As irregular conflict becomes the norm, military leaders are turning to retrofitted agricultural planes.
and through the decades-long drug war, the United States and Colombia routinely sprayed coca crops with herbicides in military efforts against drug cartels.
Both of these early military applications were similar to the original intention of crop-dusting: to spray deadly chemicals on plant life from above. According to writer and defense expert , the idea of a crop-duster converted into an attack aircraft—one like the Iomax Archangel—came out of these earlier uses.Trevithick says crop-dusting planes proved to be efficient and simple, given their original purpose as agricultural implements. “Those aircraft are also designed at their core to operate at very low levels and be relatively easy to fly,” Trevithick said via email.
reported that the head of Air Force Special Operations Command, Lt. General Jim Slife, wants to deploy the AT-802 in Africa, where insurgent groups have little to no control over airspace and are especially vulnerable to aerial strikes.
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