I think I’d die of happiness. 30mm gunpods. Rocket pods. Countermeasures. Exocets. There has never been anything so glorious to happen to a business jet. The sheer comedic potential is unmatched
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It’s so cute I might cry. This thing activates my maternal instincts.
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I have a little more info on the COIN PAC CT/4 for you guys.
The aircraft photographed seems to be ZK-DGY, PAC’s production prototype, and the one that remained with the company for testing and sales pitches. AFAIK at the time she was the prototype for the ‘Swiss’ (actually bound for Rhodesia via a Swiss shell company) order of 14 CT/4B, all of which seems to have had the hardpoints + wingtip tanks.
When that order was shut down by the NZ govt the 14 aircraft had it all removed for their sale to Aus. There is a 6-page brochure out there about the CT/4 from 1972 which supposedly has more photos of the rocket pods, but I only have this small extract showing the wingtip tanks, but it does mention the hardpoints.
There’s also a few photos of the RAAF CT/4 A19-064 rigged with missiles as a joke.
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Even though the missiles are a meme… I’m guessing it confirms that it has 4 or 5 useable hardpoints.
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Rare Katangan Fouga Magister
I’m not sure they are even on hardpoints, probably just taped on there or something to take those static ground photos for the laughs. Remember the RAAF versions were unarmed.
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AAC Wamira prototype/EMU (Engineering Mockup). The Wamira prototype (more specifically A-20) is still around. Interestingly enough that’s not the only incomplete prototype/mockup Australian combat vehicle that survives. The CAC CA-31 EMU is also around
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I think COIN aircraft should be in the current Heli tree and replace the current spawn aircraft in tank battles. That would actually make ground AB and RB feel a lot more realistic.