This right here is why we need to allow enlistment to fly aircraft again. I don't care if you stick them in the USAF equivalent of a TIE fighter with almost zero armor and just a big gun/engine mounted on the trainwreck. You could require enlistment to be E5 or above to fly and you would still have fucking THOUSANDS of individuals lining up to fly your shit, with no whiny officers complaining that their life might be in danger, or that they wanna be part of the "Space Force" instead. Make the skies be owned by the eternal Redneck menace as Cletus takes Lieutenant Phillip's woman into his piece-of-shit tin can that he flew through enemy AA while Lieutenant Phillip cried himself to sleep questioning why some insane country boy with double digit IQ would outclass him on the battlefield and in the bedroom. Forget the drones already; flood the fucking skies with cheap DAKADAKADAKA ZOOM in such numbers that the enemy will believe a swarm of inbred nigger locusts who barely graduated high school were coming to rain freedom on them with such ferocity that their anuses will implode into god damned diamonds from the clenching. Make the sky a beautiful shade of PUTT PUTTING iron and smoke as former farmer Joe takes pot shots with his hatch open at the enemy from inside his metal coffin.
USAF Light Attack aircraft Program thread
Why don't they just bring back the Thunderbolt or the Skyraider?
Your vision is like Kiowa pilots on steroids.
General "Not Exactly Sane But Let's Make It Rain" user, I think that idea is well sound and in need of being shoved down every wanna-be High-Speed Chair-Force Jigger that ever sunburned in an inflatable plastic pool on deck's throat! Light-Infantry leads the way! On foot or in air. Now if only we can make the Attack Choppers faster, lighter, and cheaper…then we can fill the skies with Wasps and Hornets piloted by "too-eager" types.
It would just make too damn much sense, especially the A-1.
They already got a 4 seater for other options.
Its already a well proven carrier and IIRC that included catapult launch.
Last but not least they already have a turbo-prop version (with respectable 501mph top speed, about 100mph more than current prospects) and last but not least……
a rear facing exhaust pipe to prevent cheap shoulder launched SAM for locking on during before or during attack.en.wikipedia.org
I was just gonna say that user perfectly described what a Kiowa pilot is. The only combat aircraft where the crew will list "a combat load of 5.56" in their support options to ground troops.
I always thought it was pretty lame that Airborne didn't have parawings and instead were dumped like sacks of potatoes without any ability to choose landing site, which I guess is why they do drops in big open fields.
IDK the gild ratio of a parawing but I'd want an enemy to have to think "Fuck, those guys could anywhere within 20miles within 30mins" when they detect a drop happening, rather than "Oh, they all in that big field for a while".
If every soldier can choose their own landing zone they will all end up scattered or worse, end up colliding with one another. That kind of freedom is reserved for small teams.
Sauce or it never happened, frog.
Are the Kiowas any good? You guys just gifted us fucking 70 of them. The OH-58D model specifically.