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It's kind of a dead end topic, but it's something that popped into my head: the South African Air Force always seemed to have a fairly low quantity of all it's aircraft. But one thing it did have, between C-47s and (were they Transalls or C-130s?) was transport.

So why, when they were fighting a guerilla war when tactical air support was a premium, didn't they ever modify some of their Dakotas into gunships? It didn't seem to be something that expensive. The USAF was doing it in Vietnam with...what? A quad-.50 and some sort of aircraft cannon? Obviously Denel or someone could do that. They were inventive folks.

Was it an air superiority thing?
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