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08-10-2007, 10:22 PM
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The "meaner" looking pucara was definately the IA-58C variant. In this film still the Charlie is taking off with a laser guided missile, no idea what was the name of that.   Close up to the nose, the protruding barrel belongs to a 30 mm DEFA 553 revolver gun, this shoot about 1800rpm. One of the starbord 7,62mm MG was deleted in order to acomodate the French weapon.  | |
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09-10-2007, 01:17 PM
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| In Regard to the IA-58 and particularly the IA-66, was there ever any consideration given to using the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68C engines? |
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09-11-2007, 12:18 AM
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| You mean that model in particular ? No really, at list there is no official account of that. I agree that the astazous are the main drawback of this aircraft.   Last edited by CharlesBronson; 09-11-2007 at 12:21 AM. |
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09-11-2007, 11:32 PM
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| Love the cockpit of that bird, CB. The canopy looks familiar. Looks very... WWII. Anyone?
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09-12-2007, 09:12 PM
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| It looks like second War warbird because it have a flat, armored glass windshield like the fighters in the good old days of the ww2.   |
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09-13-2007, 02:29 PM
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| Yeah, but so did the A-4. No, I think it looks familiar for other reasons. Perhaps it is the straight stiles of the armoured wind screen. Oh. And 1800rds/min? For a 30mm?? Is it a chain gun? I can't fathom a firing rate that high for a single barrel cannon.
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09-13-2007, 04:44 PM
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 I was checking other sources and they said 1100-1300 rpm for the Defa 552, 1300-1500 for the Defa 553 and 1800 for the Defa 554. I dont remember if the IA-58C used a 553 or a 554 model. Actually GIAT manufactured today canon named M7981 and it is also single barrel, 7 chamber revolver gun and it fires at...2500 rpm.  It is used in the Dassault Rafale.  | |
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09-13-2007, 06:00 PM
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| That makes for a hot barrel. I guess the tradeoff is lighter weight.
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09-13-2007, 11:23 PM
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| If you mean lighter than a Gatling gun...well must be about 20% of the weight of a GAU-8.  IA-58 flying over the Beagle Channel, a hot zone of the 1970s-80s. This A model carry a 1300 lts fuel tank.     |
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09-14-2007, 10:34 AM
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| Super Pucara? Hypothetical Canadianized Super Pucara, dubbed 'CA-58' with the PT6A-68C engines and a air-to-air refueling node (to make the aircraft somewhat self-deployable over long distances).  |
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09-14-2007, 12:25 PM
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09-14-2007, 01:26 PM
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| How about the Huey Cobra |
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09-14-2007, 02:16 PM
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| No. Can't place it.
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09-14-2007, 02:40 PM
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09-14-2007, 09:02 PM
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 And what is the armament ??  Actually the maximum range of the IA-58 is not bad, about 3000 km, but of course just with maximum fuel and not external bombs/rocket/missiles. | |
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