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• Iraq to buy 36 armed AT-6's! Hmmm perhaps some of these ideas here aren't too far out after all...

  Big Hat Tip to Defense Industry Daily here . Iraq has announced the intention not only of buying 20 trainer versions of the Hawker Beechcraft T-6 but an additional 36 of the armed version called the AT-6B, company website here . Well now, the Iraqi Air... Posted Dec 13 2008, 03:18 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: Iraq, aviation, COIN, Excalibur, USAF, AT-6, COIN aircraft 2, CoIN aircraft

• Pot about to boil over?: will the Air Force soon buy a propeller driven attack and ISR aircraft?

  Numerous articles in various industry publications have hinted or reported that the Air Force and Air Combat Command specifically, is close to issuing a proposal to buy a propeller driven aircraft for irregular warfare (IW) as well as a fleet of prop... Posted Dec 08 2008, 09:36 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: AT-6, COIN aircraft 2

• 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

• Planning for the future and UAV's: be wary of 40 year projections

  (I've had this post done for over a week but Mr. Gates and his minions kept blocking me, I showed them!) Top Gun Commander “Viper” to “Maverick” on the fight the day his Dad (his pet aircraft program) was killed: What I'm about to tell you is... Posted Nov 03 2008, 10:38 AM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: USAF, UAV, COIN aircraft 2, DoD, B-52

• Around the web: piracy prevention, light attack airplanes, and amhib vehicles

  I’m going to try and do some quick, little updates on stuff around the web. Noah Shachtman, who I had a beer with during MilBlogs two years ago, has a great operation for defense technology and even policy and operations stuff at Wired Magazines blog... Posted Oct 18 2008, 11:02 AM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: USAF, amphibious vehicle, COIN aircraft 2, danger room, Blackwater, LTTE

• Is the United States Air Force seriously considering adopting an armed light propellor driven aircraft for Strike/ISR??

  Inadvertent H/t to Danger Room, I went to the link looking for information on arming Shadow UAV's and instead, got this story excerpt instead from Inside the Air Force, a subscription news service that often breaks news stories and is generally well... Posted Oct 11 2008, 10:29 AM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: USAF, COIN aircraft 2, DoD, SECDEF Gates, General Schwartz, ISR

• Do you have what it takes to improve an Air Force? to help defend the nation?

  Preceding the firings/resignations of the two senior officials in the US Air Force, the Chief of Staff Buzz Mosely and the Secretary Michael Wynne, Secretary Gates gave a series of speeches giving serious hints at what was on his mind and what direction... Posted Jul 29 2008, 10:06 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: Excalibur, USAF, COIN aircraft 2, F-22

• SECDEF wants unconventional thinkers, Air Force general "offers" to rebuild the P-51, how about instead some light airplanes like the AT-6 for my friends in the Phillipines?

  There has been quite a lot of discussion about ISR these days, thats Intelligence, surveillence,,and reconnassiance. During two speeches, one at Air War College and another at West Point , SECDEF Gates said to West Point Cadets in part: But in order to... Posted Apr 26 2008, 07:43 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: Iraq, COIN aircraft 2, Special Forces, Phillippines, soft power

• 380 F-22's for the Air Force? How about a little Irregular Warfare action instead?

  It’s been an interesting couple of days for Air Force news. In recent developments for the US Air Force, General Bruce Carlson of the Air Force Material Command has said the Air Force is “committed to funding 380” F-22 stealthy fighter planes, which is... Posted Feb 15 2008, 12:17 AM by Otto with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Iraq, Afghanistan, USAF, COIN aircraft 2, F-22

• 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

• The time is now: Excalibur presents the counterinsurgency airship, a current day Battlestar Galactica!

  h/t to Noah Shactman and Danger Room here . There appears to be a resurgence in interest, or at least proposals for, airships . I cannot for the life of me figure out why someone can’t get the idea of a military airship to work. Over the years, as I’ve... Posted Jan 07 2008, 04:32 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: Afghanistan, UAV, COIN aircraft 2, airship

• Pacific Command uses light aircraft for COIN support, a trend or a blip? Time to resource "The Long War"

  Official Air Force photo of Holloman AFB C-12J support aircraft Press release here: First deployment of C-12J returns by Airman 1st Class Eric Summers 374th Airlift Wing Public Affairs 11/26/2007 - YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Three Airmen assigned to the... Posted Jan 04 2008, 10:32 AM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: COIN aircraft 2, Phillippines, OEF

• USAF: COIN aircraft no....Cyberwarfare yes.... what should really happen?

  There appears to be a surge in interest in a counterinsurgency (COIN) aircraft as evidenced by these posts by Stephen Trimble at both Defensetech.org here and at his blog here . The site flyingsquadron.com’s has some commentary here and they have been... Posted Dec 07 2007, 02:08 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: USAF, COIN aircraft 2, cyberspace

• 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

• Tamil Tigers conduct combined air and ground assault

  Photo released by Tamil Tigers (LTTE) showing their aircraft The Tamil Tigers , listed as a terrorist group, have been fighting for their independence for decades from Sri Lanka. A few months ago, they attacked using a previously unknown air capacity... Posted Oct 22 2007, 01:15 AM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: COIN aircraft 2, LTTE