{"id":191196,"date":"2009-09-13T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/13\/usaf-light-attack-program-proceeds\/"},"modified":"2009-09-13T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T18:20:00","slug":"usaf-light-attack-program-proceeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/13\/usaf-light-attack-program-proceeds\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF Light Attack Program Proceeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 410px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img4.imageshack.us\/img4\/4969\/00000123aaae646d15eb669.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img4.imageshack.us\/img4\/4969\/00000123aaae646d15eb669.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Boeing OV-10X Bronco<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img4.imageshack.us\/img4\/9868\/5949d544dedf42b193c3ecf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img4.imageshack.us\/img4\/9868\/5949d544dedf42b193c3ecf.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>Hawker Beechcraft T-6<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It looks like the USAF is getting serious about buying <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">something<\/span> to provide close air support in a counter-insurgency scenario, and we are now seeing the Boeing (originally North American Rockwell)It looks like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2009\/09\/photo-boeing-pitches-ov-10x-br.html\">OV-10X Bronco<\/a> and the Hawker Beechcraft (originally Pilatus PC-9) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A0df3a362-3d4a-4b38-9d32-76dd8edb8d6c\">AT-6 Texan II<\/a> being developed for these roles.<\/p>\n<p>My own inclination would be to go with the Bronco.  Twin engines, which can mitigate the effect of a lucky shot with an AK, along with a history of operating in austere conditions, works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing OV-10X Bronco Hawker Beechcraft T-6 It looks like the USAF is getting serious about buying something to provide close air support in a counter-insurgency scenario, and we are now seeing the Boeing (originally North American Rockwell)It looks like the OV-10X Bronco and the Hawker Beechcraft (originally Pilatus PC-9) AT-6 Texan II being developed for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}