Throw back to the A-1 Sky Raider. Form follows function.
It sure is ugly.
200 rounds?? That’s like 15-20 seconds of ordinance. What is going on here?
This is DUMB AS $HIT!!!
Oh yeah let’s make our pilots targets with World War II style planes.
Yeah that’s real genius!
YEAH this would have been great over 70 years ago back in World War II!!!
Today it will give you a bunch of dead pilots vs a Surface to Air Missiles. Did you all forget what happened to the Soviet Aircraft against Stinger shoulder launched Surface to Air Missile?
Slow flying Prop plane aircraft to take to the battlefield against gorrella forces is just beyond retarded and possibly criminal. All those who pushed this B.S. should be arrested.
IDIOTS!
A turboprop P-51!!!
I always thought the Super Tucano looked more like a bubble-canopied Stuka with the wings straightened out.
sure-nuff looks like a russian rocket pod on that outside hardpointThe situation becomes a little more clear. At last.
The OA-X Light Attack Experiment (aka “Demonstration,” “Competition”) is a USAF program initiated to explore less costly options for ground attack aircraft.
Embraer’s A-29 is one of four aircraft to enter the flight phase, which began in early August.
SEALs have nothing to do with it.