FutureWARTHINK 030: Is This CASMAS? Close Air Support/Maneuver Air Support (Christmas)?
WHO names their
Observation/Attack candidate plane after Wiley Coyote who constantly
gets his ass kicked by Road Runner? in the Warner Brothers cartoons?
No one raised his hand at the corporate meeting and said; "Sir, Wiley Coyote is NOT a kick-ass character...quite the opposite...just saying"
Boss: "You're fired!"
Notice the moronic ignorant remarks at the bottom of the military.com web page referenced below going thru what we've already examined for YEARS in the MASWG Yahoo Group now WOKETARD-eliminated...
No, A-1 SkyRaider's gasoline radial piston engine could take a lot of battle damage but its Dark Shark replacement's contraprops to increase power without dangerous torque--like the U.K.'s Fairey Gannet and Russian Tu-95 engines can do--didn't work.
It's wings do FOLD and THAT--is the critical capability missing in 4x of the candidates--GROUND MOBILITY to not be vulnerable FOB dependent where they will be Destroyed-On-The-Ground (D.O.T.G.). The Gannet could do the Armed Overwatch mission--IF it were still being built!
https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2021/03/future-warthink-022-missing-usn-asw.html
QUOTE:
The U.S. military, as a whole, has been exploring concepts of operations in recent years that focus heavily on being able to operate from austere and remote areas with very limited infrastructure in the event that large, established bases are destroyed or are otherwise unavailable.
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https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2021/03/future-warthink-022-missing-usn-asw.html
The dumb asses pontificating on drones don't understand they can't see shit and HUNT elusive foes like on-the-scene humans can--2x of them. The dumb asses bragging on the absurdly single-seat, A-10 don't realize its the KILLER that can't economically fly 24/7/365 to HUNT and detect enemies like light O/A aircraft can. The A-10 is to be AFAC directed by the O/A plane to hit laser/GPS or pyrotechnically-marked targets. Even the commies understood this using AN-2 Colt biplanes as the O/A/L HUNTERS. The A-10 should be owned & operated by the U.S. ARMY with folding wings, downward-depressing autocannon and a 2nd seat for an enlisted JTAC observer/emergency pilot.
www.combatreform.org/aircommandos.htm
Only the Bronco II corporatists realize the wings have to sublimate themselves for transport in ISO shipping containers for ground mobility for faster GeoStrategic global deployment and once on-the-scene, operational/tactical ground mobility to avoid D.O.T.G.
https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2021/04/retrowarthink-019-lazy-static-land-base.html
https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2021/04/retrowarthink-019a-lazy-static-land.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ixSjZj9UU
Not stipulating that these aircraft's wings fold is the USAF mental block and fatal fault of the requirements writers. They had no problem accepting F-4 Phantom IIs with folding wings.
The sturdiest, most combat damage resistant plane is the newly dubbed "Sky Warden" armored crop duster which could lay smoke and anti-drug crop agents having internal volume for this--potentially.
www.combatreform.org/smokescreen.htm
Edging closer and closer into a TRANSPORT plane, the Cessna MC-208 Guardian/Caravan is an Observation/Attack/Liaison (OAL) plane with cargo capability but not the STOL 300 foot dirt or grassy field capabilities of the Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter unwisely no longer in production much less with folding wings. However, all of the single-engined O/A planes need Recovery Parachutes (RPs) to save them in event of engine conk-out. Single-engined, OALs can with difficulty carry 4x4 Quad Bikes aka ATVs like the Beaver shown below:
However, a larger bodied OAL like the C-145A below has a rear ramp for tactical bikes to quickly RO-RO on the ground...notice its twin tails have an opening for a rear defensive 30mm autocannon turret to be effective at warding off enemy aircraft that could also swivel FORWARD for frontal firepower like the P-61 Black Widow or B-25 Mitchell. Perhaps even depress DOWNWARD over the left or right side for ground strafing? With a continuous feed of 30mm shells and a large payload to have a huge supply of these shells to its OMNI-turret, the MC-145B could be a mini-gunship ground attacker that can defend itself from enemy air attacks, too.
https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2021/05/tactismart-62-arm-yourself-transport.html
The New DC-3/C-47?
Lastly, for the
most bang is the 2x engined poorly named Wiley Coyote SkyTruck
which has 1x engine-out, self-preservational safety and is essentially a
mini-gunship with downward-pointing guns for diveless attacks from safe stand-offs...
https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2021/03/currentwarthink-004-usaf-snake-bit-by.html
...that can also paradrop a small USSOCOM team as well as STOL airland to get them out--like the UV-18 Twin Otter U.S. ARMY Special Forces had before having them taken away by USAF assholes.
MC-145C AmphiCoyote:
USOCOM wants Amphibious Transports/Gunships
Amazingly, the C-145's AN-28 predecessor the AN-714 was successfully fitted with 3x small Air Cushion Landing System (ACLS) bogies with 100x less ground pressure than wheeled landing gear which should have TWEEL airless tires from MICHELIN that can't go flat.
Conclusions:
A
lightweight 3x bogie ACLS kit should be developed for eSTOL operations.
A
floatplane with tiny TWEELS kit should also be developed for amphibious
operations.
Another
R&D option would be heavier but full fuselage ACLS like the AN-14 SH or DHC
X-8C so it could have both unsmooth land and water landing/TO capabilities.
Combine these with outer folding wings for ground mobility on trailers and/or in special ISO shipping containers to operate away from air bases/FOBs to avoid being Destroyed-On-The-Ground aka D.O.T.G.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-14
Another
unusual variant was the An-14Sh, which tested an air cushion landing gear for
unprepared landing strips. While these tests were successful, the gear impaired
the aerodynamics and only left minimal payload capacity. A precursor of the
An-14Sh had been the An-714 with inflatable floats. In China, there was
a smaller variant named Sha-Tu (or Capital) N°1.
AN-14SH
AN-14
with experimental hovercraft landing gear
https://www.aerotime.aero/25937-top-10-craziest-airliners-to-ever-fly
Another
Soviet experiment, aimed at testing the viability of using hovercraft
air-cushions instead of a landing gear. Such a contraption would allow an
aircraft to land on rough terrain, bringing air service to the remotest regions
of the Soviet Union. Several variants based on the An-14 utility plane were
built, with the An-714, sporting three
cushions
https://ruslet.webnode.cz/technika/ruska-technika/letecka-technika/o-k-antonov/an-714/
Antonov An-714
Type : experimental modification of light multipurpose aircraft type: An-14A (Clod )
Purpose: verification of the efficiency of an unconventional take-off and landing device of the SEP type (landing gear on an air cushion) using the principle of the so-called static air cushion
Differences from An-14A (Clod) :
- installation of three fixed 28 kg SEP-type bogie modules with a circular cross-section, working on the same principle as the hovercraft "bogie", instead of a fixed three-point bow-type wheeled bogie - while one of these modules is located below the tip of the fuselage, the other two are mounted under the side fuselage "stumps", which originally served as the main chassis beam (air under the lower surface of the circular base of these modules, which is surrounded by a flexible inflatable cuff, while blowing hydraulic centrifugal blowers spun by 22 hp hydraulic pumps type GM-36 which are powered by the aircraft's own engines)
History : The first practical tests of the landing gear using the principle of the so-called static air cushion, ie; the same principle as the "landing gear" of the hovercraft, were carried out in aviation in the USSR as early as 1940. surface, or of VPD covered with a thick layer of snow. The formation of a static air cushion is due to the high difference in air pressure between the space under the fuselage, which is surrounded by a flexible cuff, and the external environment. This can be achieved with a powerful blower. Tests of such a landing gear were carried out for the first time in the USSR on a specially modified training aircraft type UT-2 (Mink), known as SEN. The designation was based on the surnames of the authors of the take-off and landing equipment of this machine, engineers of the CAGI (Central Institute of Aeronautics and Hydrodynamics) NI Efremov and AD Nadiradze. Because the landing gear of the SEN aircraft appeared to be a successful design, in 1941 the designers designed a similar takeoff and landing device for a dive bomber type Pe-2 (Buck). However, work on this topic failed to reach the stage of flight tests, because in the meantime German troops unexpectedly invaded the territory of the USSR. Research into the take-off and landing equipment using the hovercraft "landing gear" principle in the USSR was not resumed until 1970. At that time, one copy of the light twin-engine multi-purpose An-14A (Clod) type). Specifically, it was an experimental take-off and landing device of the SEP type (air cushion landing gear) from the workshop of I. Berezhnov. This non-traditional landing gear was designed by the aforementioned designer in a special design office focused on the development of aircraft landing gear, which was located in Kuibyshev. The SEP type take-off and landing facility consisted of three separate units with a circular base. While on the upper surface of the circular base of each of these units was the installation of a hydraulic centrifugal blower, its lower surface was surrounded by an annular inflatable elastic cuff, similar to the lower surface of the hovercraft fuselage. The blowers, which blew air into the space below the circular chassis bases surrounded by a flexible sleeve, spun 22 hp GM-36 type hydraulic pumps. Their propulsion was provided by the aircraft's own piston propulsion units in the form of two air-cooled 300 hp Al-14RF engines. The only An-14A modified in this way (Clod) received the designation An-714 and registration "CCCP" (without number) and detached from the runway for the first time on October 20, 1970. Seven in the designation of this machine referred to the number of the MAP (Ministry of Aeronautics) . While the only An-714 aircraft was able to detach from the concrete runway at a speed of 90 km / h after a take-off of 117 m, the take-off length of this machine from a surface covered with 30 to 40 cm of snow was 130 m. Take off and land the only prototype of the An-714 could with the crosswind, which blew at a speed of up to 15 m / s. At the same time, the chassis of this machine acted on the surface of the VPD with a pressure of 0.07 atmospheres, ie 100 times less pressure than the classic three-point wheel chassis. Even so, the SEP-type take-off and landing facility proved to be a dead end in development. Thanks to the relatively high working pressure, which was 850 kg / m2 , and in a relatively small area it ripped pieces of soil from the surface of the runway and threw them directly against the blowers and power units. For this reason, tests of a single copy of the An-714 aircraft were completely stopped in 1971.
Version :
Made : one copy (created by converting serial An-14A)
Users : none (research machine only)
Crew: one pilot
Drive: two piston engines type Ivchenko Al-14RF with a maximum power of 300 hp
TTD:
Wingspan: 21.99 m
Length: 11.36
m
Height: ?
Empty weight: ?
Max. take-off
weight: ?
Max. speed: ?
Practical
access: ?
Max. range: ?
Last modification made on: 12.4.2013
C-145A ModelVISION!
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/aeroplast-90043-c-145--936226
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M28_Skytruck
If an engine fails, a spoiler forward of the aileron opens automatically on the opposite wing.[2] This limits the wing drop to 12° in five seconds instead of 30°.[3]
It is capable of Short takeoff & landing (STOL) and hot and high altitude operations.[1] Aerodynamically deployed leading edge slats when approaching stall speed enable a 64 kn (119 km/h) low stall speed and while the certification landing field is 1,640 ft (500 m), PZL has demonstrated landing in 512 ft (156 m).[1] Inlet air ducts inertial separators and inverted configuration of the PT6 and the high wing configuration protect the engines and propellers against foreign object damage for unprepared runways operations.
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From smallest to largest:
Armed, Armored Crop Duster History
http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v3/v3n3/articles/ayres.html
QUOTE:
The Ayres V-1-A Vigilante is essentially the NEDS aircraft modified for strike duties. Development was funded by the U.S. Army Electro-Optical Survivability Program and the State Department, so the aircraft may have been intended to give State its own, organic close-support force. The Vigilante is identical to the NEDS except that it is equipped to carry weapons rather than spraying equipment. There are four weapons pylons under each wing and three tandem pylons under the fuselage. The innermost pylon on each wing can carry up to 1200 lbs, while the three outer pylons can carry 350 lb each. Possible loads include pods of 70-mm rockets, 7.62-, 12.7-, or 20-mm gun pods, bombs, napalm canisters, and Stinger missiles. A wide range of surveillance equipment has also been tested on the aircraft, including FLIR and LLTV night-vision cameras, and IR linescan, along with video-recorders and data-links for storing and transmitting the imagery.
In 1989, the U.S. Border Patrol tested the Vigilante in the nocturnal border-surveillance role. The experiment was highly successful, but there was no funding available. No other orders seem to have materialized either.
The Ayres Turbo-Thrush S2R-T65/400 NEDS and the V-1-A Vigilante have a maximum speed of about 250 mph and an economical cruising speed around 170 mph. Stalling speed with flaps extended is 58 mph. The wings span 44 ft 5 in, and the fuselage is 33-ft long. Wing area totals 336 sq-ft. Empty weight is about 4900 lbs and maximum takeoff-and-landing weight is 10,500 lbs. STOL performance is impressive. At light loads, the aircraft can take off in as little as 395 ft. Fully loaded, the take-off run is 1250 ft. Using reverse-thrust, the airplanes can land in as little as 500 ft. Range with full internal fuel loads is 1036 mi. If external tanks are carried, range increases to 2015 mi. More importantly, the aircraft can loiter for up to 7 hours flying at a steady 69 mph.
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So it comes down to either A.) operating away from FOBs which means the Bronco II's ground mobility which is ironically what the LARA Bronco I was supposed to be until its 20-foot wings were extended making it air base dependent
www.combatreform.org/killerbees2.htm
...or the crop duster's STOL versus the trade-off of no internal fuselage operator or cargo payload vs. b.) being a P-51 like, sexy light fighter-bomber akin to the Piper PA-48 Enforcer turboprop we could have had from 1969. Which means the AT-6C Wolverine Attack Trainer (AT) vs. c.) being essentially a small OAL Grasshopper STOL transport plane that isn't highly maneuverable or combat damage-resistant excepting having 2x engines vs. aka the Wiley Coyote.
A LARA or Crop Duster or AT or single or twin-engined OAL.
These are the 5x choices under review.
The smaller planes can pull Gs and do diving attacks and possibly evade SAMs but even SU-25 Frogfoot attack jets have been downed by the latest Russian missiles.
My guess is the
pussy USAF doesn't realize it MUST stop operating from comfy air bases and with
its civilian airliner attitude anyway will pick the C-145 SkyTruck/Wiley
Coyote it's already operating from comfy overseas air bases. It can
attack without diving low exposing itself to myriad of enemy anti-aircraft
fires by virtue of downward pointing guns/cannon and guided missiles. Frankly, the U.S. ARMY should put 30mm autocannon in 360
degree revolving turrets under its RC-12 King Airs to get mini-gunship,
dive-less firepower as soon as targets are spotted:
www.combatreform.org/killerbees3.htm
A small SMU team can also parachute jump from RC-12/King Airs...just watch the superb movie, "Point Break"--the 1991 original.
Part 1
Part 2
Once on the ground, the MC-145B-delivered, SMU can have ground/water mobility by way of small tactical vehicles like pedal-only or eBikes, QuadBikes aka ATVs, carts, tracked snowmobiles, jet skis etc.
https://jamesbondisreal.blogspot.com/2021/03/spythink-052-retrowarthink-018-play.html
The Armed Overwatch priorities--should be--but are sadly not:
1. Folding wings for ground mobility to operate away from FOBs avoiding D.O.T.G.
2. Under 1, 000 feet STOL to not need long even RHINO SNOT-hardened assault landing zones/runways/whatever; eSTOL amphibious operations by skis, floats or ACLS
www.combatreform.org/c130.htm
3. Combat hardened to include armoring, ejection seats, RPs and airless TWEEL tires
4. Guns/Cannon pointing downwards for dive-less, stand-off attacking
5. Cargo capability to paradrop at least a 4-man SMU team and their small military vehicles ; the tail-dragger armored/armed crop duster could achieve this by adding seating behind the observer akin to the proposed OV-1 LARA upgrade, French Voltigeur etc.; the AT Wolverine probably can't and would need GRIER pods under its wings--which might be intolerable to operators:
www.combatreform.org/escape.htm
So the fascinating question is....
Can the MC-145's outer wings be FOLDED and a suitable ISO shipping
container/trailer found for it to have the vital ground mobility to avoid
D.O.T.G.?
www.m28aircraft.com/generalInformations/performance
It appears that if the MC-145's outer wings folded like the C-2 Greyhound/E-2D Hawkeye's it would be 17 feet across on top and 12 foot across on the bottom's landing gear.
The standard highway lane width is 12 feet.
The standard width for a two lane road is 24 feet. This was based on historical vehicle widths and reasonable separation between vehicles travelling opposite directions. Here is what the AN-28's ground mobility on skis with outer wings removed looks like.
There ARE flat bed trailers that could move a folded-wing MC-145 IF its outer wings can fold comparable to a CASA 212.
https://www.heavyhaulers.com/airplane-transport.php
Shipping a Fuselage Casa 212 Airplane
Shipping From:
Baltimore, MD
Transporting To: Howell, MI
Specs: 1 Fuselage Casa 212; 49L x 11W x10H; 6,000lbs
Transport Specialist: Chad C.
(754) 704-0244
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1/2 the Short Take-Off (STO) run reduced by a 12 degree ski jump-equipped mobility trailer. If lacking this linear length, an eXtremely Short Take-Off (eSTO) can be had by a round pad created by the Super Gavin's dozer blade; a Quik-Release cable to the wingtip tethered to a pole erected from a Fire Fighting Water Super Gavin enables it to go around 'til reaching lift-off and release in the desired direction. An old eSTOL Piper Cub grasshopper trick in modern militarized form.
These Are the 5 Planes Vying to Be AFSOC's New Armed Overwatch Aircraft
17 May 2021
Military.com | By
Stephen Losey
U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, announced Friday it has awarded contracts totaling $19.2 million to five companies to produce prototype aircraft for its Armed Overwatch program.
In a notice published on the U.S. federal contracting website, SOCOM said that the awards will go to Leidos Inc. of Reston, Virginia; MAG Aerospace of Fairfax, Virginia; Textron Aviation Defense of Wichita, Kansas; L-3 Communications Integrated Systems of Waco, Texas; and Sierra Nevada Corp. of Sparks, Nevada.
The Armed Overwatch program is Air Force Special Operations Command's effort to field a series of flexible, fixed-wing aircraft that could be deployed to austere regions and require only a light logistical footprint to operate. AFSOC commander Lt. Gen. Jim Slife told reporters in February he hopes Armed Overwatch aircraft could keep pressure on violent extremist organizations in places such as some parts of Africa, where extremist groups operate but the airspace is largely uncontested.
Slife said then that Armed Overwatch planes could conduct both intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, as well as close-air support and precision strike missions to support ground troops.
In a previous announcement on the program in April 2020, SOCOM said it planned to buy about 75 Armed Overwatch planes.
SOCOM said Friday that the five awardees will work on and demonstrate their prototypes primarily at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; that process should be complete by March 2022.
The aircraft being considered include Leidos' Bronco II, MAG Aerospace's MC-208 Guardian, Textron's AT-6E Wolverine, L-3's AT-802U Sky Warden, and Sierra Nevada's MC-145B Wily Coyote.
The Air Force in recent years looked at Textron's AT-6 as part of its experiment with light attack aircraft; in 2019, it said it expects to buy two or three of them. The first AT-6E was delivered to the service in February.
Leidos announced in May 2020 that it had developed the Bronco II to meet SOCOM's needs and compete for the Armed Overwatch program. In March, MAG Aerospace announced the launch of the MC-208, which is based on the C-208 Cessna.
L-3 announced the single-engine turboprop Sky Warden earlier this month.
Sierra Nevada has not made any public announcements about the MC-145B. But for more than a decade, AFSOC has flown a variant called the C-145A Combat Coyote, primarily for combat air adviser missions.
Slife said AFSOC hopes that, as it brings on new planes for Armed Overwatch that can collect intelligence, it will be able to pull its costly U-28A Draco aircraft out of the field. The Draco is a small aircraft adapted from the Pilatus PC-12, which is capable of landing in small, rough airfields and flying in remote areas.
But the Draco is also an expensive plane to keep in the air. Because there are so few of them and they are not standard aircraft, it requires specialized equipment, maintenance and training to sustain them. This takes airmen away from bigger missions, driving up the cost of maintenance.
"At the end of the day, the Armed Overwatch platform will be less expensive to operate, [and] it will be more versatile than the U-28," Slife said in February.
-- Oriana Pawlyk contributed to this report.
-- Stephen Losey can be reached at stephen.losey@military.com. Follow him on Twitter @StephenLosey.
Related: Air Force Pitches 'Armed Overwatch' Planes to Patrol Austere Regions, Police Africa Extremism
The command is planning flight demonstrations later this year for aircraft capable of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions and of close-air support and precision strike in support of ground troops, he said.
"I think SOCOM [Special Operations Command] envisions this as more of a multirole platform that can perform level delivery of precision munitions," he said. "The first step really is getting to a flying demonstration, which we anticipate is going to take place in the coming months."
SOCOM is looking for a robust platform that is "survivable enough to operate in the environment that we anticipate it operating in," Slife said. That doesn't include expensive fighter jets that require ejection seats to bail out should the aircraft go down within enemy territory.
The aircraft must be able to "provide the intelligence needed to remain aware of the threat and to take action where necessary and has a kinetic capability to take action when necessary without drawing a lot of attention to our host nations that may be hosting those operations," he said.
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Will the SkyTruck become the Modern-Day Mossie?
"633 Squadron"
https://tubitv.com/movies/302716/mosquito-squadron?start=true
Semper
https://www.combatreform.org/2LTMichaelSparksUSMCR.htm
Airborne!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkRaE3UEags
Commander Ian Fleming RNVR 1939-51 wrote the James Bond 007 books/movies for the Information Research Division (IRD) of MI6-SIS who he worked for as a Master Spy under journalistic cover from 1933-39 and 1945-1964 when he was murdered (as concluded by legendary investigative reporter, Jim Marrs to me) to prevent him publicly condemning the Warren Commission white wash of the CIA's group ambush murder of his friend, President John F. Kennedy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hlwjiDU6qoF1/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jHwnQ76xxh4P/
https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Sj9CnXlfNz62/
http://www.jamesbondisforreal.com
James Bond is REAL.
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