to see them in action (Vietnam)so completely agree. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:00:31 PM EST
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The national news has been showing Tucano's in Afghanistan the last couple of days. They can drop bombs over there, and the air and gravity here are about the same, so they'll work here, too.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:01:43 PM EST
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Quote Historylove it |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:02:38 PM EST
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I like sleek sexy stealth fighters and attack craft.
In the majority of operations we have been involved in over the last 20 years, a low cost, long loiter time ac would have worked great. Even fighting NK, they will do a fine job of cleanup after all the major SAM and AA systems have been cleaned up. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:04:58 PM EST
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:05:58 PM EST
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Looks like the paper bomb we used in, Operation: Clear and present danger. Is it?
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:09:09 PM EST
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Update.
Outboard .338 mini-guns. Nacelle 20mm cannon. Assorted Hate on hardpoints. Fast as hell even in WW2. 2 engines.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:10:56 PM EST
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My only issue with these CAS and COIN planes is lack of payload capacity. The thing should be able to carry 2-4 1000lb bombs, all kinds of rockets, 20 or 30mm vulcan or maybe 4x.50cals.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:13:12 PM EST
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Nm. Read it as .303's, carry on. Substitute 20 mil for a 40mm chaingun though.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:13:48 PM EST
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Lol, Glorified crop duster.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:14:26 PM EST
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WTF are you on about? 6X.50 machine guns, 1X20mm hispano cannon. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Update. Outboard .338 mini-guns. Nacelle 20mm cannon. Assorted Hate on hardpoints. Fast as hell even in WW2. 2 engines.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:15:51 PM EST
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I'm modernizing it. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:19:08 PM EST
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So a low-flying low-speed prop aircraft flying combat missions. Do they just not expect them to come back alive? |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:22:45 PM EST
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Looks like the paper bomb we used in, Operation: Clear and present danger. Is it? That's a steel cased unit. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:26:55 PM EST
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Sounds interesting and all, but why would we invest in sending a real pilot down range when we could do much more with a UAV? (unmanned aircraft) These aircraft allow pilots to gain experience for $500-$3000 per flight hour (instead of $15-30,000), and saves our high value aircraft for other missions. While giving peripheral vision that no UAV/RPV will ever match. At a meaningful distance to the ground. With less lag for danger close sorties. While being able to allow for FAC duties if necessary due to eyes on. While supposedly having less thermal heat signature for MANPADS. So yeah. Goat fuckers can hack a UAV/RPV data stream, on an aircraft with lag, that has bad peripheral vision, that flies high enough to remove the "close" from CAS. And if you're lucky, your enemy will be dumber than the Iranians who managed to take over an RQ-170. Theres roles for UAV/RPV. CAS isn't one of them. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:29:31 PM EST
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Update. Outboard .338 mini-guns. Nacelle 20mm cannon. Assorted Hate on hardpoints. Fast as hell even in WW2. 2 engines.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WCapVFcVR1o/maxresdefault.jpg |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:30:19 PM EST
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So a low-flying low-speed prop aircraft flying combat missions. Do they just not expect them to come back alive? ) and they can easily provide support from those altitudes. Not much use when racing to the fulda gap, but a hell of a lot more cost efficient way of blowing up guys wearing bedsheets and wiping their ass with their hands.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:30:55 PM EST
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No Bronco, no care
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:38:01 PM EST
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That's gonna be a fun job for somebody.
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:52:18 PM EST
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Signals like that cut a hole in the sky that even Iran hacked. These aircraft allow pilots to gain experience for $500-$3000 per flight hour (instead of $15-30,000), and saves our high value aircraft for other missions. While giving peripheral vision that no UAV/RPV will ever match. At a meaningful distance to the ground. With less lag for danger close sorties. While being able to allow for FAC duties if necessary due to eyes on. While supposedly having less thermal heat signature for MANPADS. So yeah. Goat fuckers can hack a UAV/RPV data stream, on an aircraft with lag, that has bad peripheral vision, that flies high enough to remove the "close" from CAS. And if you're lucky, your enemy will be dumber than the Iranians who managed to take over an RQ-170. Theres roles for UAV/RPV. CAS isn't one of them. Also curious if you would elaborate on your experiences with the "lag" inherent in RPA operations and how that impacts "danger close sorties". |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 9:54:31 PM EST
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No Bronco, no care |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 10:03:54 PM EST
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Curious if you would elaborate on your experiences with goat fuckers hacking the CDL and KU band. Also curious if you would elaborate on your experiences with the "lag" inherent in RPA operations and how that impacts "danger close sorties". But I'll admit, the dude who had to use a cane to walk around for a while due to what sounded vaguely like a mishap between his unit and a UAV/RPA in theater somehow? He might be a little biased. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 10:06:28 PM EST
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The B-24 is already standardized and doesn't need the approval BS.
Just order a couple of hundred and carpet bomb grid squares. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 10:09:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuote Historyso does this one |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 10:10:31 PM EST
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I like that Scorpion. Pretty cool looking jet. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 10:17:01 PM EST
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So a low-flying low-speed prop aircraft flying combat missions. Do they just not expect them to come back alive? USAF is dangerously close to making a good decision... that particular bomb is too big, but it's a start. Leave the useless guns off, ditch the twin-engined jet entrant, and get down to business. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 10:23:55 PM EST
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, that flies high enough to remove the "close" from CAS. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 10:27:55 PM EST
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And yet attack helicopters fly even lower and slower and manage to fly CAS and live to tell the tale.... USAF is dangerously close to making a good decision... that particular bomb is too big, but it's a start. Leave the useless guns off, ditch the twin-engined jet entrant, and get down to business. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 10:30:19 PM EST
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Personally? None. People I know and respect who have served several tours overseas and all they got was seething rage against the VA, and other people who have worked in the aircraft development side of things? Lots. Both sets of people know way more things about all of the above than I could ever hope to relay, and both sides have very similar arguments against a UAV/RPA solution to any CAS role. But I'll admit, the dude who had to use a cane to walk around for a while due to what sounded vaguely like a mishap between his unit and a UAV/RPA in theater somehow? He might be a little biased. There is also a "lag" when operating on our satellite links. Never once has it been a limiting factor in any tactical situation that I'm aware of. |
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Posted: 8/23/2017 10:44:19 PM EST
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