New use found for the Tucano!

[tonker]

Attached video of the Tucano in use against drug runners near the Bolivian border. Beats clipping them round the ear with a Guardian.:D


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=063_1182300981

[Dan Winterland]

They're Super Tucanos fitted with gunpods and AIM9s. The Brazillians started to use them when they found it was very hard to shoot down Cessenas with F5s.

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb73/dbchippy/1140477.jpg

[Fox3snapshot]

High Corumba!!!!!

The boys really get amongst it! :D

The lighty pilot though was certainly no slouch, some serious ducking and weaving going on there!!!! :eek:

Good to see justice being done....assuming it wasn't the local aero club teaching low nav!!!! :E

[Razor61]

That is some awesome flying by both skimming the trees.
Assume the fire was put out in good time?
What aircraft was using the FLIR? Would that have been USAF/US Army or DEA/Customs?

[bad livin']

Razor, suspect putting out fire was contrary to point of exercise. US voice near the end clearly states "target executed and burning", ie "job done".

[GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU]

Off Thread; but how useful a machine would it be for COIN in hot sandy places? Would the single donk limit survivability?

[MadsDad]

In the reply above gun pods are mentioned. What I was wondering (and keep forgetting to ask him if he knows) was whether the gun pods would be centreline pods and, if they were, what sort of interruptor gear they would use (otherwise you will end up with a much smaller diameter prop than you started with).

The only interruptor gear I have heard of was mechanical (with the prop shaft connected to the firing mechanism, a la WW1/WW2 aircraft) but there would presumably be problems connecting this type of mechanism to a detachable pod so I was wondering if some other sort of interruptor had been developed (I am thinking about mounting a laser or low-power radar in the pod which could determine the blade position).

[Gainesy]

Easier to just put gun pods on the wing, (though these appear to be tanks(?). Colombian AF bought 25 of them.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/Gainesy/AIR_AT-27_Super_Tucano_lg.jpg

[airborne_artist]

This page (http://thedewline.typepad.com/stephen_trimble/2007/04/brainstorming_o.html) suggests that on the Super T the 0.50 cal guns are wing mounted:

"The Super Tucano on the other hand was designed to be a combat aircraft from Day 1 – that’s why it makes a lousy trainer because it’s so big and heavy. The Brazilians deploy it into Amazon dirt strips to fight drug smugglers, it has guns (not an “internal gun pod” but two 0.50-cals in the wing), it can carry air-to-air missiles and has a very sophisticated (datalinked) cockpit (thank you Elbit)."

Confirmation here (http://www.aviationnow.com/shownews/02fidae/topsto02.htm) (and in the pic above).

[hobie]

Live by the Sword .... Die by the Sword .... :cool:

[charliegolf]

What about the sanctity of life; the right of the individual and stuff. What if society was to blame?


Yeah........ f@@k 'em.

CG

[Razor61]

http://www.answers.com/topic/embraer-emb-314-super-tucano

The above link tells you about the exact variant in the video used by the Brazilians in the Amazon region. It flies alongside the R-99 (Was this what was providing the FLIR in the video?) and the variant in question, at the bottom of the page states it is used to intercept low performance aircraft.

20mm gun pod under the fuselage with a 12.7mm gun pod under each wing.

[Two's in]

Marginally more effective than the "Nothing to declare" lane at Gatwick...