If the USAF hot jocks hated the A-10, imagine the paroxysms of disgust they would feel about this useful beast! Is there a belly gunner ball turret option?
Imagine low-cost, highly effective, easy-to-maintain combat aircraft for close support. These Iluyshin people must be crushed before they upset the entire international arms market. What next, Kamev Helicopters?
Right after Desert Storm, when Barksdale still had a bunch of A-10s, the pilots we knew loved the Wart Hog.
One of our neighbors was in on the “Road of Death shoot em up” during the escape from Kuwait, he said it was the most fun he ever had.