"tim gueguen" wrote in message
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"Stephen "FPilot" Bierce" wrote in message
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(Kirk Stant) wrote:

What was the last piston-engined airplane (not aircraft - lets keep
the helo's out of this one) to employ weapons in A/A or A/G combat
(guns, bombs, rockets, nukes, whatever). Where and when?

Just being there doesn't count.

Oh, and it does have to have a pilot on board - so Predators don't
count either!

I'll open with T-28D's in the Phillippines - late 80's.

Several African air forces still use SOCATA Guerriers (Rallyes) in the
counter-insurgency/ground attack role today. I'm fairly sure some saw
combat
use this year in Liberia and other west African nations.

It also wouldn't surprise me if Antonov An-2s are still used in Chechnya
as
gunships.

Hell, if you're willing to be flexible someone firing a rifle out of a
Cessna 172 probably counts, and that could happen at any time.

The RAAF fly Caribous still so, I guess there is a possibility of something
falling or being thrown out of it at someone/something on the ground.


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