or any vehicle-mounted .50 cal.
I made reference to Felton’s video earlier in the thread about our giving Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
Although a biplane, from all accounts the An-2 is a very useful and versatile airplane. But for those who don’t bother to watch the video, here’s what Felton says. First at least a couple of dozen An-2s have shown up recently at a Russian airbase near Ukraine. The Azerbaijanis have loaded up An-2s with explosives, have a pilot get them pointed in the right direction and then bail out. On radar they appear to be an attack helicopter so air defenses shoot them down, thus using very expensive missiles to take down a relatively cheap unmanned-kamikaze. Trouble is you can’t just ignore them, since they will cause lots of damage when they come down.
Apparently the Russians are planning convert the An-2s into drones and attack Ukraine with them. I suppose you can think of them as very slow V-1s. Besides making Ukraine shoot them down, by doing so they reveal where the defenses are located thus open to attack from more sophisticated means.
During Vietnam War, North Vietnam used some AN 2 to attack secret CIA sites in Laos
In one case an AN2 was shot down by a helicopter , the helicopter flew along side of it and the crew fired out the side door with sub machine guns .....!!
or any vehicle-mounted .50 cal.
“Although a biplane, from all accounts the An-2 is a very useful and versatile airplane”
North Korea has some AN-2 as well. Apparently better maintained than their jets.
I’m no pilot but have read that given sufficient headwind the plane has such a low stall speed that it can hover in place or even fly backward.