Chad & Iraq were potential Grumman OV-1 customers (US State Cables)

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Apparently Chad were interested in purchasing OV-1 Mohawks but fell foul of the FMSA.

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Also 4 were apparently authorized for Pakistan:

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IDSA Journal January-March 1984: Volume 16, Issue 3.Digitized from IA1641723-01.Previous issue: sim_idsa-journal_october-december-1983_16_2.Next issue:...

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Also mods, perhaps merge this thread with:

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/grumman-ov-1-mohawk.22250/ ?

done, thanks for the clue !

 

[Archibald]

Wow. Chad ? We send Jaguars and Mirage F1s and (before that) Skyraiders to their help, over twenty years (1968-1988).

Mohawks would have been very welcome.

 

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Iraq!

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At least it wasn't the EA-6B!