On Oct 20, 3:15*pm, tankfixer wrote:
In article 26adbd0c-f7ef-4048-b9a6-
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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...

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..

--
Meddle ye not in the Affairs of Dragons, for Thou art Crunchy and taste
Goode with Ketchup.

Hey, we were not going to argue with a Marine Major who had no neck,
was about 5 foot something, and sounded like he had a throat full of
gravel. And was loud.

He was the same guy when we had the check point that Marines had to
like the MC-130H Combat Talon II, we were trying to work out how to
deploy them for a pretty much low speed non stop run over the target
where the wheels barely touch down. He said, let me know when its 30
knots, then you can take off. We'll be out.

We figured Marine Recon were a rare breed, maybe a little nuts, but a
rare breed.

Always did like the Special Ops community. Some more than others, but
the quiet types were the ones you knew were damn good.

Then again anybody who trusts the AF to test fly an airplane in the
dark.....