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October 20th 08, 09:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval,sci.military.naval
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New Iraqi Airborne Strike Capability Spotted
In article 26adbd0c-f7ef-4048-b9a6-
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says...
On Oct 19, 8:51*pm, "David E. Powell"
wrote:
On Oct 19, 8:39*pm, wrote:
On Oct 19, 1:11*pm, "David E. Powell"
wrote:
On Oct 14, 11:27*pm, wrote:
See:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...s/IRAQ101408.x
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I wonder what else it can carry besides Hellfire.
Nice, finally!
No hub-center cannon though
All kidding aside, I wonder if a cannon could be mounted down the
road?
A belly turret like the one on the OV-10D would be nice, then you
could
do normal strafing or just swivel it to the side and orbit the target
like a mini-
AC-130.
That is a capital idea. Then one could orbit and do surveillance and
be able to shoot to the side over a certain area. An Apache turret
might work.... that would be pretty cool.
I wonder what all that passenger space in the back is used for when
it's
flying a COIN mission?
Hmm... multirole stuff for troops or surveillance gear? If they haev
two people on board, one can guide something like a TOW or HOT missile
while the other one flies. Pretty nice.
Some Marine special ops (Recon ) guys told us they could put a platoon
in there and parachute out the back. How the heck they did that, we
never figured out.
In the back of an OV-10 ?
Very unlikely.
Maybe a three man team..
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