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U.S. Air Force ends light attack flight experiments after crash: official

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...xperiments-after-crash-official-idUSKBN1JT28O

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Air Force canceled remaining flights that were a part of its Light Attack experiment after a recent fatal crash of an A-29, an Air Force official said on Tuesday.

The experiment was being run to gather additional information about aircraft capabilities ahead of a possible acquisition by the Air Force. The smaller planes are more cost effective to operate for missions that do not require stealthy fighter jets like the F-35 or F-22.

The Air Force has been flying the Sierra Nevada/Embraer A-29 Super Tucano and the Textron Aviation AT-6B Wolverine in a live-fly experiment at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
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Low & slow vs. fast & stealthy. It looks like very expensive fast & stealthy won.
 
JacksinPA said:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...xperiments-after-crash-official-idUSKBN1JT28O

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Air Force canceled remaining flights that were a part of its Light Attack experiment after a recent fatal crash of an A-29, an Air Force official said on Tuesday.

The experiment was being run to gather additional information about aircraft capabilities ahead of a possible acquisition by the Air Force. The smaller planes are more cost effective to operate for missions that do not require stealthy fighter jets like the F-35 or F-22.

The Air Force has been flying the Sierra Nevada/Embraer A-29 Super Tucano and the Textron Aviation AT-6B Wolverine in a live-fly experiment at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
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Low & slow vs. fast & stealthy. It looks like very expensive fast & stealthy won.
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Not necessarily.

After Crash, Air Force Ends Test Flights of Light-Attack Planes Vying for Contract

The death of military pilot during U.S. Air Force trials of a small combat plane considered key to the Afghanistan War is not expected to hamper the project or deter the service from future experiments with different types of weapons before buying them, a top general said Tuesday. Senior Air Force officials are still planning to solicit bids for a new light-attack propellor plane from Textron’s Beechcraft and a Sierra Nevada Corp-Embraer team as soon as December, Lt. Gen Arnold Bunch, the Air Force military deputy for acquisition, said Tuesday during a briefing at the Pentagon.
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Hawkeye10 said:
We crashed one last year too:

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/...n-malfunction-led-to-a-29-super-tucano-crash/
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A drop in the bucket. The Military Offense budget is over $800 billion and perhaps over $1 trillion when all the black budgets and overlapping budgets are included. It's all Okey Dokey, just take that money out of Social Services like SS, Healthcare, Food Banks, and anything else that does not cut Big CORPORATISM budgets. "Privatize the assets and socialize the liabilities/debts."
 
DaveFagan said:
A drop in the bucket.
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It's not about money.

The Air Force doesn't want to do close air support. They've been trying to ditch the A10 for decades.

It looks like their strategy with the A29 was to buy a piece of crap. When they got shot down, they'd say it was a piece of crap, and try to weasel (once again) out of doing close air supprt.

Inter-agency feuding.
 
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