Oaledonia wrote:United states of brazilian nations wrote:WARNING: this post may not be entirely serious. all gramatic errors in this post are intentional and intended to reinforce the not-totally-serious nature of the post. if you are a grammar nazi, look away now.
That's all good and all, but:
Wikipedia wrote:Boeing has recently put together plans internally to build a modernized, improved version of the Bronco, called the OV-10X,[4] to satisfy a possible Air Force requirement for a light attack plane.[5] According to Pentagon and industry officials, while the aircraft would maintain much of its 1960s-vintage rugged external design, the 21st century modernizations would include a computerized glass cockpit, intelligence sensors and smart-bomb-dropping capabilities. Boeing indicates that international interest in restarting production is growing, to compete with other light attack aircraft such as the T-6B Texan II, A-67 Dragon and EMB 314 Super Tucano.
> compete with other light attack aircraft such as the T-6B Texan II, A-67 Dragon and EMB 314 Super Tucano
> compete with EMB 314 Super Tucano
It can carry more, land in a shorter time,
fuck your internal 50 cal, and operate at a similar cost.
Super Tucano can into 20mm gun pods as well. Tucano also can into superior maneuverability (it is used by the Esquadrilha Da Fumaça, AKA Brazil's thunderbirds/blue angels) and i highly doubt that a two-engine, relatively heavy plane can take off/land in shorter runaways. even then, it better have some heavy duty landing gear if it wants to land in short, improvised airstrips.
also, while having two engines might be an advantadge when it comes to damage, remember that it also means double the cost for engine maintenance. one of the strong points of the A-29 is its cheapness, both to build, operate and maintain.
A-29 is also more agile and it profile smaller, thus harder to hit by AAA and insurgents firing .50 cal machine guns. the colombian air force lost an A-29 to ground fire, but so did one od their Broncos. and they use the A-29 much more heavily.
i highly doubt the A-29 will win the competition though, since 'muricans hardly ever abopt anything that isn't 'murican. that's why they didn't adopt .280 British and the FN FAL.
Dat cua Tien wrote:COIN aircraft? A-7 and A-4 can into napalm and GPU-5/A.
Brazilian navy can into A-4, because our aircraft carrier is so shitty it can't take anything larger. we might buy/make some naval gripens though.