COIN Flugzeuge

[Quintus Fabius]

Die T-6A und T-6B der Griechen verfügen beide über eine optionale Bewaffnung, was aufzeigt, dass selbst die T-6A mit einer Bewaffnung beschafft werden könnte.

Von diesen Mustern ausgehend gibt es aber auch die AT-6 Wolverine, welche hiermit mal hier an dieser Stelle einbringen möchte:

https://defense.txtav.com/en/at-6

Brought to you by the same company that delivered the U.S. Air Force T-6A and U.S. Navy T-6B, the Beechcraft® AT-6 Wolverine is a multi-mission aircraft system designed to meet a wide variety of warfighter needs and accommodating 95 percent of the aircrew population.

World-class Lockheed Martin A-10C mission computer with CMC Esterline glass cockpit and flight management systems command the AT-6 Wolverine.

The AT-6 provides the most powerful allied-compatible ISR and targeting suite available with an L3 Wescam MX-15D multi-sensor suite, which provides color and IR cameras, laser designator, laser illuminator and laser rangefinder.

The AT-6 Wolverine employs a broad range of weapons that no other light attack aircraft can match. It has demonstrated light attack capabilities and full compatibility with U.S. and NATO Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) systems.

https://defense.txtav.com/en/counter-insurgency

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedin...-community

The AT-6 can carry avionics suites that support the use of precision-guided ordnance or sensor equipment to monitor enemies at sea—at a cost of between $1,000 and $2,000 per flight hour.5 The aircraft mounts more than half a dozen hard points capable of carrying Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), Paveway, or traditional “iron” bombs, rocket pods, and cannons for conducting strafing runs for troops in contact or against enemy small boats. In addition, it is well suited to carry smaller Hellfire missiles and 250-pound Small Diameter Bombs, which can destroy a single boat, car, or building without extensive collateral damage.

Such an aircraft would not require as large a support infrastructure as strike fighters. The aircraft could launch from smaller forward landing strips, with support limited to fuel, weapons, and maintenance shops, more akin to a “crop duster” strip—an advantage when insurgent groups have proven their ability to launch mortar and suicide attacks against even heavily defended airfields such as Bagram. A squadron of AT-6s dispersed among multiple smaller airfields would make it much more difficult for insurgents to take out an entire squadron.

Flying from distributed unimproved strips, COIN aircraft also would be able to provide close air support more quickly than traditional strike fighters. Strike fighters are fast, but when seconds count, a turboprop COIN aircraft based 10 miles away could support troops in contact faster than an F/A-18 200 or 300 miles away.

https://www.airforce-technology.com/proj...t/?cf-view

https://www.twz.com/39302/the-air-force-...k-aircraft