Thoughts from an A-10 pilot

Another board | 10/25/2001 | unknown

[Poohbah]

Don't know if it's real or not, but he's got the jargon down, and I was ROTFLAMOPMPASMW!

[null and void]

Pure Poetry...

[ottoisa1]

YEA! HE AGREEES WITH ME....

[Poohbah]

Oh, and I'm sure he wants his McDonalds order in the old styrofoam packaging, just like Denis Leary.

[antienvironmentalist]

Lucky b**tard.... I need me one of those A-10's

[Pokey78]

[SeaDragon]

That was great fun to read.

All of those things work for me too!

[garyhope]

How old are the A-10's? How old is the design? Do we need newer, faster, better, more stealthy, less vulnerable A-10 type planes for close in support and machine killing?

[jackbill]

I think that one of the worst decisions that we've ever made was to stop production of the A-10. With wars like Desert Storm, Kosovo, and now Afghanistan, the A-10 seems the perfect weapon.

The MD Air National Guard has them. Ten years ago, as I sailed around the Chesapeake Bay on weekends, it was exciting to have them run up or down the bay at about 100 feet.

Hog drivers are kool.

[jackbill]

Do we need newer, faster, better, more stealthy, less vulnerable A-10 type planes for close in support and machine killing?

If you mean "stealthy" in terms of radar signature, NO. The A-10 is exactly what we need for close air support, especially in "asymetric warfare".

As far as speed is concerned, too much speed is bad. You've got to be able to see the target.

Back in Korea, when we first had jets doing air-to-ground, we had T-6 prop trainers carrying "observers" and smoke rockets. They'd find the target and hit it with smoke. The jets would come in and shoot at the smoke. Technology is a bit better today, but you've still got to see the target.

[MHGinTN]

Um, didn't sinkEmperor decide to decommission these great weapons?

[mercy]

HOO YAAAAAWWWWWWW

POST OF THE MONTH!!!!!! BRUTHAAAAH!

[Leisler]

The Estwing framing hammer hasn't changed in thirty years. Wheels are best round. The .45 has been around near a hundred. The A-10 was made to attack and destroy massive Soviet armor units, that were defended by radar controlled guns and low altitude SAM's, and then bring the pilot home. Some things just don't get any better.

[Kakaze]

" How old are the A-10's? How old is the design? Do we need newer, faster, better, more stealthy, less vulnerable A-10 type planes for close in support and machine killing? "

Those "pesky old A- 10's!

Once they thought they could replace the A-10 with a modified F-16....no way....the warthog...shoot off a wing knock off the opposite tail .....loose either engine and still fly home in a titanium encased cockpit, sitting on a gattling gun.....This is a weapon a true machine....and also a great airplane!....god love the warthog

[Bill Rice]

Yeah, I thought he did too. Maybe they're gonna bring them back? I read somewhere that they were maybe gonna get a couple SR71's outa moth balls.

[Enlightiator]

This guy may have actually seen a warthog once in his life, but sure as hell ain't no A10 pilot. Fun read though.

[Bill Rice]

"I don't just want to beat the crap outta these scumbags, I want to humiliate them, too."

He forgot about the power of pork!

[B4Ranch]

Oh Osama Bin Laden,

You Son Of A Bitch,
May Your Balls Develop
A seven Year Itch!
May Your Pecker Be Twisted
In Such A Manner,
That Your Asshole Whistles
The Star Spangled Banner.

[finnman69]

Lions and tigers and bombs, oh my!