The Skyraider was an awesome aircraft, in every aspect of the word. It was huge, and very effective- carried a bigger bomb load than a WWII b-12.
Always wondered if a A10 in addition to its 30mm centerline gun could mount two 20mm gun POD’s on each wing like the F4 used to attach one centerline.....:o)
Short burst from the 30mm along with four 20mm gun pods under the wings would be nothing shy of a flying claymore mine......add some of the 2.5 inch rocket pods and GBU’s and two 8 packs of hellfires and lay waste to enemy on the ground.....surgically.
Watched a TACP operator just devastate about 6 targets using on call CAS that had a flight of A10’s. he sparkled up the targets one after the other and accuracy seemed to minute of 55 gallon drum on all six targets.
It was impressive......
Where the heck did b-12 come from? I was referring to the b-17.