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Several children were among at least 32 people killed and over 50 injured on Monday night when junta paragliders bombed a peaceful candlelight vigil in Sagaing Region’s Chaung-U Township.

    • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Light aircraft. Yep. We are back to ww1 aviation on the battlefield in 2025. :/

      • RandAlThor@lemmy.caOPM
        2·
        5 months ago

        So I’ve noticed that in Southeast Asia they were still using propeller aircraft for jungle and mountain guerilla warfare until maybe 10 years ago despite having jets in their airforces. I think jets might fly too fast to find the guerillas in the jungle canopy and helicopters might fly too low and be in the range of guerilla guns I think? Myanmar Junta has lost a lot of helicopters the last 4 years to guerillas who have little more than home-made guns. When they use jets for bombing they typically use the smallest slowest jets. Props and paragliders are way cheaper, and might have higher payloads than drones.

        • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          This is why the brazilian Super Tucano is popular for drug interdiction in Latam.

          • RandAlThor@lemmy.caOPM
            2·
            5 months ago

            Good point! I didn’t know these existed. It’s a relatively new propeller aircraft and looks like one of the WW2 fighters. In use in many countries including Philippines.

        • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          5 months ago

          IIRC, some designs for prop planes have a near-zero takeoff distance in the right conditions. If they’re not springing for true VTOL jets, a good pilot with a prop plane could drastically decrease runway length requirements.