Air Force Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez
An MC-12W Liberty readies for takeoff at Bagram air base, Afghanistan
Posted on 03/18/2012 1:09:08 PM PDT by mylife
The US Air Force needed more Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance capability and so launched the Project Liberty program. The result was the low-cost MC-12W aircraft, which flew its first combat mission in June 2009, just eight months after receiving funds. It has since flown thousands of successful missions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Air Force Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez
An MC-12W Liberty readies for takeoff at Bagram air base, Afghanistan
For all of you who think defense contractors don’t perform.
I had a friend who was flying a Pilatus over there. He is a pretty tall guy, but not fat at all, and his boss over there was pushing for him to take 20 lbs. off because they are so weight critical. The 350 is a pretty good platform for that kind of mission.
The King Air does pretty well even with a payload.
It’s pretty nifty kite.
Afghanistan would be a challenging environment to fly.
One of my buds flew apaches there.
The Bird got shot up pretty good.
He’s fine.
Taliban on the sides of the mountain passes.
They’re pretty smart for hooligans.
They got you hemmed in by mountains and they tried to shoot off the tail rotor
Sorry, I like planes as much as the next guy, but this article is about getting Obama re-elected. It is TIME's only purpose right now.
Wrong.
Project Liberty started on GWB’s watch and it has revolutionized procurement.
We streamlined the process.
I understand your hatred for TIME.
We’re pretty proud of our “can do attitude”
Lt. Col. Dan Ward is an active duty acquisitions officer in the U.S. Air Force, currently deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan. The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Air Force or Department of Defense.
What cockpit does it have. I fly for CBP and we are getting our aged C-12s replaced with a new 350 with the Proline 21 cockpit. I’m sure our procurement people will figure out a way to jack that up. I don’t know if they fixed it, but originally they had put the control panel for the microwave downlink on a rack by the back door. So every time you have to change a channel or turn it off and on you have to send somebody to the back to do it.
Looks to be a modified Proline 21
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