Next test question: What was the last piston-engined aircraft to be used in combat?

(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.

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922
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