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Missed this earlier (see post 30 as well).Canberras* could be based in country. You wouldn't have long deployment flights and multiple refuellings, which would save a lot of fuel and cost. Since they are based right there, you could have anywhere from a couple to a couple squadrons constantly sailing around at high altitude, depending on what is happening on the ground. If one happens to use up it's entire bomb load, shuttle another of the on station aircraft over and send up another one (or more if necessary) as needed. They could be on station in minutes to up to an hour, though I'd anticipate more like half an hour depending on what alert condition they are in.*The only modern aircraft I suspect could do this kind of based locally high altitude persistent/loitering CAS is the Textron-AirLand Scorpion. It doesn't have the range or bomb-load of a Canberra, but SDBs would allow it to attack multiple targets on one sortie and it's a lot closer to being in production that new Canberras are. *They could do SOCOMs persistent overwatch mission as well, at least in those circumstances where something on the close-by on a rough field wouldn't make more sense.
Missed this earlier (see post 30 as well).
Canberras* could be based in country. You wouldn't have long deployment flights and multiple refuellings, which would save a lot of fuel and cost. Since they are based right there, you could have anywhere from a couple to a couple squadrons constantly sailing around at high altitude, depending on what is happening on the ground. If one happens to use up it's entire bomb load, shuttle another of the on station aircraft over and send up another one (or more if necessary) as needed. They could be on station in minutes to up to an hour, though I'd anticipate more like half an hour depending on what alert condition they are in.
*The only modern aircraft I suspect could do this kind of based locally high altitude persistent/loitering CAS is the Textron-AirLand Scorpion. It doesn't have the range or bomb-load of a Canberra, but SDBs would allow it to attack multiple targets on one sortie and it's a lot closer to being in production that new Canberras are.
*They could do SOCOMs persistent overwatch mission as well, at least in those circumstances where something on the close-by on a rough field wouldn't make more sense.
