post photographs of counter-insurgency aircraftpiston engine, turboprop, or jet powered
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Counter Fire
>>64664109>duplicated fileFugg
>The RoK's existence as a Imperialist puppet regime was a insurgency against the rightful rulers of KoreaIt's a COIN aircraft.
>>64664566The fact that Vietnam has around 250 of these awesome things sitting in boneyards or mothballed in caves is always a source of amazement. >the other 95 aircraft would be operated by the Vietnam People's Air Force in missions over Cambodia and during the China conflict in 1979. >Imagine being a Communist Vietnamese A-37 pilot doing attack missions over a PRC city at night in the 1970s
>>64662873Serious question: Do these things even work? Like, on doctrinal level? I mean, it's likely just my own ignorance, but none of these seem to have had any impact to be particularly recognizable. I feel compelled to ask, since it's a bit odd they've (figuratively, but pun intended) flown under my radar.
>>64664811>Serious question: Do these things even work? Like, on doctrinal level?The secret is that they were ordered for low-level military support where it is legally imperative that a Vietnamese officer takes the second seat and directs the actual action.They work fine for that specific purpose, but got put into storage once the US started actually bombing the shit outta the Vietnamese.
>>64664811 (me)Addendum: To be more specific, I mean in a pure counter-insurgency function, disregarding light attack (which can be done by some fighters or trainers) and gunships, which are radically different designs with missions all of their own.>>64664825True. Good point.
