Powerful Modern WW2 Looking Plane in Action: A-29 Super Tucano During Live Fire Exercise

Videos showing numbers of Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano (also know as A-29 Super Tucano) armed with Hydra-70 rockets (70mm), .50 machine gun (M3P) and Mark 82 bomb during Live fire exercise.

The Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano , also named ALX or A-29 is a turboprop aircraft designed for light attack, counter insurgency (COIN), close air support, aerial reconnaissance missions in low threat environments, as well as providing pilot training.

Designed to operate in high temperature and humidity conditions in extremely rugged terrain, the Super Tucano is highly maneuverable, has a low heat signature, incorporates fourth generation avionics and weapons system to deliver precision guided munitions.

In 2011 the A-29 Super Tucano was declared the winner of the US Light Air Support (LAS) contract competition over the Hawker Beechcraft AT-6B Texan II. The contract was canceled in 2012 citing concerns with the procurement process, but re-won in 2013. Twenty of these Light Attack Aircraft are purchased for the Afghan Air Force.

The first four aircraft arrived in Afghanistan in January 2016, with a further four due before the end of 2016. Combat ready Afghan A-29 pilots graduated from training at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia returned to Afghanistan to represent the first of a total of 30 pilots trained by the 81st Fighter Squadron at Moody.

A fleet of 20 A-29’s will be in place by 2018, according to a senior U.S. defense official. The Pentagon purchased the Super Tucanos in a $427 million contract with Sierra Nevada Corp. and Embraer, with the aircraft produced at Embraer’s facility in Jacksonville, Florida.

Pilot training is undertaken by the U.S. Air Force’s 81st Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The Afghan Air Force’s new fixed-wing Embraer/Sierra Nevada A-29 Super Tucano could soon make its combat debut after the first four aircraft arrived at Hamid Karzai International Airport on January 15, 2016.

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