That plane is way to practical and cheap to use. How dare the take a proven design and upgrade it extensively.
If they would have come up with a brand new, impossibly complex, unproven and crazy expensive design they would have sold to the military
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Low budget "Warthog"! To deal with the vast majority of "Insurgency Movements" this is just the ticket! However, let's just bankrupt our populace to have far more expensive toys!!! .