Sorry for this @ Mahegoat, here we go:
CAS - Close Air Support
Helping ground troops with planes during operations
COIN Ops- Counter-Insurgency Operations
Read anti-guerilla/rebel warfare.
Most Kenyans are fixated at the fact that it was originally an agricultural plane, but forget or ignore to read further that because of its versatility and suitability in all its theaters of operations (S.America esp) the manufacturers then modified it to get a military version.
When you consider the sophisticated electronic warfare avionics suite and PRECISION guided weaponry such as Hellfire missiles it has then you begin to understand that the little mother*ucker packs quite a punch.
Meaning if this plane was hovering at GPO nBI it can launch a precision-guided Hellfire missile at @Impunity's jalopy basking in the sunshine at Belle Vue hapo South C and destroy it.
Alternatively, if it doesn't have missiles then it can 'paint' or illuminate @Impunity's jalopy with an invisible laser beam that another air tractor, jet,chopper, armed drone or such platform hovering at Kenyatta market can 'see' and launch a guided missile at the same jalopy and destroy it in seconds. And they all get to see it on live video feeds. You shoot missiles at the little thing but it has countermeasures such as chaffs to confuse enemy missile. And it can fly usiku na mchana, kwa mvua na kwa jua
If our KDF had this then they the tide of battle would have been much different at El Adde last Jan. It can withstand small arms fire and old soviet guns such as the Zpu-4 Anti-aircraft guns that Al Kefafu has.
Weapon costing includes the supporting infrastructure - personnel, tarining, weapons,etc
See it here with UAE:
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Looks can be deceiving. I would swear that the tiny aircraft can be brought down by hand to air projectiles from angry AFC and Gor Mahia fans
