FMA I.A.58 "Pucara" :attacker 1969 Argentina

How to controll


H:heading C:reset
P:pitching 1:stereo on
R:rolling 2:stereo off

SPECIFICATIONS:
Wingspan: 14.50m
length: 14.25m
height: 5.36m
empty mass: 4,030kg
start mass: 6,800kg
engine: turbo-prop Turb. "Astazou XVIG" (988shp)X2
max speed: 467km/h
initial climb: 103m/s
ceiling: 7,400m
range w/max.fuel: 1,448km
armament: 2× 20 mm Hispano-Suiza HS.804 autocannons 4× 7.62 mm FM M2-20 machine guns Bombs: 3× hardpoints for up to 1,500 kg of gun pods, bombs, rockets, mines, or torpedoes.
Crew: 2
実際この飛行機は、フォークランド紛争(フォークランド島をアルゼンチンが占拠したことからイギリスとの戦争になった)の時に実戦に参加したが活躍はできませんでした。作戦機としては、近接航空支援機といい、戦場で空から陸軍を支援する作戦に使われる機体です。他にミラージュIIIシュペルスーパーエタンダールなどが作戦に参加しました。
 
 
The FMA IA 58 Pucara (Fortress) is a twin-engined counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft made in Argentina, flown for the first time on August 20, 1969. It is designed to be able to operate from small front-line airfields. This aircraft is unusual because of the tandem cockpit arrangement in a twin-prop-driven military aircraft. While the Pucara is a robust and versatile aircraft in its primary role of defeating insurgents, it was not suited for defending the Falkland Islands against the British counter-attack during the Falklands War of 1982. As the only FAA aircraft available in substantial numbers for deployment on the islands (no runways long enough existed for FAA Skyhawks and Mirages to be deployed), many Pucaras were destroyed on the ground by British forces before taking part in actual combat, with one taken back to the United Kingdom, currently in Duxford. A second example (serial number A-515) was taken to Boscombe Down, returned to flying condition and assessed by the RAF. It is now on display at the RAF Museum Cosford. Apart from Argentina, Pucaras have also been exported to the air forces of Uruguay, Colombia, and Sri Lanka.
 
 

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