We don't need "LIGHT ATTACK AIRCRAFT", that's just another "piss ant" program to take away funding and distract from the big picture! the Air Force is NOT gonna buy a bunch of "gnats"!
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We don't need "LIGHT ATTACK AIRCRAFT", that's just another "piss ant" program to take away funding and distract from the big picture! the Air Force is NOT gonna buy a bunch of "gnats"!
Jura The idiot
General
well the money involved are very small (below 100m), to the point I thought I'd stop following this, but then noticed about SF (I meant the post you quoted) which I thought was cool LOL
Afghanistan won't ever operate their light attack fighters to effect, hell, Iraq should have gotten the light attack fighter rather than F-16's, the USAF doesn't need another piss ant project to take up the time and energy of warfighters, not to mention the bales of money this little fart will cost to position, squadron and operate, hell, you'll be hauling these little bastards every where in the back of C-130's
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
The one mission the USAF would have for them is fighting Afghanistan... but we lost. Didn’t have the commanders, didn’t have the allies. The negotiations are a joke.
Iraqis with them would have been just as useless.
So what are they for?
Big air force doesn’t want them Socom and USMC does.
Socom would love to
they do that today with AH6 and MH6 little birds. Find a rough field drop 24thSTS to check it see if it will take a Hurc Landing. Land the Hurc drop the ramp roll the Little bird out unfold the rotors arm them fuel them and unleash them upon the enemy.
But they can’t do that with these birds the wings don’t fold. What they would do if they had them?
Fly them with a C130 land the set set up a FARP fuel and load for attack.
What else?
Use them to train allies in COIN ops.
Counter insurgents schools in hopes they have better luck than we did.
Jura The idiot
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Oct 27, 2018
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Jura The idiot
General
to stop "using F-22s with rockets to shoot someone off a bicycle"
(now quoted the acting Secretary of the Navy, December 6, 2018: )
perhaps? oh wait, they'll use the F-35s for this
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
First neither Raptors or Lightning carry Rocket pods as yet. Small diameter bombs sure, JDAM okay no rocket pods.
And Well then gee they seem so useful... in fighting the wars we are not fighting anymore.
Afghanistan has A29 Super Tucanos we have them to them trained their pilots and armed them.
But what good are they when the pilots we bring here to train go AWOL and the armies it’s supposed to support flee the field? And yet for twice the price of operating a F16 squadron we maintain them.
Or perhaps Iraq oh wait the Air Force isn’t there and they have the L159 a very good attack trainer from the Czech Republic.
So where? Syria perhaps? Except that the US is backing some groups well others are backed by Russia, as such these little trainers would find themselves on the wrong end of air defense systems from Russia.
And a turboprop vs a S300 is a pilot walking home.
Even insertion of SF teams into Syria at times justified use of Stealth hawks.
Besides the best COIN birds on the planet already are in the USAF. A10,AC130, and MQ9.
A10 because against modern air defenses it’s a dead duck. Same for AC130.
In Syria strikes were done by Raptors and Lightning mostly as rapid call ins much of its job though is to deconflict to chase off Russian bombers from making strikes against US backed forces.
US SOCOM has a mission for them aiding US backed nations and as such they are justified for AFSOC but the big forces?
Seventy yrs ago you guys offered to build our National Highway at cost and interest free(i think).For some reason we turned it down, so maybe you might flick us those LAA's for free so we can have some fun.
Well maybe you and I could both inherit one Bub, we could have so serious fun with a "two ship", I love the airplane, so please don't get me wrong?? its just a time and money waster for the USAF!