Congress considering creating new branch of military - Space Corp

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Here's a change I could support and would be money better spent that creating a separate Space Force: USAF looking (again) at buying prop-driven ground attack aircraft.
Competitors are:
The Brazilian Embraer/Sierra Nevada AT-29B Tucano
The Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine
Air Tractor AT-802
The Textron AirLand Scorpion (although this one is a jet)

Props are a lot cheaper to fly (per flight hour), can usually take off at rougher forward airfields, and fly slower, giving the pilot & bombardier a better look at their targets.
Not the first time the ** looked at simple turboprops for this role.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-48_Enforcer
 

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