We've finally found it: the Hyper Tucano

my favorite part is the fact that when stored the rear canon is just pointed at the back of the pilot and gunners heads

Now you need to make the biggest gunship you can build. edit: thx for almost 600 likes :D

This was essentially built already as the OV-10 Bronco. Which was a beast of an aircraft for the time. Excellent observation capabilities good internal storage space and incredibly easy to maintain.

Wondering if the turrets could shoot down projectiles like a C-RAM.

I would love to see more large, cargo/tanker/transport style aircraft. And then you can proceed to armor them to something like the B-17 Flying fortress

You missed the big howitzer, though, so to make up for it, now you need to Germanymax and mount the biggest possible cannon you can to a moderately-sized plane (somewhere between an Hs 129 and a B-25).

I was a bit sceptical about the gun placement, but wow, it worked nicely! Cant wait for this game to finally release in early access!

Wonder if this one would also give its crew cancer lol

Also curious if this game would allow you to make a modern combat airship and cargo airship. A modern combat design could be used as a massive air superiority Zeppelin. It parks over a desired objective area you wish to lock down and is covered in tons of CWIS, positions for shoulder fired MANPADs, and guided missile turrets. Automatic targeting systems and radar coverage will inform them the moment a target enters their AO.

AC-130 ABOVE!!!

You basically just made an A10 warthog that has turrets.

There was actually a OV-10 gunship variant called the YOV-10D Night Observation Gun System (NOGS) with a m95 Gatling turret under the fuselage.

Literally the first person I choose to watch over a wide variety of content, absolutely love these videos! Great work on this one 👀

Now that plane looks like if a A-10 and AC-130 had a child it would be that plane.

I like it. A lot. It's funny that the maverick is so slow you can fire it, and fly the plane to the target, make your sweep, destroy target with guns before the maverick makes it there 😂 it gets there and sees a charred tank and wonders "what did I miss?"

Video idea: I don’t think this is possible but it would be sick if you made a super maneuverable passenger plane.

Now make tanks fly… or a flying tank… tank carrier aircraft

Twin boom a-10 ok, interesting

I’m an engineer in the field of aerospace and I really like the base design of the airframe, as a twin engine it would fly great and looks a lot like the OV-10 Bronco. Weapons placement and the back motors not so much but hey this is just fun.

I've been experimenting with a Harrier-type gunship for a while in Simpleplanes, and i am glad tbat you tried something like it in FlyOut. Good build 👍

I find using turrets in Flyout is a lot easier when their custom axis's are bound to the arrow keys. Aiming with mouse sliders alone is neigh impossible

I would think the C-146A would make a great 2 engine platform for an AC-146. It's already in inventory. It's based on the Dornier 328 turboprop, which means there are already parts out there for it. It can carry 10,000lbs of guns, ammo, fuel, and mission specific equipment. The wings and the propellers are mounted high, so it'll do okay in rough forward airbases.

I've watched all of your video's and I have to say, this is my favorite channel by far, its just perfect, interesting topics and great commentary instead of an overly hyped 20 year old screaming in a tutorial on how to do something in a game that he magically managed to get to a 20 minute video

The most intuitive problem is that the tail rudder is too small. Secondly, in the recent war, the reality shows that the threat of individual air defense to this direct anti-infantry aircraft is too great, and perhaps the future will be the era of patrolling missile projection platforms.

You could use the original AC-47 targeting method of a 3-4-5 triangle. 4k ft radius orbit, 3k ft up, puts guns at 5k ft range. 53° angle of bank, maybe a little less for arc of fire and you'd beat the area at the centre of the orbit with fire.

I can't believe how much care this man puts into his videos, and he never fails to progressively getting better and better. Definitely deserving of all the growth this channel has seen

Loving the content recently!

I loved this plane, I posted a similar crosssection vector in your server of a P2V which I names the P2V-8FH Super Neptune which had like a 20mm gatling on the belly that could be replace the 2x12.7mm turret in the rear. Could also carry either 2x50mm, 2x57mm, or a single 77mm for antishipping mission or for screwing the casual frigate or DD. Came with radar rangefinder, 1950’s-ish Night vision, Could bring 4 torpedoes and is faster than even the japanese P-2

Bro just loves the little light strips

I love the design.

Nice. I can't help but compare the mission to that of the A-10 .

*Slaps roof of tiny gunship* "This baby can dust more than just crops..."

I like this it looks like a crimson skies plane

Nice plane but have you heard of the IA-58 Pucará? I think it kinda fit in the desing as well

The niche this thing fits in (specialized ground-attack for low intensity or asymmetric warfare) is generally occupied by very many missiles harnessed to a dirt cheap subsonic aircraft, like an A-10, harrier, or Su-25.

That plane reminds of the Skygrasper from Gundam Seed that a beam cannon turret behind the cockpit and a pair of engines on the wing tips.

BadAss, i like it! It will do the job!!

A 10 if they just never stopped the designers from designing while also keep them stoked up on Peruvian marching powder

I dare you to make the perfect kamikaze plane

WOW, ABSOLUTLY SPLENDID. MY LATE BROTHER GOT ME INTO THE KERBAL PROGRAM, I SEE HIS ENTHUSIASM FOR IT. GREAT BUILD!

That gun location is crazy !

The US Marines modified two OV-10 Broncos in the 1980s into the YOV-10D "NOG" 'night operation gunship' and it was equipped with a M97 gun turret - which fires 20x102mm calibre rounds

Ah yes, a downgraded mass produceable A-10 spraying explosive death, another fuel for our nightmares

OV-10 Bronco could totally be a loiter drone with a minigun and laser range-finder to ensure accurate fires. just saturating the area with top-down 20mm is plenty to keep insurgents down or cause them to consider retrograde operations.

Bro casually made a design that could get rid of both the A-10 and AC-130. More fine tuning and Lockheed is gonna come knocking with a job

Triple boom. A bold choice. Have to say though, It doesn't look like there is enough room for a long loiter time after ammo, turret mechanisms, avionics etc are installed, especially with the thin wings

Gheee things are certain: death, taxes, and messier 82 putting a twin boom on something.

Welcome back, boulton paul defiant

IT sounds like an rc plane... I love it lol

Was kinda hoping you would go the route of building a modernized/futuristic Grumman Tracker style of aircraft and equipping it for gunship duties. This design feels quite similiar to those you've already built as heavy fighters/interceptors in Prop Punk. I also feel that for flight efficiency and areodynamic reasons you should make some fairings that cover the cannons from the slipstream when they are not in use, on the current design that is, rather ruins the lines of the aircraft and despite their angular design, would likely create a lot of unwanted or unnecessary drag.

Beautiful!

Cool aircraft. You can really see the OV-10 influences here. A couple suggestions if you play with this some more? You could mount the engine exhaust ports on the INNER boom for better heat signature masking. Change the tail rudder surfaces from vertical to canting INWARD or OUTWARD for better radar dispersion. Choose ONE GUN and mount it on the bottom of the fuselage more towards the middle for better weight distribution and lower cost. Use the weight savings from paring down to one gun for more hard points under the wings for guided weapons, etc. With only one gun to control you may be able to drop the WSO and crew ship with one busy pilot. More weight savings. Maybe try out a wing with slightly swept back leading edge for better speed and increase wing span and surface area for more stable flying characteristics and more internal area for fuel storage = better range and loiter capability. Cheers!

Looks like a OV-10 bronco with a turret strapped on

The minimum traverse for that autocannon would suck

That swinging gun in back will have aerodynamic effects when it swings around, won't it?

Aside from the existential dread pooling in the bottom of the cockpit. I think this is a pretty good advertisement for a return to dorsal turrets. More specifically in a light aircraft. The AC-130 gives up some of its rough landing capability for its armament. A light aircraft capable of using unprepared runways could be pretty effective.

This reminded me of a B-1 gunship project.

Ooooh, I love this channel and I do this in my head but with everything, I'm a huge sci-fi geek so but never knew this was possible, but I have some ideas for this platform!!!

Liked & subbed. Really liking some of your prop plane concepts , keep them coming . Triple barrel rotary 84mm recoilless gun ( Carl Gustav mini gun hybrid ) or much simpler auto loading Carl Gustav for multi mission use . With use of newer technologies like true velocity’s plastic cased ammunition, modern internal & external ballistics of cartridges & projectiles it’s possible to get very reasonable ballistic performance from much lighter & smaller ammunition. Helping to bring extra performance & cost savings into the package.

The massive flying cruise liner you made got me thinking. The observation area looks like an AWACS. It would be cool to see you make a converted version intended to act as a nuclear powered mobile command craft, with many CWIS style defensive turrets on it to protect from missiles. It would be always on the move, patrolling the airspace of its country, and most likely have the air to air refueling as well as docking for smaller aircraft. Kinda like taking airforce 1 and turning it into a mobile defended pentagon for high command.

The dorsal turret is hilarious 😂. I think maybe a mini gun or some dual, triple, quad .50cal would be more "practical". Back seater needs a helmet mounted sight.

Choked myself when you said "a salt and pepper" xD 2:50

I imagine the dorsal turret being rearward facing usually as no pilot would like to have their own cannon pointing their own heads. Otherwise this is a really interesting take and a nice Spectre/Bronco mash-up.

Can’t wait to play flyout

The airforce must hire this guy

In Your build, maybe instead of cal 50 gatling, might be more advantageous to use 3 barrel heavy machinegun. 3 barrels instead of more, bit smaller cadency, but still quite ammo guzzler, with redundant barrels in case of jamming, or failure. Another posibility is to use lightest "heavy" machinegun (like chineese QJZ-89) barrel integrated into the wing, with body of the gun inside the hull of the airplane, for bigger ammo rack to supply the gun.

i see so much of a crossover between your remixed A-10 your ramming fighter and the tank caliber plane

"Assault and pepper" is a clever pun even if it is bad.

great video! keep it up

the military introduced something like this a year ago. Its an uparmored cropduster. It's called the Skywarden

Fun fact: for ground attack you can put a ramjet in an AGM-65 to make it a hypersonic cruise missile

Have you submitted this idea to DARPA. CANT HURT.

if he made this design in the 60s he'd be rich in mansion rn

The original AC130 proved successful in Viet Nam, but the production of transport versions had higher priority. So, the USAF converted mothballed twin engine C119s into AC119 which were superior to the AC47 and were used effectively by the US and South Vietnam until the very end of the war. The intended usage of these platforms was in orbit mode such that the firepower would be directed at a stationary point on the ground. However, with its thermal night vision, the AC119 proved effective in hunting moving targets, destroying vehicles moving along the Ho Chi Min trail.

The rotating turret would be better served on the bottom of the fuselage

The moment he started talking about the chaff and flares i started getting a lonely vibe as if he was lonely

Socom is doing a similar thing for the US special forces, but they're using a crop duster as the base of the plane.

I like your OV10 much better than the one I actually flew.

Great video!

Morning uploads are goated

Low mounted wings are bad in a plane where the pilots will spend a lot of time looking at the ground

I would argue that the lack of detail on the interior of the plane is no issue at all

Love the aircraft designs U do, they weird stile, but there cool in there own way

Looks like an upgraded bronco

Yooo, it looks like a mix of a P38 and a a10 hog!

I wonder how effective it'd be to use almost like a flying wing airframe, with the weaponry being able to be brought outside via doors on an underbelly of the aircraft. I'm guessing with the large wingspan it be able to loiter within the air altitude for longer periods of time

A aircraft version of Apache attack helicopter? I love it.

this exists more or less, its called the Sky Warden, its a Single prop piston powered firefighting aircraft, retrofitted to hold Hellfire missiles and Paveway guided bombs

With $10000 an hour, you'd expect the man. The human aspect of it all to make just a little bit more money, wouldn't you?

Congrats, you've made a less sturdy and even slower A-10

Nice design thought experiment, but I believe if you used realistic weights for the amount of ordinance you have identified, plus a reasonable flight distance and loiter time, the plane has to grow in size. For the armament you have chosen, plus fuel load, you are likely looking at about 25,000+ pounds empty weight and 45,000 to 50,000 pounds max take-off weight depending on armament and fuel loadout. This is essentially an A-10. You will likely need an armored tub for the pilot and back seater, similar to the A-10, as this plane will have to fly at lower altitudes (probably 5,000 to 6,000 ft) than the AC-130 Spooky (10,000 to 12,000 ft) due to the smaller armament not having the range to loiter at higher altitudes. Would be interesting to see you take an A-10, remove the GAU-8, substitute the 25mm front gun and 32mm or 35mm rear autocannon, and add a back seat position.

One change I would reverse the travel position on the rear gun having the barrel aimed at your cockpit is a bit unnerving

if turret autocannon was sticking out of rear under tail, perhaps help if tail raised up some? easier to hit targets on ground without needing to tilt and turn as much, wings not get in way, but it would be at risk on takeoff and landing

Reminds me of the A-10 replacement the airforce tried doing

Make this a drone and give it a GAU-8 and you're cookin'...

You should look up the Au-23 and Au-24 of the mini-gunship program!

i would call this the A-11 Striker

Well, now I think about the Spectre Gunship from Generals and you probably should take a look at it. Either a Vtol Gunship or a supersonic Gunship.

Needs re-naming to the Wiley E. Coyoti