RUTAN’S ARES EMERGES FROM PAUL ALLEN’S HANGAR AT KBFI?
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Said another [Marine]: "Just make sure the A-10 confirms your location before he goes hot. If not, your life expectancy goes from about 80 percent to like 40."
The only thing that can bring down an A-10 is the Pentagon.
They are suck kick-a$$ planes. Love ‘em!
Isis savages mess their pants when they see a warthog make a turn straight in their direction before letting loose with their Gatling gun. Heavily armed with its pilot in a titanium bathtub type cockpit is the perfect vermin eradication platform on that type battlefield. Probably why Zer0 wants it to be eliminated.
It's an effective weapon system. So kill it.
The Secretary (Administrative Assistant?) of the Air Force says we don’t need the A-10 because we have F-15s and F-16s. I wonder if she has a clue what the A and the F stand for.
Why does the AF want to retire it and which aircraft will replace it?
Maybe it’s time to lift the ‘fixed wing aircraft’ prohibition on the Army. It’s my understanding a lot of senior officers there would love to have the A-10 under their command.
and probably 80 to 90% of the damage inflicted. That's the other thing that fools like the Secretary of the Air Force never mention - when you are shooting at people and small vehicles, there is no substitute for low and slow for accuracy.
so its been the one bombing Assad and letting ISIS go nuts.. Thanks Allahu Snackbarbama
“The A-10 is a heavily armored aircraft that is slower and less maneuverable…”
Slower, yes.
Less maneuverable, absolutely not true.
It is vastly more maneuverable than any other fixed wing combat aircraft I can think of.
I love the A-10 but the AF does not. I retired from the AF 14 years ago and they were trying to get rid of it when I went in. A-10 is slow and ugly, cheap, not likely to attract girls or high paying jobs. We (AF) wanted to give them to the US Army in the early 80’s but Congress and the law wouldn’t allow it. Of course it’s pilots and maintainers and people who occasionally need effective CAS love the A-10. I wish we could build a new one but if we tried it would become an F-35 along the way.
I was stationed at Myrtle Beach at the time. It was nice to be able to sleep at night without the rumble of the A-7s, that the A-10s replaced, during night sorties. We also got some awesome airshows to display some of the capabilities - the A-7s were rocket-powered rocks and the A-10s were beauthy in motion - I can still see it gliding down the runway, seemingly too slow to do anything, and having the landing gear run up leaving the plane seemingly hovering over the runway at an impossibly slow pace - then a sudden burst and a turning hard climb that just looked impossible. Then the maneuvers began - twisting and diving and climbing until you lost track of where it was going - it seemed as if it was moving away from you and suddenly it was bigger than life and right on you. One could pound a foxhole and by the time any survivors could raise their heads for a peek, it would be coming back from the other direction. A round from the cannon hitting/going through a tank would leave clothing full of ground meat instead of enemy combatants.
The A-10 coming to Myrtle Beach remains one of my fondest memories of a 24 year career.
Pure, unadulterated BS...