Four cool guy CAS AT-6C Wolverine with Flying Tiger teeth and a bunch of bombs were just sold to Tunisia. Flying Tiger fanboy, Erik Prince the guy who bought a Tucano from Brazil to lease to the Navy and created his own killer spray plane must be pissed. federalregister.gov/documents/2020… 
The $328M deal for the AT-6Cs is the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla buys cool planes and sells them to allies to kill terrorists. The move to fast planes seems to end the Thrush/LASA platform that Prince is promoting. defense.txtav.com/en/at-6
The IOMAX and U.S. knockoffs were considered for really funky air forces and were sold to the UAE who immediately handed them out to local friends to violate arms embargo in Libya. I have not seem much sales movement on the IOMAX Archangel since then
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The UAE has bankrolled ITAR and ITAR related lethal platforms that combine ISR, smart weapons, smart controls and ideally even drone operated killing machines to support troops in close contact. But they end up in Yemen, Eritrea, Jordan, Egypt and Libya. nstarusa.com/407-mrh-lightn…
Finding cheaper ways to kill rebels in flip-flops or members of legitimate governments seems to be the obsessive goal of the UAE and KSA. The UAE licenses and develops their own versions of platforms which they have to buy back to keep the dream alive. defensenews.com/digital-show-d…
This comparison will show you why the gunned up Air Tractor is a dud for CAS. Pilots don't like flying low, slow and "uh oh" with no ejector seat over Manpadland …111smilitaryandarmspage.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/the…
The other trick to close air support...other than not killing the pilots...is to not kill the troops you are supporting. Having done a few missions at night with gunships, drones, fast movers, even helos acting as eyes in the sky. Its a comforting feeling. airforcemag.com/article/the-up…
