Posted on 08/18/2004 1:29:52 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
LOL!
you are correct, sir.
800 ambushers? Is that a typo? That's batallion strength, even if they're puppetheads.
The next greatest generation. Thank you (and your wife). (^:
Oops! Battalion...
Captain, don't forget:
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"
Now that is job epitome!
The Warthog is one of my favorite aircraft. One tough, son-of-a-b!tch tank killer! I hope we keep it around as long we have with the B-52.
Beautiful! Simply beautiful! Thanks...
Thanks for the new backround. When I was in the Army, and we first got the first stingers, we got to go to the range and as the A-10 shot up an old truck, we would practice tracking it with the stinger. Good times.
F-16 in place of a Hog would be a big mistake. The hog was designed from the cannon out to be a close air support for infantry. It is slow and TOUGH. It has a titanium tub for the hog driver, twin outboard engines, self sealing tanks that can take a 20mm round, and other survivability features. The F-16 is made to kill fast things in the air, and get away from other fast things in the air.
Cool A-10 can I steal that?
Bump!
Yep... the only plane in the inventory that has to worry about taking bird strikes from the rear. :)
I picked these pics & graphics up at globalsecurity.org. You can link to just about any kind of weapon system there, with a ton of info and lots of cool pics. Well worth a look.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/index.html
All that you said is true. But the AF has tried to kill it, at the very least move them all to the NG, several times.
My interpretation of this is political. The AF tries to move the A10 out of active service so that when things get political, the AF uses its political capital to get more procurement, the army has to use its political capital to try to get the AF to keep the A10. The army has never done well in procurement fights at the capital, but since the end of the cold war has done especially badly.
Shortly after the USAAF (that first A being Army) became the USAF, they forgot that the whole point of winning the battle in the air was to help win the battle on the ground.
Thanks for the link. Now if I can just get smart enough to post those pictures here.
To pick up the URL of a pic to post, move your mouse over the pic. Right click to show proterties and copy the URL by highlighting it and clicking CTRL and the letter C at the same time.
Then type in the following, minus the quotes, and delete the space right after the carat (<) and before the img: "< img src=(click CTRL V at this point)>"
Also, the paraentheses are unnecessary. It has to be done right , and any deviation with get you a posting that looks like.
You want to preview your post, because some sites do not allow hot linking. Also, standard formatting goes away, so you wiill not have paragraphs, unless you use the paragraph coding < p> (minus the space).
Please do not think i am an expert at this, because that is the full extent of my HTML ability. Sandbox can teach you far more than I can, and there are many others with far more ability who are willing to teach you anything you care to learn regarding HTML. Just ask.
Let me know how you do.
A-10 Thunderbolt - "Go Ugly, Early."
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