Multipurpose aircraft Ganship MC-27J

MC-27J - a gunship or a special aircraft armed for reconnaissance, observation and reconnaissance, suppression of enemy ground or low-flying targets. A distinctive feature of the gunships - the main side arms have a perpendicular orientation of the fire relative to the longitudinal axis of the machine. Now it will be a refinement (upgrade) of the X-NUMX C-21J delivered to the MC-27J level, for the United States Armed Forces. Upgrading C-27J to MC-27J takes about a year. The company will be able to deliver new aircraft two years after the conclusion of a contract with the customer. We know about the interest shown in the new multifunctional armed MC-27J by the Italian Air Force. Alenia assumes that a promising market for new aircraft will be around X-NUMX units of MC-27J.

An Italian demo of the MC-27J was shown at the Farnborough air show. It is based on the C-27J Spartan military transporter. Joint development of the Italian "Alenia Aermacchi" and the American "ATK". ATK is responsible for the design, creation and integration of an artillery unit. She already has experience in installing and integrating such weapons - the company had previously, according to the contract, upgraded two CN235 Italian aircraft for transfer to the Jordanian Air Force.

The development is carried out under the program for creating low-cost multi-purpose aircraft carrying fast-mounted weapons made in containers. The main caliber of such weapons - 30mm. The ATK GAU-23 automatic cannon, which is a variation of the ATK Mk 44 Bushmaster, was demonstrated at the air show. The armament complex is installed on the cargo pallet. This system is mounted in the cargo compartment. The fire is carried out of the cargo door on the left side. The total time of installation / withdrawal of the rapid-fire system does not exceed 4 hours. From the rest of the equipment it is known about the presence on board of a twenty-four-hour electro-optical search / sighting equipment, self-defense complex. In the short term, the installation of guided weapons on wing hangers.

Prior to MC-27J, the Italian company developed the lightweight multi-purpose aircraft AC-27J. The development was carried out according to the program "AC-XX" for the needs of the military command for the special forces of the United States. A few years ago, due to poor funding, the project is closed. However, the US military retained sufficient interest in the lightened sky ship.

The MC-27J is one of the latest prototypes of the C-27J Spartan. At one time, it was re-equipped under G.222TCM and put into operation the Italian Air Force. A mock-up artillery unit was installed on it. On the left side caused spetsokras and appropriate labeling.

New aircraft can be used to patrol and protect state borders and conduct special operations to combat pirates and drug trafficking.


Information sources:
http://www.aviaport.ru/news/2012/07/27/238184.html
http://bmpd.livejournal.com/287381.html

Comments

[Director]

Code already we will pay attention to the Gan spikes. And then as the forest wet, so on foot the soldiers go to die. and then got up in the funnel and work. PEOPLE need to take care.

[Region71]

Such aircraft were primarily used to fight partisans. Where there was a great distance from the base. In the early stages in Vietnam, in the jungles of South America. In Vietnam, they were effective until the northerners had air defense systems, even from MZA shelling aircraft crews suffered losses. Another successful application was in Panama. In Colombia, they also used to help government forces, but the partisans riddled the aircraft and refused to use them
It’s better for us not to use such airplanes, now there are too many bearded men with MANPADS, but to treat the area with jet or artillery guns. A hundred times cheaper, more effective in the tens.

[Bosk]

It is enough to compare spirits with the earth and turntables, they are even more effective, and there was a question about such an apparatus .... but they couldn’t find a niche for using such an aircraft, they manage to cope with the militants and, in the event of a serious conflict (therefore counteracting the air defense system) with such a bulky target (which is thought to work with low and medium heights), it’s just not enough to storm someone ... just simply don’t fly. This type of equipment is thought to work with full air supremacy.

[rjhgec55v]

This plane is an excellent target even for DShK and what to say about MANPADS .... it shoots spectacularly at the cinema, but in reality it’s so pshik, now you can only use it for the border guards .. but ours already have AN-70 with 30 tools ... last year, the Japanese schooner our border guards notably holed from the AN-70

[Cutter]

IMHO: A great target for a portable air defense system.

[Director]

in modern small gangs there are no MANPADS. I also note that the Gun Thorn is able to work from 1 km to 5 km, it all depends on optics, as well as at night. GAN thorn gun counterpart guerrillas.

[Igor]

Quote: Cutter

IMHO: A great target for a portable air defense system.

The Americans lost 1 such a plane only in Vietnam and then it was shot down from the air defense system, and in the following conflicts they did not seem to lose such aircraft.

[igordok]

Total combat losses "Ganshipov II" in Indochina amounted to six aircraft. http://vadimvswar.narod.ru/ALL_OUT/TiVOut0507/AASpn/AASpn030.htm

During the operation, it turned out that in desert conditions, in the heat and the air saturated with sand and dust, the infrared systems of the aircraft were absolutely useless. Moreover, one AC-130H while covering ground troops in the battle for Al-Khafi was shot down by an Iraqi air defense missile system, the entire crew of the aircraft was killed. This loss confirmed the well-known truth from the time of Vietnam - in areas saturated with air defense systems, such aircraft have nothing to do. http://topwar.ru/9573-ac-130-tyazhelovooruzhennyy-samolet-podderzhki-suhoputnyh-
podrazdeleniy.html

Three years before the events in the Persian Gulf, the then deputy commander of 23-s of the Air Force, Brigadier General Hansen Scott, said: "If we lose at least one AC-130 in a war, it will be a tragedy." http://www.info.army.co.ua/documents/blog.php?entry_id=1194983400

[Igor]

Oops, he lied to the account of losses, but with the help of this thing you can deliver a lot of problems to the enemy who does not have an air defense system.

[TS3sta3]

I know such an enemy - this is the civilian population. at least, the Americans have always fought well against such an "enemy", one might even say that this is their main enemy.

[Krilion]

... as well as for large-caliber machine guns and all kinds of RPGs ... but it suits Papuans to drive with bows ....

[Brother Sarych]

Purely on the Papuans calculated, it is even better to shoot unarmed at all! These are not our methods, and in the Russian conditions such planes are practically useless - they are effective only in the steppe and deserts ...

[Somad]

Why do you think so? If in our conditions cannon fire from attack aircraft is effective, then from "Ganship" will be effective and the means of countering MANPADS are the same. And the price is 3 times lower.

[Krilion]

Quote: Somad

Why do you think so? If in our conditions cannon fire from attack aircraft is effective, then from "Ganship" will be effective and the means of countering MANPADS are the same. And the price is 3 times lower.

compare the size and maneuverability of the ganship and the attack aircraft and reslocate the stupidity ....

[Somad]

Aha. On "Papuans with bows" - this, in your opinion, is the "smartest" use of "Gunships"!?! I don't know about the dimensions, but maneuverability when firing cannon fire at ground targets is not needed. Especially if there is a round-the-clock electronic-optical search / sighting equipment on board.

[carbofo]

Krilion,
Correctly, we have Mi-28, armored, accurate, fast, with MANPADS we still have to try to knock down.
armament:
Built-in rifle gun: 1 × 30-mm gun 2А42, ammunition 250 shells. [40] [41]
Suspension points: 4
Suspended gun-gun: 2 × 23-mm GSH-23L [41]
Uncontrolled Missile: NAR C-8 [41] - 4 x 20 pcs; NAR C-13 [41] - 4 x 5 pcs;
Guided missile: ATAK-V ATGM (9М120, 9М120Ф, 9А-2200) x16 [41].
Air-to-Air: Needle-In [24] [42] [41] - 4 x 4 pcs.,
Bomb: 250 aerial bombs, 500 kg, incendiary tanks [source not specified 374 of the day]
So there is also a ka-50 with a gun in 30 mm, and the same is armored, and that's not counting the attack aircraft sous-25.

[Hammer]

A very good car would have turned out for border guards, especially sea ones ... otherwise they are fighting from An-70, it is not clear what.

[rjhgec55v]

And what is bad AN-70 ?? for frontier guards they release a special version of An-70; there are nominally two 30 guns there ... last year a Japanese trawler was shot from AN-70

[Oles]

our methods cheers on pill ...

[Volozhanin]

But after all, we have, as it were, an An-72P ganship somewhere in Primorye, chasing poachers

[Rockets]

Quote: Volozhanin

Han-An-72P

combat load - up to 7500 kg:
one 23-mm gun GSH-23 in the container UPK-23-250,
2 PU UB-32 with HUR C-5, 4 bombs FAB-100

[Nubia2]

Not exactly ..
Or rather, not at all.
In this case - just a truck with hanging arms.

[neri73-r]

And in the ganship, what is the armor ???? The same truck spartan with a gun and machine guns on board! The most common type of funnel application (in a circle) over an unarmed village! Ours will not be like this. that's all!

[Nubia2]

Where did I write a word about booking?
Ganship is specifically made for specific purposes.
His weapons and equipment are specifically designed to carry them out, and not just cram uncontrollable weapons under the wings, as long as it was obvious in the 72P case.

Quote: neri73-r

Ours will not be like this.

I wonder why, in your opinion.?)))
Will they prefer to put people on the assault when storming the village?)))

[rjhgec55v]

And where did you read about the armor ??? there was no one there .... in the vtnami they were used only for one year to fire on the Hoshemin road, there was air defense in other places, and a year later the Vietnamese from the AHP dug a hole in one such airplane and all ... the rest of the time they sat on the ground ...

Such an aircraft can only be used against partisans in which only small arms, a heavy machine gun is making holes in this trough of naskovz ...

[Patos89]

Regarding Pzrk Americans work as Apaches in Afghanistan only at night as not seeing that kills you from pzrk it does not make sense to need a radar. Just need the standards for thermal imagers on a helicopter and normal night vision devices

[Ilyukha]

Against a gang of militants who do not have MANPADS, it’s better not to invent. It can stand in a circle for hours, and water from above. Unlike bombs and nours, it does not cause harm, fire-aimed.
What prevents to put such an installation on the AN-26, which we have a lot?

[dimanf]

Quote: Ilyukha

Against a gang of militants who do not have MANPADS, it’s better not to invent

I agree.
it would be nice to drive in the mountains.

[rjhgec55v]

What for????? there are helicopters, there are rooks, a couple of rooks and no goals ...

For the border guards have already created a special version of the AN-70 with 30 mm tool

[Pixel]

I think these machines are needed, but on condition that it is equipped with the most modern means of countering MANPADS, and so on. Militants in the mountains to drive the most it.

[UzRus]

This is not the case in the first part of "Transformers" in the oasis of the robot scorpion finished off?

[Volozhanin]

Yeah, he, beautifully shot, clearly shown

[Andriuha077]

Well, tachanka. It remains to find a gang, which even after the gutting of the Libyan arsenals there are not several MANPADS.

[bairat]

Yes, this is just a cart, there is also an "armored train" with a howitzer on board.

[Astartes]

It seems to me that "Ganship" is an expensive anti-partisan tool. Its advantage over a helicopter is that it can fire from heights inaccessible to conventional weapons systems. I don't think that it deserves mass application, you can't send it to a free search for gangs, so it must work point-wise. a dozen pieces are more than enough.

[rjhgec55v]

At first, they thought so too ... and then it turned out that the DShK easily pulled out this plane .. so that it can be sent with a stretch in search of a target that has only machine guns or even better in general only what shoots meters on 200 ...

In the cinema, the reality looks but reality ... zilch
This is reminiscent of A-18 A-gun. They put a six-barreled cannon of type against tanks .. and the reality showed that the dispersion of projectiles is too large .. the tank made its way through only 60 of release years and then not against buildings too much noise .. and now this gun only hinders ..because shooting only wasted bullets

[sergey261180]

The only place where it is well used is the game Call of Duty. To fight on this, God forbid.

[Bosk]

My friend in the army on Shilka served ..., and he aphorically told me about this toy ....... QUALITY TARGET !!!

[carbofo]

Bosk,
No normal person will use such vehicles in military operations.

[Director]

Gan spike is indispensable in a situation where the bearded 3-4 will sit in the forest, and our ass-headed command will begin to send special forces to ambush, instead of several killed Russian soldiers, you can make one departure of such a machine, stand in the funnel for a couple of hours to blurt out their positions and competently cover. Nobody talks about dozens of such machines, but 1-2 would be very helpful to specialists in difficult topographic conditions against a covert enemy. Moreover, the cost of such a ship is less than the cost of attack aircraft.

[Chicot 1]

Ganship is a rather peculiar, interesting, in some cases quite effective, but still very controversial type of aircraft armament ...

However, from me according to the tradition of aviation art. True, not with the hero of this material, but so to speak with the ancestor of the ganships as such. So...

AC-47 "Spooky"

[carbofo]

By the way, here is the topic of the ganships, we have more relevant this way:


Not surprisingly, the convenience and simplicity of the ATS-17 attracted aircraft designers and, without wasting time developing a special on-board version, they began to install the usual infantry model on a standard tripod machine on the Mi-8. The power was supplied from the tape in the drum on 29 VOG-17 shots with an 275-gram fragmentation grenade (the “non-round” number was due to the fact that, according to the characteristics of charging, the first link always went empty). Two more drums were placed in a canvas bag under the spare ammunition, fastened side by side on the left side. The final set of the factory set included wooden “shoes” for supports and extensions with which “Flame” was fastened to the floor, extinguishing its still tangible return for small arms, so that the twitching grenade launcher would not fly out of the cabin (when firing on the ground, the AGS jumped so that its supports I had to dig into the ground or straddle the machine, pressing my rigorous weapons with my weight).

It was necessary to fire the AGS by directing it forward along the flight with a corresponding lead in terms of distance and height, according to the speed of the helicopter and the trajectory of the flying grenades. Shooting from the circle was the most effective when the helicopter was laying a turn around the target, and it always remained in sight, allowing you to accurately point the weapon.

In one such case, a pair of Mi-8Ts with lead captain E. Surnin from 280-AFP, performing 11 June 1980, a search in the area south of Ghazni, stumbled upon an equestrian force in the foothills. Helicopters recently retooled under reinforced weapons, and the pilots had the opportunity to practice shooting. Bortekhnik M. Kehl, from the Volga “Russian Germans”, said: “They rode beautifully, like in the films about the Civil War, in turbans and cartridge belts, beshmets flew downwind. It was dived into a palm grove, but the commander laid a sharp turn around her, cutting off the path. Until they scattered, I covered the whole group with a short burst of grenades at ten. The goal was on sight, near, so that the fountains of ruptures were visible very clearly, lay down heap. They made another circle - not one rose, only the horse jumped out of the grove with its belly open, and she collapsed right there. ”
Taken
http://topwar.ru/20920-vertoletnaya-voyna-afganistan-vosmerka.html