Combat crop duster

[WallShadow]

Remember the OV-10 Bronco? 2 turboprop engines, wide variety of combat loads (including an option of 4-5 paratroops snuggled into the back of the fuselage). Re-open the production lines and call back those that have been farmed out for fire-fighting duty. They've already done some fine work in the Middle East against ISIS.

[Olefin]

Agree with you on the OV-10 - in the East Kenya Sourcebook I had the Army pull several of them out of storage and use them in Africa for close air support when there were no Air Force units available to go to Africa during the initial deployment and the Army needed something better than helicopters for attacking tanks and armored vehicles from the air

[rcaf_777]

Originally Posted by WallShadow

Re-open the production lines and call back those that have been farmed out for fire-fighting duty. They've already done some fine work in the Middle East against ISIS.

In 2009 Boeing put together plans internally to build a modernized, improved version of the Bronco, called the OV-10X, to satisfy a possible Air Force requirement for a light attack plane. According to Pentagon and industry officials, while the aircraft would maintain much of its 1960s-vintage rugged external design, modernizations would include a computerized glass cockpit, intelligence sensors and smart-bomb-dropping capabilities.

http://www.ov-10bronco.net/Technical...rd_2009_01.pdf