Fairchild AU-23 Peacemaker

This would be a fine fit with what we currently have, in my opinion. Served different roles, armed/unarmed, could also appeal to casual fliers in/out of DCS' hardcore base, and those looking for something of the fixed-wing variety for cargo runs in Blue Flag. It did have its issues though and only saw service with the US and Thailand, plus it was apparently rather fragile.

Seems like a fine plane to have if we are going to transport cocaine somewhere in South America

Indeed, I agree :-)

Seems like a fine plane to have if we are going to transport cocaine somewhere in South America

And not necessarily with our knowledge, do you perchance have some grenades procured from the black-market, sir? Check the bags, check all of them!

Just to make it clear... My post was ironic, not jokingly supportive :)

Perhaps allowing a flyable C-5, C-17 for those who want to be a part of the dcs world in a more casual manner. Wouldn’t be for me but I can see how it would be cool for those that like that type of flying.

Nothing like the AT 802U..:pilotfly:

Perhaps allowing a flyable C-5, C-17 for those who want to be a part of the dcs world in a more casual manner. Wouldn’t be for me but I can see how it would be cool for those that like that type of flying.

Well I picked this particular airframe for discussion because it was somewhat used in a light CAS role, or at least intended to be. Next to that was seeing the rather absurd inclusion of the P51 for recon and cargo runs on Blue Flag's NATO / Warsaw Pact conflict server, this to my mind is far more fitting.

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I would also like to see a C-123, but it's rather big to fill the current role people are using the P51 for on Blue Flag, and the C-123 wasn't armed, unless you count Agent Orange.

Seems like a fine plane to have if we are going to transport cocaine somewhere in South America

The drug deal went south, quick, throw the crack out the back, we need to lighten her to get off this mountainside!

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I would also like to see a C-123, but it's rather big to fill the current role people are using the P51 for on Blue Flag, and the C-123 wasn't armed, unless you count Agent Orange.

(A)C-47 anyone?

I think mite be good for low level recon mission before Jets are sent in.

Looks like Pilatus

On 9/23/2022 at 6:07 PM, DmitriKozlowsky said:

Looks like Pilatus

Yes. 

It was a Pilatus PC-6, but when they added the Vulcan 20mm, and probably US mil radios, Fairchild offered it as a COIN aircraft to the Pentagon, and they bought a few. 

AFAIK COIN starts with OV-10, picks up Pucara, and ends with A-29. Everybody else is also-ran. After two decades in Af/Pak. A-10C and AH-64 are tops for plinking terror-dogs with manned systems. Best COIN work is drone. Ukraine does that show that drones have limits in unpermissive environments.

Sure, for pure purpose-built aircraft. But before and after the OV-10 there were and are other planes adapted quite well to COIN air.  The USAF had a whole motley fleet of them in the early years of Vietnam... Boxcars, Canberas, Raiderrs and such.

And more recently one could make the case that UCAV;s are more COIN than anything else. In Afghanistan and Iraq the Cessna Caravan got FLIR pods and Hellfires. There was even a variant of the P-51, offered with a turboprop and tip tanks, for COIN.  Then there was Puff the Magic Dragon, Spooky, Specter and so on. 

The Fairchild  gunship entry was definitely for COIN.... whether it was a success or not is debatable,  and seemed to not attract much interest.