Well, this is cool

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 05/11/2018 at 10:46 • Filed to: None

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It’s also a shameless plug, since Oppo’s favorite airplane is featured on today’s This Date in Aviation History. Tune in at 11:35ET.

punkgoose17 > ttyymmnn 05/11/2018 at 10:52

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I am hoping the replacement Warthog is something cool, like a twin pusher turboprop Gatling gun carrying super durable low flying monster.

ttyymmnn > punkgoose17 05/11/2018 at 10:59

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You may have just described the Beechcraft Grizzly. It was designed as a bunker buster for the invasion of Japan, but never produced. It was built around a 75mm cannon in the nose, and also had six .50 caliber machine guns.

Or perhaps the Bell Airacuda. Pusher engines, with manned 37mm guns in pods ahead of the engines. Also had two .30 and two .50 caliber machine guns.

However, we are much more likely to get something like this, the AT-6 Texan II. Great payload, fantastic loiter, long range.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 05/11/2018 at 11:01

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BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTT

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 05/11/2018 at 11:06

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I can’t help but think that camo job looks like one on a wannabe CUCV Blazer owned by someone in Georgia, and the only think missing is black paint oversprayed leaf shapes.

Except that it’s too consistent. Now, if it were *really* regimented, it would be WWI lozenge camo.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 05/11/2018 at 11:15

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The Monster Miata of airplanes. I doubt they would choose something with one engine, but who knows.

Bring back the AD-1 Skyraider!

ttyymmnn > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 05/11/2018 at 11:21

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If you were an F-35, you’d be out of ammo.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/11/2018 at 11:23

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That WWI camo was my immediate first thought. When reading about the F-117, it turns out that a shade of pink actually has lower visibility than black, but real men don’t fly pink airplanes. There’s a lot of pink in that lozenge camo.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 05/11/2018 at 11:25

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I was intrigued by the armored Air Tractor.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 05/11/2018 at 11:26

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Pink at twilight and at any time during the day, certainly. Pink at night, maybe less in theory, but I suspect macht’s nichts . It is, after all, dark at that time.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > ttyymmnn 05/11/2018 at 11:30

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Why am I looking at wonder woman’s plane?

punkgoose17 > ttyymmnn 05/11/2018 at 11:45

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I think the plane in my head was a lot like the Beechcraft Grizzly with some A-10 mixed in.

I wonder if the AT-6 has the ability to take a hit like a low level ground support aircraft needs?

ttyymmnn > punkgoose17 05/11/2018 at 11:46

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I’m sure it’s beefed up, but I doubt it has a titanium tub like the Warthog.

Maxima Speed > punkgoose17 05/11/2018 at 11:46

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I hope they don’t replace it, because they don’t need to  Just build more.

user314 > ttyymmnn 05/11/2018 at 11:48

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Ah, the JAWS and JAWS II camo schemes!

I miss you, camouflage in colors other than Gunship Gray.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 05/11/2018 at 11:50

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Then we can start referring to enemy combatants as “crops”

DUSTED!

ttyymmnn > user314 05/11/2018 at 11:54

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I was always fond of the simple European green. Simpler times, when all we had to worry about was hordes of Soviet tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap.

user314 > ttyymmnn 05/11/2018 at 12:02

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Right? I’m honestly surprised they didn’t just go: “Fuck it, it’s all going to be radioactive slag an hour after we kick-off anyway! Unpainted aluminum all the things!”

ttyymmnn > user314 05/11/2018 at 12:04

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Ooh, I’m a sucker for shiny aluminum planes.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/11/2018 at 12:52

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Zee Geeeermans, I thought. Well they did tons of camo research through WWII. I was the first USMC OCS class to get digital (was supposed to be USMC ONLY camo), I was told it was derived from some German designs.

user314 > punkgoose17 05/11/2018 at 13:38

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So like a real-life version of the GI Joe ‘Mudfighter’?

Or the BAe P.1233-1: