[Squantos]

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......

[Hulka]

Interesting but the A-10 30mm can penetrate an inch and a half of armor out to 8,000’, whereas the 20mm needs to close to 2,000’ to get the same capability. And for soft targets, the A-10 can whack accurately out to 12,000’ or more. Far beyond any effective range of the 20mm.

The A-10 can be loaded with rockets and GBUs/LGBs/JDAM, and can also fie the AGM-65. . .so no need for the shorter range hellfire.

[mabarker1]

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.

I can see You trying to figure out a way to make all of that fit into an IWB Holster- just in case;)