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Ananda

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Ananda

Ananda

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swerve

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That looks like a Piaggio P.180 Avanti.

Baykar bought Piaggio out of administration a couple of years ago, & has recently sold some new ones.
 
Sandhi Yudha

Sandhi Yudha

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swerve said:
That looks like a Piaggio P.180 Avanti.

Baykar bought Piaggio out of administration a couple of years ago, & has recently sold some new ones.
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Yes, Piaggio rolled out the first P.180MPA in 2015, a variant with more wing span, but still not foldable. The P.180 has enough speed and range, and being compact makes this aircraft quite suitable as a naval AEW/MPA/ASW aircraft for aircraft carriers.
 
John Fedup

John Fedup

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Sandhi Yudha said:
Yes, Piaggio rolled out the first P.180MPA in 2015, a variant with more wing span, but still not foldable. The P.180 has enough speed and range, and being compact makes this aircraft quite suitable as a naval AEW/MPA/ASW aircraft for aircraft carriers.
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Having a hard time seeing this aircraft on a carrier, either on STOBAR or CATOBAR carriers.
 
Sandhi Yudha

Sandhi Yudha

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John Fedup said:
Having a hard time seeing this aircraft on a carrier, either on STOBAR or CATOBAR carriers.
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Yes, and not only the wings need to be redesigned, also the landing gear and parts of the fuselage need to be strengthened. It will need years and quite a large budget.
 
JudgeKing

JudgeKing

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John Fedup said:
Having a hard time seeing this aircraft on a carrier, either on STOBAR or CATOBAR carriers.
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I could see it being used on a CATOBAR carrier. In the mid-1960s, Boeing proposed using a 727 variant as a COD aircraft.

Hell, here's an ad from 1981 regarding a proposal to use the Fokker F-28 Fellowship as a replacement for the C-2 Greyhound COD aircraft.
 
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