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[Younggun]

Wonder if the services converted a few of these to turbo prop and trick them out for close air support how effective they be

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If they did, whoever was responsible for it would need to be drug out in to the street and kicked mercilessly.


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[toddnjoyce]

Wonder if the services converted a few of these to turbo prop and trick them out for close air support how effective they be

I’m not aware of any Corsairs that were converted, but...

If they did, whoever was responsible for it would need to be drug out in to the street and kicked mercilessly.

After Piper bought the rights to the P-51, they birthed the PA-48 Enforcer as a competitor to Cessna’s A-37 in the COIN mission.

Tuesday Turboprop: The Piper PA-48 Enforcer - Flight Journal

Aviation History | History of Flight | Aviation History Articles, Warbirds, Bombers, Trainers, Pilots | Tuesday Turboprop: The Piper PA-48 Enforcer

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[Younggun]

Meh, nobody cares about the liquid cooled princess planes.


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[oohrah]

Since there is no real SAM threat anymore, the real threat to fighters is ground fire/AAA, effective below 10,000 ft. So stay high, drop precision guided munitions, and leave the CAS to drones.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Since there is no real SAM threat anymore

Huh?

 

[oohrah]

Well, not where we're currently operating. Now if we actually flew into Iran or Russia airspace, that would be a different story. And there are still shoulder fired IR missiles to contend with, but they're not effective above 10,000 ft either. Of course none of this applies to helos, which are always in the ground fire envelope.

 

[easy rider]

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Japanese mini sub that failed to enter Pearl Harbor for the attack

They have one of those on the navy base in Guam, in front of the naval housing. When I was looking at it, although I know the Japanese are smaller, I couldn't imagine it was comfortable getting in, let alone for hours on end. They are extremely small.

 

[kbaxter60]

They have one of those on the navy base in Guam, in front of the naval housing. When I was looking at it, although I know the Japanese are smaller, I couldn't imagine it was comfortable getting in, let alone for hours on end. They are extremely small.

Did it look like this? (this would not be a job for me. I bet it would be fund to tool around for a bit, but submerged for hours with hunters after you? No.)

 

[easy rider]

Did it look like this? (this would not be a job for me. I bet it would be fund to tool around for a bit, but submerged for hours with hunters after you? No.)
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It looked like that, but I don't believe the Santa Rita Center is on the base There, but yeah, I at first thought it was a model of a full size sub.

 

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Harrier VSTOL fighter cockpit, ready for take-off from an Invincible Class Carrier

 

[Bigguy49]

Harrier VSTOL fighter cockpit, ready for take-off from an Invincible Class Carrier

My wife who is a "TopGun" movie junkie (mostly the first 5 minutes of carrier launch ,she once had the movie sound cranked up so loud on our surround sound that our daughter walked in and told her things were rattling off the walls in her room) wants to see a video from the pilots position of a carrier launch

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[pronstar]

My wife who is a "TopGun" movie junkie wants to see a video from the pilots position of a carrier launch

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There are tons of ‘em on YouTube if you search “carrier launch cockpit view”

Here’s just one





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Sueee!

 

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