What went right?

Extra armor.
Have to get it if you're going to operate in such places like Afghanistan.

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Those are called "wings."

Why is this fucking piece of junk shilled so hard on Jow Forums? Give it up you faggots, I'm 99% sure nobody involved with procurement for any military anywhere browses Jow Forums.
It's a worthless piece of junk.

please explain why it's junk

>everything that's foreign posted on Jow Forums are paid shills

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We'll take your word for it, General!

The right tool for the job. Can't go wrong with that.

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Fuck off cunts.

GOD! Just Give It Up, Brazilio!

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Brazilians want to sell the only thing they produce: an aircraft that looks like it came straight out of WW2.

USAF managed do successfully ignore reality and SOCOM requirements for decade while funneling more money to less useful and more expensive shit. That means post military career employment in military industrial complex for poor USAF staff officers.

The Skyraider which was superior to this anemic piece of shit was shot down in the hundreds in Korea and Vietnam. Back in those days, this was just Tuesday but today, losing even one pilot (sorry grunts, no one cares that you die unless you're a mayor) will mean tons of bad publicity. Prop planes have their place but direct CAS unless against secluded Indian ocean islanders will end up badly.

Muh dik

>slower than jet counterparts
>carries less payload than jet counterparts
>more vulnerable to ground fire

If you're a guy on the ground calling in CAS you want it to show up fast, stay alive long enough to help, and dish out lots of hurt. Jets do this better than this dinky cropduster. If you want an aircraft that's dedicated to carrying munitions, load up a B-52 or B-1 with JDAMs, or a Predator with hellfires. This aircraft is inferior in every regard to 4th and 5th gen multirole aircraft when it comes to actually being useful as a CAS bird.

If you're gonna argue some shit about low, slow dedicated CAS, that's what fucking attack helicopters are for, dumbass.

OV-10 is better, at least the OV-10 can mount advanced targeting pods and carry it's own supplies.

>OV-10 is better
>OV-10
heh

Tell me where the Taliban hides their superpower big brothers, SAM batteries, and Air Forces

>longer loiter time the jets
>can operate from improvised runways
>more reliable then jets
>operation cost

Yeah, just give B-1s to the Afghan air force user!

>The company was “awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract for potential procurement, sustainment, modifications, ferry, and related equipment for the A-29,”

Holy shit.
There is literally no defense against an infinite amount of airplanes.

That plane looks so happy

Turn all the Super Tucanos into drones and then infinitely produce them.

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Would this work?

Way to completely miss the point of the light attack program

Half the point of manned COIN aircraft is not being a drone.

Drones have some great advantages, like loiter time, but a low-flying turboprop still often beats them on situational awareness; and ofc it doesn't take up precious satellite bandwidth with streaming HD video.

>If you're a guy on the ground calling in CAS you want it to show up fast

Yeah? It takes 2-3 days of pre-planning to get it numbnuts. Then 30 minutes of transit time from the airfield.

The limiting factor is how long it can stay on station, not when it arrives. Better to have a plane on site when the fight kicks off, because they'll break contact before it can arrive otherwise. A jet can stay on station an hour tops. A turboprop? 3-4 hours.

>If you're gonna argue some shit about low, slow dedicated CAS, that's what fucking attack helicopters are for, dumbass.

What if I told you there was a way to get something that does 80% of a helicopters job and loiters 4x as long for a quarter of the price and less than a quarter of the maintenance, so its actually available when u need it?

Isn't this the same for pretty much every big defense contractors in US?

>What went right?

The USAF isn't buying any.

COIN plane is quite likely orbiting the area at start of operations, at least when planning for operation is done properly.

The whole point of dedicated COIN CAS aircraft is the fact that it can do the job cheaper than a fighter or attack helicopter.

Most attack helicopters literally run two of the same engines as as COIN plane is indicating something, those are less efficient.

OV-10 has been out production for decades. Yep. They built couple modernized Broncos and found out that there simply isn't enough airframes that could be rebuilt for war. Those are fine for Calfire to look at forest fires. They literally took those aircraft from NASA.

When will the OA-X results come out?
Which aircraft will take the contract?

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In 'nam planes like these were used originally for quick bomb runs on small bases and outposts; the idea was that you'd have patrols call in the locations and later these slower but quieter and smaller profile prop planes would show up out of nowhere, drop their bombs and fly off. Because they were quiet and flew low it meant that there was little to no warning for the enemy to even be ready to take pot-shots at 'em.

I guess they want to do the same thing with these.