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• Attention Air Force flight line personnel: beware of propellers!

  OK, it is looking more and more like the Air Force under the leadership of General Norty Schwartz is really considering doing the unthinkable from just a couple years ago: getting serious about counter-insurgency airpower. For years, Air Force leaders... Posted Nov 12 2008, 11:04 AM by Otto with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: USAF, AT-6, COIN aircraft 2, danger room, General Schwartz

• A new document outlinings costs for acquiring a COIN aircraft, good work by Major David Peeler, Jr.

  Many people have come here based on this proposal for acquiring an AT-6 aircraft for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Iraq , Afghanistan , or other places like the Philippines . There have been some of our readers including some friends and colleages... Posted Feb 10 2008, 11:17 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: AT-6, COIN aircraft 2

• here's an idea: Buy some Hawker Beechcraft AT-6's as a companion trainer for USAF UAV squadrons

  USAF File photo Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I flew B-52’s, SAC had a program called “Accelerated Co-Pilot Enrichment” (ACE) with a small number (around 6 as I recall) T-37B “Tweets” assigned to SAC bases with B-52’s and KC-135’s, not sure... Posted Feb 04 2008, 10:36 PM by Otto with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: USAF, AT-6, UAV

• putting to bed the COIN AT-6, but revealing a new idea: The US Air to Air Force

  When I launched the concept of Excalibur R&D, LLC , I wanted to present a demonstration of the vision for a process that could bring folks together and allow them to interact, add to the discussion, and collaborate to produce new and innovative concepts... Posted Nov 30 2007, 09:51 AM by Otto with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: USAF, AT-6, COIN aircraft 2

• airpower and counterinsurgency

  Photo above of the 6th SOS from awhile back (U.S. Air Force Photograph by Airman 1st Class Ali Flisek) In these threads, via e-mails and phone calls, I have been criticized, quite justifiably so, as to putting the cart before the horse, that is coming... Posted Aug 04 2007, 02:30 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: COIN, aircraft, AT-6