yes, as back then they had no PT 6's and if you lost an engine on take off fully loaded, even if you were 30 knots above minimum single eng. out speed your still in a world of shit. Yet they are a fantastic aircraft begging for all the wonderful upgrades available to bring them back as dirt cheap, deadly CAS and can…

The Sandies kicked ass in Nam and the ONLY plane that could take off carrying twice its weight. It was a real deal killing machine and yes, it could still be used against those savages for CAS its main mission as it kicked gook ass royally in Nam and launched from carriers. The Flight of The Intruder movie showed some…

You ever heard of the A 10 Wart hog that has killed, destroyed 10,000 times more enemy in CAS that ANY AIR CRAFT in our arsenal or history and for 1/20 the operational price and 500% more accuracy as in laying ground fire with it’s 30 mm special built 3000 round per min. giving the pilot over 16 trigger pulls plus…

Giving up graded dildoes to those idiots might help them, but the OV-10's are ONLY for our Special Forces uses, not those monkeys. Read the mar 11 12th or 13th about 2 up graded OV-10's sent to support our Special Forces in Syria or Iraq who raved about them, as did out boys in Vietnam. It can carry 4-6 paratroopers,…

Tell that bull shit to our Special Forces in the Syria/ Iraq area that just used 2 up graded OV-10's that were just sent there to support those guys who raved about their unreal performance in mission specific operations that ONLY the OV-10 could do. Can your drones carry 4-6 paratroopers, NO, nor can they THINK. Read…

It was only the marines who wanted VTOL for a all in one fighter and they have been trying since WW 11 to get one. They got the British Harrier, we modified it and it was hardly ever used for many reasons, like non supersonic, not good in a dog fight and limited range due tiny wings needed for VTOL. The air force…

Your talking about a simple chopper, and the osprey is anything but simple to modify as it’s one of the most complex of aircraft ever built. Therefore it would be cost prohibitive. Besides, a VTOL all in one so called stealthy fighter like the most expensive aircraft ever made $400 billion piece of shit the F-35…

First of all, your not to off load in a hot LZ like was done in Nam, and 2nd, no Apache etc. can keep up with the 300 mph craft and if a chopper could, they cannot fly 1/3 as far. 3#rd to add 2 side doors for two, 7.62 mm x .51 mm mini guns which are the best MOST light caliber guns ever to clear out some hostiles,…

The marine corps is and was created for amphibious assaults and later special insertion ops like the army’s special forces and Delta teams. So it needs no more than the army in the way of support aircraft. It’s all political bull shit for one, as in fighting as both insert special ops into hot areas. All the Osprey…

You are wrong in about 80% of your WW11 history as you will know from the below facts. The navy did reteate from Gudacalnal, leaving the marines in a bad position. Only those marine aircraft ,F4F -F6F and Cousairs carried 500 lb bombs and had a range of over 750 miles. So they could and did reach the Japs ships and…

Any time you insert troops into combat, via Huey’s(Vietnam) or the mess going on now, the transport always needs protection, as your going into harms way. Using 1 F-16 that cost 10 $K a hour just to fly or any other type of ultra high cost fighter aircraft to provide this protection is another example of pentagon Gods…