Could the Textron Scorpion Jet be the Light Attack and ISR Platform of the Future? - AINtv 

So sad to see dozens of these designs pop up and then slowly fade away with the years. The F-20 was one that I really thought should have been adopted by somebody.

The design reminds me of the F14. Especially with the twin engine design being apart of the vertical and horizontal stabilizers.

It's good to see aircraft competing for sales in this day in age. This reminds me of the F5. Almost like the days of old during g the Cold War

Surprised a few nations haven't grabbed this yet. It won't be an air superiority fighter, but it can do drug plane intercepts, attack light ground areas, and recon extremely well.

If i hv my own small country i would ve buy this for my air defence

Australia need a few thousand of these!

Affordable air force.

It's very beautiful.

It looks good

Amazing aircraft and it has back up cables

That Senior Demo Pilot should also be made head of sales. I was almost convinced to buy a squadron for my armchair airforce.

Ok, hear me out here... I was thinking at first "man it would be cool if this plane had an integrated gun like the A-10, so it could drop down and engage ground targets in emergency CAS operations from an ISR role"... but then after reading about the multiple nose bays on the plane for integration of AESA, EO, Tpod, etc. and how heavy the GAU-30 is in the A-10. I thought "When are we going to see a plane with a smaller caliber (maybe 20mm) fully gimballed auto-cannon in the nose/belly." Imagine a plane like the Scorpion, outfitted with no ordnance, flying an ISR mission, is vectored to an area where ground troops are in trouble. Carrying its EW payloads on the wings, and a radar in the nose, the scorpion could deploy a gimballed autocannon, drop down low and provide accurate fire on a a location designated by a JTAC or the WSO.... I cant stop thinking about this idea now! lol

But does this have a titanium tub and a triple redundant system?

Could use this for Coastal Air Defense.

Hope you can offer this to Philippines dept. of National Defense

Looks like someone is trying to revive the Northrop YA-9

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how i wish our government will consider in procuring this plane aside from a-29 tucano that we had already ordered from brasil.. it fits in our country to protect our territory and fighting terrorists insurgencies in the different parts of provinces in my country philippines.

Civilian contractors will know that cost control is important and that it'll be dependable too

Wow. Looks like a big drone

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I think it would be great for smaller nations that are allied with you so they can use them as coastal patrol aircraft as spotters and having the ability to defend it s self depends what you place on them . lets say you have some Island nations working with you , in the overall picture , they place less stress on the major fighters doing patrolling and integrate between them and their big brothers are ready to take over. The smaller aircraft can also loiter longer... they could place missile pods or even some larger ordnance and it is quicker than a helicopter and maybe better in some rolls or using a combination them, and that little jet engine can move a little quicker and it easy to get parts for them . But people you know what....no one would not do that because their is not enough money for them, if one day the shit hits the fan, countries will be raiding the bone yards to fly any thing even if it a one way trip.

Yes in trained squads kickass

Gee, IAM very impressed with this plane .xxx

Is the sixth generation fighter no longer high-tech stealth, but instead cost efficiency orientated? No question, this plane is no opponent for a F-22, but it IS more than enough for a wide variety of other tasks for which the Raptor would be complete overkill.

wow! very beautiful aircraft,it is very fit&suitable for our Mother Land Armed Forces specially Philippine Air Force,please contact asap our goverment&please convince them to buy your very beutiful aircraft please.

Which customers? From the arm forces?

They have found a buyer El Salvador is going to buy it, I think it will work well for us🎉🎉🎉

Its no A-10, but it would be a great addition to the CAS fleet.

I find it quite logical that this never went anywhere. It might be cheaper to operate than a A-10, but other than that offers barely any advantages over the system it might have replaced. The biggest issue is that it pretty much needs long and well maintained runways to operate from, which is one of the reasons why the A-10 doesn't work in its intended role anymore.

should be interesting to see this Jet in fight with a F16 or Mig-29. I think the Textron is more reliable to attack enemies on the ground

Light defense aircraft might be great but, that still leaves the A10 as an extremely capable safe and effective for dangerous sorties.

Not sure about that wing design though....maybe a little sweep, wider surface perhaps...

Sometimes you just need something that can fly higher & faster than an attack helicopter to drop a couple bombs on a poorly equipped ground force. If they do buy it, it'll basically replace the A-10. Mind you the A-10 is "better"... but it's gun tends to slowly destroy it's airframe with recoil. So A-10's can't be used forever like the B-52.

Talvez sea mejor para el salvador el Escorpión que el pampa III ...por los sensores que lleva los misiles guiados ...la velocidad es igual creo yo en ambos aviones....aunque con 20 millones se podrá comprar otro que sea más veloz?

This is how future would be..

We need this airplane in El Salvador

Now make this a little more heavier with matey a nice chain gun, with light attack missles, you may have something

It won't last as long as the big battle eagle would put the too of them on a mission that would be as big as a 3 mile long enemies ground a field between mountains being shot at from both sides which one would make back to bace . And wich one would do the most damage to enemie grounds

Looks like the Su25 and the FA18, and the A10 had a three way baby

Brazil ....tucano...my good

Only 20 Mil damn.

It should be a very great training aircraft and ground attack ,I think out country (Taiwan) need some , three days ago our one of pilot die because one of old F5e fighter malfunction , Taiwanese Air Forces use these F5e as highest training aircraft , but we cant get any components supply to maintain our F5e , scorpion seen a great option to replace these old F5e , really

I think they should change the wings on it

This plane can replace most of what the A-10 does as well. Cheap guided 2.75” rockets make the Scorpion just as effective for ground support in low-threat environments. No need for a big gun anymore.

It only has a 50cal cannon ? Is the cockpit even armoured like the A-10 ? The engines are far too low for dirt runways.

the body kind of reminds me of the me262

These kinds of aircrafts are ideal for smaller and less powerful nations that are looking for an affordable option. Sadly, my country went for the A29 Tucano to replace the OV10. 😅

Malaysia should have this planes..

I hope it gets contracts

Hope the Philippine Airforce acquire this aircraft for CAS and COIN missions

Philippines would need a squadron or two

Its could!

I think can, use F-107 Engine

What a pity this wasn't picked up by air forces.

I mean there was already a Scorpion plane....dunno how I feel about reusing the name

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Keep the A-10 alive!

look like a mini f14 tomcat the back!!

This should replace the A-10 warthog.

Indonesia need this for patrol island to island

Keep the A 10

If only they had been able to design a prettier wing. I know that’s such a minor quibble as this is most definitely a VERY capable airplane. I’m just antiquated in my belief that the prettier and airplane is, the more capable it is. I do love the Scorpion, but that straight wing just makes it look like everyone who engineered the project got fired on wing day and Textron outsourced that last bit to a committee overseas.

Bring back the A-1 Skyraider! Sandy low lead this is Cole 505

SOMEONE PLEASE ADD THIS TO ARMA 3!!! 😭

This should be the Future of US ARMY Aviation! P.S. Dont give me that dead beat failing no fixed wing B.S. Your fired!

Sounds like a manned attack drone.....which is excellent.

Where's the gun? If they are replacing the A 10. No gun like the A 10 bad move .

LOOKS LIKE A MINI F-14 TOMCAT.

lástima que no lo traducen estaría interesante poder contar con este avion en mi País que la fuerza aerea está arruinada

Even Korea and turkey building supersonic jet for training, Cessna what are you doing ?

Where is the damn Vulcan?

This new Textron Scorpion is going to need to be loaded with missiles to do the same job the A 10 dose. That's because firing the GAU 8 would take it out of the sky. Once again smaller and cheaper plane's would be like sending Boy Scout's over to war's in little toy plane's.

Need to make it faster

It look a bit like a Sukhoi 25 frogfoot

Это реактивный супер тукано?

Defend coastal or cities....ready to fight

A-10 isn't replace by any jet . It's the Superpower for ground attack and support groups ! In another hand usa has already F16 for high altitude ground attack and high speed attack jet . If you talk about mow jet ground attack for poor countries , it's another problem. If Usa will let down A-10 i am sure than a lot of countries would like to buy it for second hand . India , Australia , France etc...

cute plane but yak-130 is better and faster overall. but both are good as light attack/trainers.

The Scorpion can never be an A-10 light version, the pilot and crew are not armor protected to enemy fire, and the engines and intakes are low and restrict under wing hard point for weapons. Where as the A-10 engines are mounted high in the back protected by armor. The overall design of a new light version of a CAS aircraft should be modeled after the A-10 because of its intelligent and simple design. The Scorpion, and the Super Tucano are not designed that way, they are like the a patrol cars in the air armed with machine guns, bombs and missiles.

Bring back the A-29 Tiger Shark

Convert this into UAV, then it will make sense maybe, for the u.s government

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for patrol teritory land and sea very good, cheap operasional.

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I've seen a three barreled .50 several times on other sites. Maybe they could put one or two of these on a Scorpion, or put a single six barreled .50 gatling gun on it.

It kind of looks like an f14...

Se mira lento ,con solo que vuel igual o más rápido que los dragonfly de El Salvador...es mejor en los sensores que lleva y los misiles o cohetes que lleva

For a light ground attacker the A29 Super Tucano is a much better option. It is cheaper and easier to maintain. The cost of 1 hour in the air is a fraction of any jet plane. And it is a combat tested airplane in many diferent scenarios from Colombia to Afheganistan. It is also used by severa Ari Forces including the RAF so you won't have problems with spare parts. And in adition when the time came to replace them it will be easier to find buyers.

The problem with American military industry FROM A FOREIGN COUNTRY VIEW is the US government can intervene at anytime they feel to SUSPEND any sales of military weapons , maintenance and supplies for any political reasons ( with or without validation) l would rather do business with a country that DOES NOT NEED the ok from the US. Israel, Russia, Brasil ???

The A-10 costs just under half per unit, costs half per flight hour, is cheaper to maintain, and is barely slower

Quite an interesting and somewhat awkward looking bird. =/

That's the kind of jet that our Philippine Air Force would need, but , due to the pandemic that's just gonna remain as wishful thinking.

More of a manned long endurance drone, it will die if it meets another jet fighter

Drone.

The Yak 130 and BAE Hawk are better proven alternatives. Countries will see the twin engine design as more expensive maintenance heavy.

Looks like a modified su-25.

the should probably market these to African countries and other third world countries..Botswana,is in the process of buying 13 Saab Jas39 grippens for $1.2billion..they could get 60 of these .LOL

I’d point and laugh at the thing if I saw that heading towards me.

Or you could use a drone.

Donate 1200 of these to afghan airforce and watch the world change for the better