Externals do impact detection ranges but not like what folks think. F-35 with externals will still be still stealthier than a clean F-16\Super Hornet.

Airforace tried to grab the Tucana vut Cogress shut it down. Big draw on the Tucano is that it is REALLY cheap to operate.

1) it’s really lazy to copy and paste the same response 3 times to 3 different people.

This ***hole needs to go to allah, but he can be sent there with a 7.62.

True, but that loiter time once on station...? Different story.

At $20m ea, the Textron Scorpion might do until we design a proper A-10 replacement.

I like the A-10 more than any other fixed wing craft in our military inventory (my absolute fav is the Super Cobra), but this Tucano looks like a capable bird. I can’t be bothered to search out and read all the (probably) bazillions of pages of tech specs and engineering jargon, but I wonder how it compares to the…

Then why not a modern STOL version of the OV-10 with better engines? Can you dump paratroops out of a Super-Tucana? Nope, but the OV-10 can. Can you fly home with one engine out in a Tucana, nope, but an OV-10 (Unladen) can. See what I did there? :-)

It is a great airplane, but, it’s 40 years old.

I’d be all about the Super Tucano too.

Be prepared for the onslaught. It’s “Warthog”.

Ahh, thank you for clarifying!

Not better at freedom!

I hate to be ‘that guy’ but the aircraft in the photo is a C-17. If you thought this was gigantic, a C-5 would have freaked your brother out... Cool little tidbit, a C-5 horizontal stabilizer is almost 70ft, a C-17's wingspan 170ft. :) STILL a very impressive aircraft that can do things other AF heavy lifters cannot.…

quick, cut this 4 meter board into 3 equal lengths.

quick, cut this 4 foot board into 3 equal lengths.

Just your average game of ArmA III.

Superior is subjective. Everyone posting on this site is doing so from a computer that can convert from any system to another at a whim, and most of us carry similarly effective devices with us everywhere we go. From the perspective of pure efficiency in the computer derived modern world, both are inferior to a base-2…

That would explain all the guys on the internet bragging about their 22.86 centimeter dicks.

All this commie metric bullshit ruined it.