Air Force tests two turboprops as potential A-10 “replacements”

Re:Air Force tests two turboprops as potential A-10 “replace... by toomanybeersies on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:41AM (#17347680)

Incidentally, Burt Rutan (the founder of Scaled Composites, who are making Virgin Galactic's space ships) almost made a prototype of exactly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_ARES

> The original layout was of a low wing canard configuration, aircraft powered by a pusher turboprop, and built around a 30 mm Gatling gun capable of destroying light armored vehicles

The actual prototype ended up with a turbofan. Still had a canard wing though. It also had a GAU-12 as the canon, just like GP wants.

It's also made out of fancy composites. It sounds like the perfect plane for the Hacker News Air Force.

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Re:Air Force tests two turboprops as potential A-10 “replace... by rbanffy on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @07:52PM (#17351252)

For the record, I was being sarcastic.

And fancy shapes and materials resulted in the F-35 clusterfuck.

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