New Iraqi Airborne Strike Capability Spotted

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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..

I have this vision of a bunch of troops being bungeed to the back of
the airplane and technically riding "outside" until time to release.
Hey, if they can lift a buncha SEALs from place to place on a line
under a Seahawk like sunfish on a stringer, then why not?


Have you seen the video of a couple of SAS fellows who clung to the stub
wing of a AH64 to perform a rescue ?



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