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The A-37 Dragonfly in Vietnam: When light attack was the real thing

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Via Quan Nguyen Thanh

 
 Two South Vietnamese A-37s prepare for a mission at Đà Nẵng Airbase, September 1970.

A small cadre of mid-grade Pentagon officers — the “renegades,” some call them — are arguing for a light attack capability for the U.S. Air Force.

 “We had more time on station than the big fighters and unlike them we could operate under cloud cover and in tough terrain that might have deterred a larger jet.”

Believing the United States will find itself fighting in Third World trouble spots for years to come, they want the Air Force to have its own squadrons of a warplane in the category of today’s Sierra Nevada Corp./Embraer A-29B Super Tucano or Beechcraft AT-6 Texan II.

The light attack concept has been under study since the 1950s, but in the opinion of many the Air Force only got it right once – during the Vietnam War with the Cessna A-37B Dragonfly.


Source: https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-37-dragonfly-in-vietnam-when-light.html



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