AC-130 replacement

[TX3RN0BILL 3]

You have to wonder why so often things that work well aren't simply transplanted from one airframe to another but instead they make a whole new thing from scratch. At least the jammers for the EA-6 were used on the F-111 and now the EA-18G. Then there was that ASPJ fiasco.

I know they still need to replace the older AC-130s, and something tells me we'll never find a better replacement...than a newer AC-130!

 

Aye, just like the only true replacement of the A-10... is another A-10!

[+Julhelm 266]

The AC-27 looks like a modern equivalent of the 'nam-era AC-123 'Black Spot'.

 

Personally I'd like to see the 'Credible Chase' concept revisited, especially now when we're fighting mostly COIN ops anyway.

[+ST0RM 145]

The USAF is buying, or showing significant interest, in the AT-6B/C Texan as a COIN platform. We've already got most of the helos covered.

 

-S

[commander 0]

Aye, just like the only true replacement of the A-10... is another A-10!

 

HERE HERE!!!!

[charlielima 328]

The USAF is buying, or showing significant interest, in the AT-6B/C Texan as a COIN platform. We've already got most of the helos covered.

 

-S

Any Marine Corps interest? There was talk about bringing OV-10s back. There could of been some confusion with contractors.

:ph34r: CL

Edited February 3, 2009 by charlielima

[Chaser617 0]

Ok at the risk of sounding like an idiot we *are* talking about Texan *II*s right? not the originals?

[charlielima 328]

Ok at the risk of sounding like an idiot we *are* talking about Texan *II*s right? not the originals?

 

 

 

The Texan II (2). I'm not sure if this is a Beechcraft design or an American Pilatus PC-9?

I would think US would have huge interest in the Super Tucano. They have some interest or they wouldn't be paying Blackwater to operate them.

 

I know we aren't in a piston engine aviation world anymore but one of these makes more sense to me

 

 

 

 

 

:ph34r: CL

Edited February 4, 2009 by charlielima

[JediMaster 451]

The T-6 is a modified Pilatus design.