ITT you take a plane that is at least 50 years old and imagine an upgrade package for it to make it relevant as possible.

My beloved twin mustang will receive turboprop engines and an AESA radar in a giant pod between the fuselages. Below each fuselage, a single AMRAAM. The loyal citizens of my despotic regime may die by the hundreds piloting these contraptions but they will still be semi dangerous.

This is the cringest thread right now.

>>63890930
You WILL allow this person to chat about their dreams or i will make this FAR, FAR worse, am i understood?

>>63890986
>the norktard
OF COURSE!

>>63890986
eat shit norktard you already made it much worse

>>63890986
>FAR, FAR worse
Do it.

>>63890913 (OP)
Radar mofos, coming to get you.

>>63890913 (OP)
I fill it with thousands and thousands of drones.

>>63890913 (OP)
>twin Mustang

literally what is the point

>>63891067
It's like a Mustang but twice as much.

>>63890913 (OP)
>twice the maintenance
Yeah.

>>63890913 (OP)

>>63891093
put radar in nose that can angle in any direction frontally, link the turret guns to it to shoot down shasneed drones.

>>63891067
There's 2 of them

>turboprop
>modern comms etc
>probably electrify the turret drive
>higher rate of fire MGs
>offer a manned turret (w/ HMD and joypad controls) and an AI controlled version
time to hunt drones

Here we have a rather rare picture of what appears to be a Po-2 air ambulance with a hard skin and shell over the transport compartment, i suspect it is some form of Bakelite ¶As part of the Po-2M project the cargo area would be modular to allow for multi mission field configuration ¶In this case the primary modernization would be a widened passenger section to accommodate access by the medic via a catwalk equipped with modern life support and strip lighting for a pair of patients ¶The body of the module would be fiberglass while the rest of the airframe would be modern shrink wrapped skin preferably Oratex ¶The Po-2M itself would receive other modernizations which are beyond the scope of this particular post

>>63890913 (OP)
Instead of having a second pilot why didn't they give fighter pilots go pills like they did with the bomber pilots?

>reconfigure bomb bay for A2A use. rotary AMRAAM racks, say 48 total and fill the rest with fuel tanks
>possible engine upgrade for super cruise
>maybe even add in a point defense laser
>anti radar coating


poor mans J-36

>bro what if we uhh took a ww2 plane and gave it a radar and a turboporp?
no creativity

>>63891113
>still not in War Thunder
fucking useless Russian faggot devs

>>63891140
Make him the controller for the automated P-51 loyal wingmen.

>>63891154
Naw bro we need to add more random cold war era projects that use the same gun as everything else at that tier and never got past prototype status

>>63891067
Range and crew endurance. Early jets had jackshit for time on station, and having two guys means they can take turns relaxing.

>>63891332
Modern 'fabrics' approach early aluminum skins for strength in low speed applications, it's weight could be dramatically reduced and range increased if you could find one that would serve: https://betteraircraftfabric.com/

>>63890986
The Po-2 is the only biplane with a documented jet kill. It doesn't need any upgrades.

Serious question, other than Muh Stealth, what actually keeps cold war era jets from just being upgraded with modern avionics and loaded as low-cost missile trucks or converted into drone fighters? They have kinematic performance that is still very much relevant. In fact a lot of 4th gens are comparatively underpowered and wouldn't be able to catch them.

Anyway I would like an unmanned cruise missile in the form of an English electric lightning loaded to the gills with bombs, fuel tanks, and an automatic guidance system.

>>63891055
So actually someone please explain to me why they haven't modified at least one old 747 this to simultaneously fire hundreds of ALCMs in a giant swarm from standoff range?

>>63891522
I was talking about the twin Mustang, Oratex or carbon fiber could possibly replace the skin.

And hell yes a Po-2 needs a better skin, bakelite is an improvement in how flammable their skins are. 'Flying comet' was a nickname and not in a good way.

Besides modernizing materials and some modest avionics upgrades the big change for the Po-2M would be making everything rear of the pilot modular so it could be reconfigured for various roles, they had several dozen variants including 5 person enclosed passenger versions.

>>63891540
Absolutely nothing, as i've pointed out a Il-28/H-5 could function perfectly well a a carrier for something like a Kinzal.

>drone fighters

One of the reasons the DPRK has so many early cold war fighters functioning is they can make the engines, the same engines were used for early cruise missiles and drones. They use freaking VK1s in their global hawk knock off. What you suggest, turning old frames into drones is entirely possible and has been done.

>>63890913 (OP)
>>63891101
Best aircraft for the Sith.

>>63891143
I remember a thread about this:
>4x F130s
>At least 3x F35 radars to ensure quasi spherical radar coverage
>Enough IRST diamonds for same coverage, but for the thermoptic spectrum.
>Bays and racks full of AMRAAMS, hell, AIM-174s
Essentially Ichiro Itano's wet dream, a BoneR, if you will.

now imagine if each of these bombs contained two autonomous/pre-programmed drones