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Recently I've gone down the rabbit hole of the few Scottish built Military aircraft, and recently the Scottish Aviation Pioneer has caught my eye, despite initially being designed as a STOL transport aircraft they appear to have seen a fair amount of Field modifications in Malaya and Aden that...

I was recently going through some scans I had taken a while back from World Air Power Journal and I found a reference to a Libyan-made COIN aircraft which I had never heard of. Is there any information about it? Source: World Air Power Journal, Volume 1, Spring 1990

Not sure where to post this one, but it was prompted by the heated discussion on whether to keep/ditch or replace the A10 in the USAF. Apart from the A10 the other main CAS purpose built aircraft in service is the Su25 Frogfoot. The UK and France use fighter/bombers in this role. The RAF set up...

https://airtractor.com/news/2022/08/l3harris-and-air-tractor-sky-warden-team-selected-for-ussocom-armed-overwatch-contract/

Here's a sketch of an unknown aircraft recently found on eBay. Any ideas on what I bought? My guess is that it's a proposed VTOL or extreme STOL aircraft intended for COIN applications. The signature is dated 1974 (I think) which would be right for the SEA-type camouflage. If the A3... number...

Hello guys, i dont mean to bother you, but i found the mentioning of the Short Skyvan being modified for COIN operations and also receiving a modification/variant of the Sea Cat missile called "hellcat" (that i couldn't even find a single picture), do any of you have info of this "Counter...

Russians Scramble To Edit Wikipedia So The Kremlin's Claims Make Sense I note that on the English-language Wikipedia page for the Su-25, there's this bit of wisdom: Does the exchange rate between feet and meters change at lower altitude?

Does this mean that the A-10 Thunderbolt II has been saved from the budget cutting block? "Northrop Grumman Awarded U.S. Air Force A-10 TLPS Task Orders" Published November 19, 2013 | By Marcel van Leeuwen Source...

Hi, here is from the airvectors site,an unknown projects to the Grumman OV-1; Does any one know them ?. http://www.airvectors.net/avmohawk.html

I found a very interesting white paper prepared for the United States Army at the RAND Corporation web site discussing a United States Stability Police Force (SPF): A Stability Police Force for the United States: Justification and Options for Creating U.S. Capabilities by Terrence K. Kelly...

While browsing through magazines, I came across this most unusual aircraft, presented at MAKS '99 and described as the Avialine. Does anyone know anything about it? Who manufactured it? Did it actually fly? What became of it? Title edited thanks to boxkite's information.

North American YAT-28E model manufactured by Topping found on eBay. URL: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Topping-North-American-YAT-28E-Desk-Model-/200623021654?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb6105e56

Introducing the ATK/Mohawk Technologies/Broadbay OV-1D ASP (Aerial Surveillance Platform). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l40HvQ13aA4 Source: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/

Any gun buff or fan of WWII espionage fact or fiction knows about the Liberator pistol, an ugly little single-shot, smoothbore .45 caliber pocket pistol intended to arm resistance fighters (insurgents on our side) so that they can kill an enemy soldier and take his gun. In the 1960s, following...

OK, lets go back to the AX competition and the original bids submitted. Cessna's submission Source: A-37 in Action, Squadron-Signal