I'm no aeronautical engineer, but...

[SoupOrMan]

I'd say it looks like a job for the B-25G, but everyone would be all "we've done that before!" Nothing says "I don't much like your sassmouth" like a 75mm cannon, though with modern capabilities, why not two 90mm (or 106mm for real fun) recoilless guns plus a whole lot of internal ordnance?

I had an idea for an automatic recoilless gun, but I don't know how well it'd work.

[HTRN]

Lest we forget the recent dust up over USAF light CAS purchase.

Say it with me now.. "FIGHTER MAFIA".

[SoupOrMan]

Lest we forget the recent dust up over USAF light CAS purchase.

Say it with me now.. "FIGHTER MAFIA".

You got that wrong. The correct term is "Fucking ring-knockers and their fucking fighter mafia."

[Rich]

Lest we forget the recent dust up over USAF light CAS purchase.

Say it with me now.. "FIGHTER MAFIA".

Just a slight overreaction from the many, many years we tactical types were Sacumsized.

[Termite]

Hog drivers are loved by Army grunts for providing them with CAS.......unless the Hog drivers shoot one of our own tanks/trucks/APV/IFVs by mistake.

[HTRN]

Hog drivers are loved by Army grunts

And hated by the AF as an institution.

[Jericho941]

At this point, if you're not part of the -22 or -35 community, you get no love.

Something about being at war for 20 years, "austerity," et al...

[Jericho941]

Well, the rationale behind "20" that I've been told is that the Air Force has never not been at war since 1990. Rounded down, heh.

[Yogimus]

I always wanted to see modern high altitude blimps loaded with 200lb "smart" Micromunitions. Unmanned, and solar powered.

[Jericho941]

But if somebody builds that, nobody will want my rigid airship UAV-carrier!