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training planes that have become combat planes

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here is a short list of training planes that eventually became combat planes, if you know any more, you can add guys.

1-Yak-18(soviet union)

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This big boi here was a soviet trainer aircraft that was famous in socialist countries until the fall of soviet union, during the independence of korea from japan, soviet union donated several of these planes for training purposes, they were eventually converted into light bombers, or night bombers, it is unknown how many of them were shot down, or whether it has ever been used in dogfight
it is said that in Laos the same thing happened, but in Laos there was actually fighting between T-28 trojans and yak-18, in angola it is said that the yak-18 was used as an observer.


2-T-6 Texan

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This famous american boi was initially a figther project, but they decided to maintain as a Trainer, it was the plane best known to American pilots in the second half of the 20th century, and it was sold to allies in the united states, greece, portugal, brazil and the philippines, in addition to many others.
1-War between Ecuador and Peru (1941-1942)
Peru used this plane as a bomber, having been equipped with bombs to destroy ships from the equator and light tanks
2-Israeli Arab War (1948)
Several Texan t-6s were purchased by Syria, for their cheap price, since they did not have money for a fighter, it is said that they were modified with rear machine guns, and carried bombs, they mainly faced the Israeli Aviation S199s, and dropped bombs on medium tanks like the m50 "super sherman" (sherman tanks highly modified by israel) and of course, israel captured several texan t6, which were used in the subsequent wars against egypt

Greek Civil War (1946-1949)
The Greek air force used many Texan t-6s as light bombers against the rebels, they were called "galatas" (the milkman) because they saw in the morning as a milk delivery man, it is said that they were often on suicide missions, because they were very fragile.

Korean War (1950-1953)
During the Korean War these planes were used as a control plane, and denouncing enemy artillery targets, and it is also said that in 1950 the RAF used these planes with bombs in the battle against the bad evil rebels

Finally, these planes saw combat in the Angolan independence wars (used by Portugal) in the Algerian independence wars (used by France) and in the Communist insurgency in the Philippines (used by the Philippine government, which was also one of the last to retire the plane)

3-A-28 trojan

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This american pride was designated to replace his venerable father, the t-6 texan, he saw combat during the vietnam war, being used by south vietnam and by his legendary user, the Royal Laos governament
Laotian-hmong pilots made fame with this plane, using as a powerful ground atack plane, the laotian pilot Lee Lue had more than 5.000 missions in his record, and at least 10 missions a day, this legendary plane also saw combat in congo in 1960 suplied by CIA to the rebels, and in Philiphines, he was used in a coup d'etat in 1989, and against NPA rebels until 1995, when philiphines was the last country to use this old but legendary boi

4-North American NA-16/CAC Wirraway

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During World War II, fearing a possible Japanese invasion, the Australian government had to invest in an aircraft to defend its country, the first model was the CAC Wirraway, a modification of the North American NA-16 training aircraft
The plane has a more symbolic value, because in itself he was not very good, he only had one shot, of a ki-43 (at least better than his brother cac boomerang who never had a shot) but was used extensively for missions. attack on the ground, after the war many of it was kept as training aircraft by australia, it remains a very interesting aircraft for modern simulators

5-Super Tucano

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Okay this boi is not exclusively a training aircraft, but it is used in most countries as a training aircraft
considered by some to be the pride of brazil's air force, the embraer super toucan is a training and ground attack aircraft, also widely used for acrobatics worldwide, considered by some to be the "hot daughter of the p-47" this boy was sold for many Latin American countries and some in Central Asia such as Afghanistan, some operations in which it was used in combat:

1-2007 attack on FARC positions
it is said that in 2007 super toucan airplanes dropped bombs on farc positions that were in its territory, little is known about this because the wars in the Amazon region are not widely publicized, and the plane may have been used in combat before

2-phoenix operation
In 2008 a joint operation, brazil, colombia and ecuador would have used super toucans extensively to attack more farc positions, thereafter the plane was widely used in counterinsurgency operations in south america

The aircraft is also said to have been used by the Philippines to attack NPA positions recently, and by Afghanistan to attack enemy tanks


6-nanchang cj6

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This plane was used a lot by chinese air force as a training aircraft, but now it was replaced by some small jets, this big boi here... well, wikipedia dont say that was used in combat, but... some taiwanese sources in chinese-speaking websites in weibo claim that was used to spy taiwanese islands and also, used against drug cartels in indochina, so, a good counter insurgency plane?
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