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An "unlikely" warbird

JensOle

JensOle

SOH-CM-2023
The Cessna 208B Grand Caravan has entered the military aviation community in the last decade with many sold in the middle east for military use. The type has even been made into a gunship as the AC-208 Combat Caravan (in use in Iraq and Lebanon).

I have settled with the transport model as the AC208 do not exist in FS, painting the Carenado model up to look like 208B "YA12287" of the Afghan Air Force.

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On final into KAF

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Looks great Jens. I'd love to see a remake with the full AC208 treatment. Hellfires and FLIR/Laser turret.

Jeff
 
Thanks! I have always been fascinated by the more special military aircraft types and the AC-208 certainly fits in that category. A shame the light attack/COIN capability never have been supported by the top AF commanders, they always seems to prefer fast jets burning up astronomical sums of money doing road recce.... Just see how long the USAF Light attack aircraft program has taken... On a positive note, it was interesting to see that the US navy is "re" testing the OV-10 Bronco for special mission support.
 
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