Name in search of a model, idea or whatever...

[GTX]

Hi folks,

No model or even idea here...but I do have a name:  The Douglas Decapitator.  Any ideas on what it should be???

Regards,

Greg

[PanzerWulff]

How about as a vietnam era replacement for the Douglas Skyraider? sort of a super "Sandy" for COIN and helo escort & Support aircraft.Prop driven for maximum low speed low altitude performance and long loiter time,heavy armor for survivabity and serious firepower to keep the bad guys heads down
"Panzer"

[pyro-manic]

Turboprop Skyraider? Or how about an early SEAD aircraft, using a glide bomb with a seeker to home in on Japanese air-search radars? "Decapitate" the IJN fleet defences by destroying their search capability? Maybe based on a modified SBD Dauntless or BTD Destroyer.

[The Rat]

Helicopter with the rotor underneath the fuselage. 

[GTX]

Helicopter with the rotor underneath the fuselage. 

That's what popped into mind for me too .

Keep the ideas coming folks.

Regards,

Greg

[Weaver]

How about it's the Americanised name of an Armstrong-Whitworth Axeman or a Gourdou-Leseurre Guillotine* built under licence by Douglas?




*Whatever the hell they are.....

[upnorth]

It actually sounds very good for a specialized variant of an existing tactical penetrator/strike type.

It could be the codename for one of those height-of-the-Cold-War one way nuclear strikers.

How about a low level modified B-66 Destroyer?

Give it some uprated engines, strengthened wings, top of the line TFR suite and some heavy ECM gear and have them pointed straight East from places like Ramstein and Mildenhall.

Of course the Decapitator would be a very clandestine beast and it's very existence would be denied until well after it was retired in the mid 80s sometime

Instead of an entire aircraft, Decapitator could simply be a modular system easily and quickly bolted into a standard B-66 airframe.

If you can imagine the B-66 being designed as a modular airframe from the begining so things like engines could be easily exchanged and electronic suites simply swapped in and out, it could work.

[Weaver]

Or you could update that to make it an ultra-modern stealthy strike aircraft/UCAV designed to take out key command targets at the start of a war, which is the mission that popularised the term "decapitation". The only problem with that would be the dated "Douglas" name, but how about this: when Boeing took over McDonnell Douglas, the US government insisted that the helicopter arm was sold off to avoid a monopoly, so what if they'd also insisted that McDD's black-projects/UCAV arm be separated too, and that had re-formed under the resurrected "Douglas" name?

[Steel Penguin]

as Weaver / upnorth said,  ultra secret, hypersonic, stealthy, ultra pinpoint designed to be able to take out the most heavily defended /protected sites.  The kind of thing that would give the cold war planners, sweaty nightmares as theyed be certain to the fact that as we had one, the Russian one was better, faster and more unplesant.

[Weaver]

Then again, maybe it was one of a series of 1930s anti-piracy patrol aircraft which, in less politically correct times, were given bloodthirsty names to remind the pirates of the consequences of their actions. Other examples could be:

Armstrong-Whitworth Axeman
Gourdou-Leseurre Guillotine
Hawker Hangman
Curtiss Cruxifier
Fairey Firing Squad

[upnorth]

Then again, maybe it was one of a series of 1930s anti-piracy patrol aircraft which, in less politically correct times, were given bloodthirsty names to remind the pirates of the consequences of their actions. Other examples could be:

Armstrong-Whitworth Axeman
Gourdou-Leseurre Guillotine
Hawker Hangman
Curtiss Cruxifier
Fairey Firing Squad

Gloster Gibbet

Blackburn Bludgeon

[tanktastic43]

Supermarine Sniper?? 

tt43.

[PR19_Kit]

Helicopter with the rotor underneath the fuselage. 

That would be the 'DEFOOTICATOR' then.................? 

[NARSES2]

Well I think it's a name for a 1960/1970's missile with assumed great accuracy to be used for taking out either a General Staff or High Political location ?