ISIS wars in Iraq and Syria like being a test event in the world's greatest military power, the United States and Russia. The difference, if the Russians send their latest combat aircraft Su-35S and the Su-34 to try their hand on the battlefield, American air instead issued a Vietnam-era OV-10 Bronco of warehouse storage and return to the battlefield.
This is not utopian, America has sent a pair of attack aircraft propellers for three months to the Middle East. OV-10 Bronco work to protect ground troops who fought against ISIS.
American air bombing campaign has become a laboratory for military and arms industry. From this deadly terrain they will find a variety of strategies and technologies are most appropriate for use in current or future if it found the same case.
US Central Command declared the twin-engine plane flown by Bronco each pair of Navy pilots. They have done 134 sorties, including 120 combat missions, over a span of 82 days starting in May 2015.
Central Command will not say exactly where the OV-10 is placed and which areas were attacked, but make the best of small attacks with twin tail that became his trademark flew in support of Operation Resolve Inherent, an international campaign led by the US to demolish ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The Pentagon has deployed fighter planes to Turkey, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates and other countries.
The Pentagon's reluctance to provide many details about the foreign missions OV-10 aircraft to imply that it is working closely with the Special Operations Forces. In all likelihood, the tiny attacker acting as a sort of quick reaction 9-1-1 because it can take off quickly at the request of the special forces and flying low to hit the militants with guns and rockets before then slipped away.
"The purpose of the military is to determine whether working with turbo-prop aircraft will increase synergies and improve coordination between the aircrew and ground commander," said the captain. Bryant P. Davis, a spokesman for Central Command, told The Daily Beast Thursday, March 10, 2016.
Davis said the military also want to know whether Bronco or similar aircraft could take over the role of fighter jets like the F-15 and F / A-18, which does most of the US air strikes in the Middle East, but at a cost that is much more expensive both in aircraft prices or the cost of operations. For comparison F-15 requires at least US $ 40,000 or about Rp540 million per flight hour for fuel and maintenance. While Bronco reasonably require US $ 1000, or about 13.5 million for the one hour flight. Obviously the numbers are much different.
OV-10 was built North American Aviation is now part of Boeing, developed a Bronco in the 1960s. Pentagon wants, inexpensive small attack aircraft that can take off from rough airstrips close to the fighting. By being close to the front lines, small aircraft will always be available to support ground troops briefly.
Bronco finally proved himself indeed indispensable. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps deployed hundreds of OV-10 in Vietnam, where small aircraft proved to be rugged, reliable, and deadly to the enemy. After Vietnam, Navy and Air Force Bronco mempensiun develop the A-10 with a power jet. While the Marines continue to rely on this small bomber and even fly them from Navy aircraft carrier before mempensiun them in the mid-1990s.
Foreign air forces as well as civilian and paramilitary operators quickly grabbed Bronco's disabled. They proved popular with the fire department. Philippines exert OV-10 in the counter-insurgency campaign against the militants. The US State Department sent Bronco to Colombia to support the War on Drugs. NASA uses them to test the air.
Thirty years after Vietnam, the Pentagon finds himself having to fight the guerrillas who are difficult to track in Afghanistan, Iraq and other war zones. And they again asked to help OV-10. In 2011, the Central Command and Special Operations Command borrow two Bronco, the possibility of NASA or the Department of Foreign Affairs, and fitted them with radio and new weapons.
Department of Defense issued a budget of US $ 20 million in the 2012 budget to pay for two OV-10 to be sent abroad as part of a broader military experiments with smaller, less expensive combat aircraft
Flight test in the battlefield is not new. During the 1991 Gulf War, the Air Force deployed a prototype aircraft E-8 radar to track Iraqi tanks across the desert. Air Force spy plane flew unmanned Global Hawk is also still a prototype for spying on Taliban and Al Qaeda in late 2001. Satisfied with the test flight of the second war, the military ended up spending billions of dollars to buy more of them.
Not to be outdone, in November 2015 Russia sent Tu-160 heavy bombers to attack targets in Syria. This giant bomber first combat mission, and one that many observers assume is meant to test the capabilities of the aircraft before they will go to the upgrade program.
But the trial of combat is not always please everyone. When the Pentagon is proposing to spend $ 20 million on OV-10, Senator John McCain, who now chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, objected. "There is no urgent operational requirements for this type of aircraft," McCain said in a statement. MPs then cancel some of the funds for the Bronco, but the military finally managed to pay the trial by diverting money from other programs.
Menrurut Davis OV-10 proved to be very reliable in 82 days of fighting them by completing 99 percent of their mission. Today the two OV-10 has been sitting idle at a military airfield in North Carolina. "The assessment will determine whether this is a concept that will be effective in the current battlespace," said Davis.
Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, head of the Air Force Special Operations Command, has hinted that the military would continue to use the current fighter jets to attack missions. In the defense industry conference in February in Orlando, Heithold said the OV-10 have a few "utility," but he added that it is too expensive to pay for training and equipment to the fleet if there are only two aircraft. Typically, the Pentagon bought hundreds of aircraft at one time, partly in order to achieve economies of scale.
Yes, OV-10 is cheaper in terms of price and compared sebuauh operational F-15. But the military will need to get hundreds Bronco instead of two to actually reach the word cheap.
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