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2022-08-02 Science & Technology

SOCOM Orders Cropduster Attack Planes from L3Harris Technologies

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-02 08:17|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 So that's where all the fentanyl is going!

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-02 11:07|| 2022-08-02 11:07|| Front Page Top

#2 All the manufacturing jigs are long gone for the A-1 Skyraider so I guess this will do... There are things that the Network-centric™ Stealth™ Supercruise™ Wunderwaffe are just too bloody expensive to use for.

Posted by magpie 2022-08-02 11:28|| 2022-08-02 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 The Skyraider. A P-47 on steroids. A Warthog with a propeller. Badass aircraft, no matter how obsolete it is.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-02 11:36|| 2022-08-02 11:36|| Front Page Top

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-02 11:38|| 2022-08-02 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 We built a number of them for the counter drug, INL, contract in South America. They are not the sky raider. They are an armored air tractor. They can lift a ton, have multiple pylons and the PT6 and pilots cockpit is fully armored. A really cool slow speed ground support aircraft.

Posted by 49 Pan 2022-08-02 11:52|| 2022-08-02 11:52|| Front Page Top

#6 My favorite aircraft model picture was the side on view of a Navy A-1 Skyraider with a big, Black 'Mig kill' marking... :Heh: Some poor fool decided to do a head on pass.

Posted by magpie 2022-08-02 12:15|| 2022-08-02 12:15|| Front Page Top

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