Picture from yesterday’s Independence Day parade in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Are those helos AW139s?

Yes, all 4 of them. Since when are they flying in the Turmenistan Air Force/Army?

What do you think of the Air Tractor AT-802U Coin?

http://www.802u.com/

Main disadvantage is the lack of sensors I guess. Although a small sensor turret is under the nose of course.

Isnt the prodn of C-160 done decades ago?

Any opnions on the An-140? Nice looking aircraft but lacks a ramp; a strict no-no for mil use. A rival for the ATR series.

The CASA CN-235 and CN-295 are also pretty nice…is it better than the G-222?

You mean the C-27J as the original G.222/C-27A is almost a historical aircraft. 😉

The key consideration in rejecting the C-130 as a COD (and I’d imagine the later F-28 studies) is that once down they would effectively monopolise the flight deck until they could take off again.

Fokker seems to solved that problem:

The landing gear would be completely new, and the twoposition noseleg needed for catapult launches would also be used to tilt the aircraft tail-down for carrier storage.

Kenneth Wooster’s pages on the Hatwing project (P2Vs and AJs off carriers) are excellent
http://web.cortland.edu/woosterk/hatwing1.html

http://web.cortland.edu/woosterk/navy01.html

As well as RATO assisted takeoffs, touch and go practice landings on the Roosevelt were made by a P2V though never a full landing

Didn’t some airliners with better than average field capabilities get studied for the COD role (Boeing 727, Fairchild/Fokker F-28)?

Must be true. I remember a Fokker drawing of a F-28 in USN colours onboard a carrier. And found it
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?54692-Not-a-big-tube-fan-unless…

another Anakonda. This one a Lavochkin La-250

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I prefer them flying