OV-10 Bronco (Wallpaper 1)
Friday, June 3, 2011
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OV-10 Bronco (Wallpaper 1)
OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft photo wallpaper gallery 1. OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft pictures and images collection 1.
The North American Aviation Rockwell OV-10 Bronco is a turboprop light attack and observation aircraft. It was developed in the 1960s as a special aircraft for counter insurgency (COIN) combat, and one of its primary missions was as a forward air control (FAC) aircraft. It can carry up to three tons of external munitions, and loiter for three or more hours. The original vision was developed in the early 1960s by an informal collaboration of W.H. Beckett and Colonel K.P. Rice, USMC, who met at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, and who also lived near each other. The concept was one of a rugged, simple, close air support aircraft integrated with forward ground operations. At the time, the U.S. Army was still experimenting with armed helicopters, and the U.S. Air Force was uninterested in close air support. The concept aircraft was to operate from expedient forward air bases using roads as runways. Speed was to be from very slow, to medium subsonic, with much longer loiter times than a pure jet. OV-10 Bronco (Wallpaper 1). OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft photo wallpaper gallery 1. OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft pictures and images collection 1. Efficient turboprop engines would give better performance than piston aircraft. Weapons were to be mounted on the centerline to get efficient unranged aiming like the P-38 Lightning and F-86 Sabre aircraft. The inventors' favored strafing weapons were self-loading recoilless rifles, which could deliver aimed explosive shells with less recoil than cannons, and a lower per-round weight than rockets. The airframe was to be designed to avoid the back blast. Beckett and Rice developed a basic platform meeting the requirements, then attempted to build a fiberglass prototype in a garage. The effort produced enthusiastic supporters and an informal pamphlet describing the concept. W.H. Beckett, who had retired from the Marine Corps, went to work at North American Aviation to sell the aircraft. A "tri-service" specification for the Light Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft (LARA) was approved by the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Army and was issued in late 1963. The LARA requirement was based on a perceived need for a new type of "jungle fighting" versatile light attack and observation aircraft. Existing military aircraft in the observation role, such as the O-1 Bird Dog and O-2 Skymaster, were perceived as obsolescent, with too slow a speed and too small a load capacity for this flexible role. OV-10 Bronco (Wallpaper 1). OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft photo wallpaper gallery 1. OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft pictures and images collection 1.
OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft photo wallpaper gallery 1. OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft pictures and images collection 1.
The North American Aviation Rockwell OV-10 Bronco is a turboprop light attack and observation aircraft. It was developed in the 1960s as a special aircraft for counter insurgency (COIN) combat, and one of its primary missions was as a forward air control (FAC) aircraft. It can carry up to three tons of external munitions, and loiter for three or more hours. The original vision was developed in the early 1960s by an informal collaboration of W.H. Beckett and Colonel K.P. Rice, USMC, who met at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, and who also lived near each other. The concept was one of a rugged, simple, close air support aircraft integrated with forward ground operations. At the time, the U.S. Army was still experimenting with armed helicopters, and the U.S. Air Force was uninterested in close air support. The concept aircraft was to operate from expedient forward air bases using roads as runways. Speed was to be from very slow, to medium subsonic, with much longer loiter times than a pure jet. OV-10 Bronco (Wallpaper 1). OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft photo wallpaper gallery 1. OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft pictures and images collection 1. Efficient turboprop engines would give better performance than piston aircraft. Weapons were to be mounted on the centerline to get efficient unranged aiming like the P-38 Lightning and F-86 Sabre aircraft. The inventors' favored strafing weapons were self-loading recoilless rifles, which could deliver aimed explosive shells with less recoil than cannons, and a lower per-round weight than rockets. The airframe was to be designed to avoid the back blast. Beckett and Rice developed a basic platform meeting the requirements, then attempted to build a fiberglass prototype in a garage. The effort produced enthusiastic supporters and an informal pamphlet describing the concept. W.H. Beckett, who had retired from the Marine Corps, went to work at North American Aviation to sell the aircraft. A "tri-service" specification for the Light Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft (LARA) was approved by the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Army and was issued in late 1963. The LARA requirement was based on a perceived need for a new type of "jungle fighting" versatile light attack and observation aircraft. Existing military aircraft in the observation role, such as the O-1 Bird Dog and O-2 Skymaster, were perceived as obsolescent, with too slow a speed and too small a load capacity for this flexible role. OV-10 Bronco (Wallpaper 1). OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft photo wallpaper gallery 1. OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft pictures and images collection 1.
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