NorwichDad
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Nice article from CNN. Turbo Prop is back. I still think we need to spend bulk of resources upgrading to the newest technology and planes. After all, we don't know who we will fight or oppose 15 years in the future. But for some fights we can go back in time. Maybe it is way to save some money going against those whose anti aircraft teams are armed with AK47s.
The experiment aims to determine whether slower planes like the Bronco can better support ground troops battling insurgents than more technologically advanced and expensive counterparts such as the F-15 Eagle and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets.
The idea is that older aircraft can more cost-effectively fly close air support missions to help U.S. ground troops and pilots better see and attack low-tech insurgents.
Harmer, now the senior naval analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, called the OV-10 a "great plane to fly" and said it was likely that U.S. pilots fought over who got the chance to fly it in combat.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/politics/decades-old-planes-used-against-isis/index.html
The experiment aims to determine whether slower planes like the Bronco can better support ground troops battling insurgents than more technologically advanced and expensive counterparts such as the F-15 Eagle and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets.
The idea is that older aircraft can more cost-effectively fly close air support missions to help U.S. ground troops and pilots better see and attack low-tech insurgents.
Harmer, now the senior naval analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, called the OV-10 a "great plane to fly" and said it was likely that U.S. pilots fought over who got the chance to fly it in combat.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/politics/decades-old-planes-used-against-isis/index.html