I like this little jet. I'm not sure who it's supposed to be for, but I like it.Post neat little military planes to keep it company.Turboprops welcome.
>>64542432It's the first world's equivalent of the Super Tucano.
It might not be flashy like the big jets, but maintenance has got to be easier and cheaper when most of the parts are off the shelf.
>>64542436It lost to the Tucano and the Wolverine in the US trials, but surely someone will pick up this lil fella.
>I recognize that bulge
Here's another neat little plane, the Cessna A-37.I think I just like when Cessna makes warplanes because it's unexpected from a company known for making the aerial equivalent of minivans.
Most underrated aircraft of Vietnam IMO, and dirt cheap compared to the F-4 and others.
Apparently Peru and some other Central/South American countries are still flying them today. Gotta love a reliable aircraft.
>>64542472You should see the helicopter they tried to sell
>>64542486Did they just take a plane they already made and put its bits on the wrong places?
>>64542447No one will pick it up because Textron wants complete control over the right for being solely responsible for maintenance and repairs as well as being far more expensive than the Super Tucano and the AT6.
Some interwar and early 20th century fighters were less than the weight of a medium sized car. Is there anything even semi modern that comes close in that weight and size department? I guess the SUPER TOOK is close. Something like the F-5 family but even lighter and cheaper.
>>64542525It's not that much more expensive, up front or per hour. It's just that being beholden to a foreign contractor to keep your aircraft flying part that's a problem.
>>64542481Nice.
>>64542458no hud?
>>64542432I just want one with swing wings so it could be a babby Tomcat
It's stretching the definition of "small" but, I've grown really infatuated with the F16 as of late
IMO not just best little jet, but best overall value today, and smartest buy.If Italians use a Russian design it must be pretty good.Now China has taken well proven "immortal" basic design and fully modernized it.It can carry the missiles that shot down Rafales, basically as fast as an F-35, and they got versions doing carrier ops, from real carriers at sea, not painted parking lot.Pentagon shoulda worked with Italians to do WTF China is doing and force USAF, USN, USMC to standardize on Yak-130 for 2nd string fighter, lite strike and trainer.
>>64542436Wait, isn't the Tucano US made? I've never looked it up, but I thought it was something we made for trainers/huehue ops.
>>64543586Embraer is a Brazilian company.
>>64543558>If Italians use a Russian design it must be pretty good.More like the Russians use an italian design. 90% of the work was made by Aermacchi, especially when they had to move back to Venegono within 4 months of the JV starting due to russians not being able to fund their own labs.
>>64543558Also, we just saw the L-15 perform for the first time with the Al Fursan and they already are leaking hydraulic fluid. So much for chinese quality.
>>64543637KEK
>>64543558Anything made in china is by default inferior to the original thing.
>>64543637Hmmmm, now where have I seen that before....
>>64543634Top left is the EADS Mako, which is German.
>>64543682yep my bad, no idea why it was in my aermacchi folder.
>>64542432Weaponized trainers are tight
>>64543637she's on her period.
>>64543598Oh shit. I always thought Embraer was British. No clue where I got that notion. In my crackpipe history, it was a British civilian design made into a trainer by the US, which became the more popular model.
A4 is the gigachad of small jets.
>>64542432Taiwan's little twin-engine F-16 lookalike.
>I just think it's neat
>>64544326TRVKE
>>64544339>The fighter jet equivalent of a Hapa
>>64543586US Tucanos would be made in Brazil and imported by Sierra-Nevada Corp
>>64544310The British bought the licence for the Tucano and made a bunch of modifications to it (bigger engine, stronger wing spars) that was then built by Short Brothers in Belfast, and called it the Short Tucano.This was only retired from RAF service a few years ago
>>64544568northern irish are manlet cucks confirmed
>>64544784Excuse my ignorance, but who is that little cutie?
>>64544795>FAT
Folland Gnat. They don't get much smaller than that.
>>64544818Douglas F4D Skyray
This is still a credible light ground attack aircraft . . . right?
>>64544946 For a jet yes.
>>64542432
combat record be damned, it looks neat as hell
>>64545430F-16 of its time
>>64542486>Goofy if he was a helicopter
>>64542432>Turboprops welcome.I'm gonna go one step further and give you a 200 hp piston engine.Valmet L-70 "Vinka", finnish basic trainer from 1970s.Only 30 were ever built for finnish air force, it wasn't exported anywhere.Say something nice about her.
Don’t fly any higher Icarus or you will see the sun up close
Picture of me and a squad mate in northern Syria watching our CAS (A10) do a show of force overhead.
>>64543558so they basically just ripped off the italian trainer and called it a day? How can the chinese not be embarassed at the fact they can't come up with something by themselves?
>>64546795great artists steal, as the saying goes
>>64546809Yeah, but they usually improve the thing they stole from. While every chink knockoff is worse than the western counterpart.
>>64546795>How can the chinese not be embarassed at the fact they can't come up with something by themselves?Shame and embarrassment are human emotions, that's why
>>64545200The avrocar would be feasible with modern technology.Just saying.
>>64542447I read these are super cheap to fly
>>64544339FUCK-1 CHING KUO
>>64543558They're already replacing it
>>64547380Best display team in asia. Their manouvre with the 5 circles is amazing.
>>64547567looks like they just gave it a twin tail for carrier deck height limit operations.
>>64545200What an odd thing to design...
On the 7th of January in 2028, little more than 2 years from now this brat will become the first combat aircraft to see 100 years of continuous service.
>>64542531Based, and thread winner
>>64549295What was that Martin Sheen movie about the US Navy?
>>64549313*Charlie.Hot Shots.
>>64544444Nice pents but that's a Pilatus PC-9
>>64551126the A-29 isn't a PC-9
>>64551284my bad, thought it was a Texan
>>64546253>gross weight 1050 kgVery svelte and athletic girl.
>>64542447>It lost to the Tucano
>>64548951It was just a little ahead of its time. Touted as a "flying jeep", it's basically a hovercraft before we figured out how to hovercraft.There were all sorts of funny hovercraft developments at the time.
>>64542432Scaled composite ARES.Funky burt rutan blitzfighter autism plane built around the harrier 25mm
>>64549747smol
>>64549747>Bud Light jet? Hell yeah I wonder what this little thing is>reverse image search >Article: Why Did This Crazy Kitplane Kill So Many Pilots?Oh what a mischievous little scamp!
>>64542472>>64542473>>64542481>>64542483>>64548873>>64548879love me a super tweet
>>64543715Hear hear.
>>64557581>>64557590>>64557592>Northrop had high hopes for the F-20 in the international market, but policy changes following Ronald Reagan's election meant the F-20 had to compete for sales against aircraft like the F-16, the USAF's latest fighter design.>The development program was abandoned in 1986 after three prototypes had been built and a fourth partially completedLe jelly bean merchant strikes again.
>>64558676Carter's export policy was retarded to begin with
No love for Yugokino?
>>64558785
>>64558797They also have a neat ground attack aircraft developed alongside the Romanians.
>>64558801In standard scheme...
>>64551901That's a Redigo, not a Vinka. These were exported and there are a number in the U.S... If you are looking to spot them, I see them a lot on my ADS-B Exchange radar screen flying at the Avon Park Air Force Bombing Range in Florida, but not this week since F-16s are using the area (according to a guy I know who works ATC at an air base in FL).>>64546253Not little plane. Always liked them and the Bulldog.Keeping with the Yugo theme, this is what they came up with as a trainer.
>>64558809>NotNice... Misspelled it as nit and autocorrect did the rest... :/>>64558803I have two more Orao pictures.
>>64558812Best for last.
>>64558815Just realized that I had a picture of the Romanian version too. Might as well dump my Romanian aircraft pics (not a lot of them, unfortunately).
>>64558842This is equivalent to the G-4, but features a straight wing, like a MB-339, as opposed to the swept Hawk-like wing on the G-4.I cannot find a picture, but there is one of these in the colors of the Romanian flag.
>>64558851They also did something really kino to the Puma when the Romanian government was given a production loicense.Say something nice about it.I have aircraft pictures from virtually every country (well, apart from countries that produce nothing, like Mongolia or Moldova or other places like that). Just ask me about an aircraft or a country and I will provide you with neat little planes.
>>64554056>Scaled ARESsomeone mentioned this on the (now-archived) Never Should've Been threadI asked 'what was so bad about it'
>>64557581>>64557590>>64557592>>64558676tandem trainer of this would've been kino
>>64548883these are rarely mentioned
>>64558862good pics anon, keep it upWhat cannon is under nose?
>>64566268another one I'd like for private hangar
>>64566894M621 20mm the French use it as a door gunner weapon. It is also the nose mounted gun on the HAL Rudra and HAL Prachand helicopters.
>>64566960Another Romanian project which was supposed to turn the Alouette III into an attack helicopter.
>>64566968Forgot the picture.
Unrelated, but how has this not been mentioned yet?
>>64566992Surely I can't be the only guy who likes the Puccy.
>>64567000With a SF260TP here. My turkey needs roasting, so that is all for now, but I promise more South American types later or tomorrow...
>>64566992>>64567000>>64567019it's like a newer Duck
>>64566992>how has this not been mentioned yet
>>64566971Was just reading about this goofy looking dude earlierVery janky, very cool
Another aircraft from Argentina. The FMA IA-63 Pampa. It recently got its first export order. Before you ask, Dornier provided technical assistance, hence the resemblance to an Alpha Jet.
>>64569970LM is also providing assistance for the newest variant. Picrel
This type (the ENAER T-35) is quite curious. The design started out as a license of the Piper Arrow, but it was then strengthened and given a bubble cockpit to make it a true modern trainer.
>>64569980
The last aircraft for today is the Neiva Universal. Nothing is really notable about it... Just an trainer, truth be told, but it is visually appealing and this picture is sexo.
>>64569980>>64569981neat
>>64554056>>64561848>Scaled Composites ARESno evaluations from the /k/ brain trust?
>>64543558That bird's head below the cockpit is literally the logo of Cebu Pacific, a cheap airliner from flipland.
>>64543715>>64561855WEAPONIZED TRAINERS?
>>64546795This is the nation of virgin boy eggs, gutter oil, and kowtow culture. What makes you think that they're capable of embarrassment?
>>64546785neat
>>64577553also there are three people in that image, or the guy on the left's got an extra legor it's sloppa
OUT OF MY WAY UGGOS
>>64567500
>>64544339Hot
>>64577557There are 3 people in the image. The dude standing in front of me is like 5'2" so he's hard to see. Here is the original image uncropped.
>>64579920>dude standing in front of me is like 5'2" so he's hard to seewee lad
>>64567500>>64578407The last remaining Broncos in combat were retired in December 28 2024
