New AF CAS aircraft program

[Dave Siciliano]

Link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_forces

[Dave Siciliano]

Airborne ops. Can’t find the thread, but someone questioned whether there were any modern parachute drops. Seems in operation Iraqi Freedom, 1,000 folks dropped in to secure an airfield in the north. Subsequent units landed by plane after the airfield was secure. Seems to be several smaller unit and Special Ops drops.

[Dave Siciliano]

Pierre Sprey on the Birth of the A-10

https://soundcloud.com/user-832840864/p ... f-the-a-10[/quote]

[Terry Carraway]

COOL, we could just buy them from China.

And they are WELCOME to #5. But maybe that was the idea, get China to steal the F-35 and chase that rabbit into the hole of thrown away money.

[Reams Goodloe]

Terry -

Well, let's see.....

1. UH60 Stealth model, after Bin Laden raid, PK delivered parts on a silver platter, and reproduced as CN Z-10, which morphed into the CN Z-20.

2. Humvee reproduced as Donfang EQ 2050.

3. C-17, after 630,000 files are swiped from Boeing, including parts, systems, and flight test data, becomes the CN Y-20 Doppelganger.

4. MQI Predator - and other drones - are now the Lijian Sharp Sword, and other drone copies...

5. F-35, after 50 Terra-bytes of data are swiped from NOC, becomes the CN-J-31.... soon to morph into the CN-J-20?

6. Will CN dust off the A-10 plans from their stockpile of info (what do you think, do they have plans, or scans, or not?), and cut any metal?

Reams

[Terry Carraway]

I have a novel idea.

Reverse engineer and restart assembly line of the A-10.

Ultimate CAS aircraft, bar none.

[Stephanie Belser]

Attached article discusses the Air Force's proposed new CAS (Close Air Support) aircraft.
Turbine aircraft with two candidates:

A-29 Super Tucano and AT-6 Light Attack. It discusses weaponry. I don't see any endurance numbers, but I see external tanks.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/08/21/ ... ombat.html

"New", my tired kiester. The Air Force has been fiddle-farting around with buying a new CAS aircraft for a very long time.

Procurement is a real problem. DoD couldn't choose a provider of No.2 pencils in less than two decades.

[Dave Siciliano]

Attached article discusses the Air Force's proposed new CAS (Close Air Support) aircraft.
Turbine aircraft with two candidates:

A-29 Super Tucano and AT-6 Light Attack. It discusses weaponry. I don't see any endurance numbers, but I see external tanks.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/08/21/ ... ombat.html