TIL There's A Ground Attack Conversion Of The Cessna 208 Caravan

"S65" (granthp) 07/13/2017 at 12:53 • Filed to: AC-208 Combat Caravan, Cessna, Cessna 208 Caravan, Ground attack, Conversations, Military aircraft

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And it has the capability to fire the AGM-114 Hellfire ASM missile. Currently only the Iraqi air force uses it. ATK carries out the conversion.

CalzoneGolem > S65 07/13/2017 at 12:56

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That’s kinda like this.

Ash78, voting early and often > S65 07/13/2017 at 12:57

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Best plane just got better.

I was aware of this a while back. I balked at the idea, but I heard part of the rationale was low cost, good reliability, low-tech, and something that couldn’t be easily used against us if it fell into the wrong hands.

S65 > CalzoneGolem 07/13/2017 at 12:58

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What the fuck

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > S65 07/13/2017 at 12:59

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The Air Force used Skymasters as air support aircraft in Vietnam.

CalzoneGolem > S65 07/13/2017 at 13:01

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa_150_TAP

bwp240 > S65 07/13/2017 at 13:14

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This is your Captain speaking, we are going to be making a small diversion as we need to blow up this submarine that can be viewed out the left windows.

AuthiCooper1300 > CalzoneGolem 07/13/2017 at 13:31

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I’ve seen one of those “in the metal”.

It looks even crazier than in the picture.

AuthiCooper1300 > bwp240 07/13/2017 at 13:31

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I don’t think that one exists... yet.

Also - left windows?

facw > bwp240 07/13/2017 at 13:34

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We can do that too:

The P-8 is a 737 with a torpedo bay (and many other toys).

AuthiCooper1300 > Ash78, voting early and often 07/13/2017 at 13:34

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The other part being that there is a huge market for COIN aircraft.

Hadn’t someone tried to revive the Mustang for that role, back in the day?

bwp240 > AuthiCooper1300 07/13/2017 at 13:36

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that explains why it was so hard to find pictures of it...

AuthiCooper1300 > bwp240 07/13/2017 at 13:45

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Computer-generated pics here (I think). Maybe you’ve already seen this site:

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/a319mpa/