Moderadores: Lepanto, poliorcetes, Edu, Orel
The Future of COIN
Feb. 1, 2020
How the Air Force is preparing for counterinsurgency in 2030.
US Special Operations plans to buy 75 light attack aircraft for Armed Overwatch programme
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“Armed Overwatch will provide Special Operations Forces deployable and sustainable manned aircraft systems fulfilling close air support, precision strike, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in austere and permissive environments,” says the notice.
The programme is similar to a faltering light attack experiment within the USAF, which aims to show light attack aircraft, specifically the AT-6 and A-29, could cheaply boost the air-to-ground attack capabilities of US allies and foreign partners. To further that experiment, the service announced in October 2019 that it planned to give Textron and Sierra Nevada orders for purchase of two to three light attack aircraft each.
The Armed Overwatch programme is closer to the USAF light attack experiment’s original goal of providing the US military with a cheaper alternative for air-to-ground attack missions, compared with expensive-to-fly fourth and fifth generation fighters
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poliorcetes escribió:Es tremendo. Cada dos años, vuelta la burra al trigo
Cuando es evidente que el F-35 no le sustituye
Son los Reaper su sustituto natural, no va a ver otro avión como ese.
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