A-10 at work....with music
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Clunckdrive (your #18)
More power to his/her elbow !
Would that someone would cut the flow of cash (from an obligatory £145.50 =
$(Can)296.99 pa per household Licence Fee), which goes to pay the bloated salaries of the BBC Directors, who have the power (but no will) to abate this nuisance.
Danny42C.
...some kind soul recently cut the feed to the speakers...
Would that someone would cut the flow of cash (from an obligatory £145.50 =
$(Can)296.99 pa per household Licence Fee), which goes to pay the bloated salaries of the BBC Directors, who have the power (but no will) to abate this nuisance.
Danny42C.
Last edited by Danny42C; 14th Jan 2016 at 17:57. Reason: Spacing
Danny, on 3 Dec you said
Well, your wish was somebody's command. According to Defense One
Read all about it at http://www.defenseone.com/technology...y-a-10/125105/
Happy new year!
airsound
Obviously a COIN aircraft par excellence, and exactly what I would think is needed in Irak/Syria now.
Air Force to Delay A-10 Retirement, Thanks to ISIS
Happy new year!
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They are built like the proverbial.
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Probably not. It's a pretty simple airplane with no air to air sensors or weapons. It started out a day VFR aircraft with no autopilot, no nav systems, and no precision weapon capability. Over the decades it's morphed into an all weather capable aircraft with GPS aided inertial nav and full precision weapons capability using existing, proven systems and software, including helmet mounted targeting displays. For example, it got the F-16's stick and the F-15's throttle levers for the pilot to interface with the new systems. By comparison, most F-16s like the A-10 are single pilot and F-16 has both an air to air and air to ground capability with sensors and weapons system for both. The A-10 is strictly air to ground. It also flies much slower so there's more time for the pilot to process everything.
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I'm sure today's Sidewinder doesn't even have a seeker head like the original and the tone is generated but ok.
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Alert 5 » The 74th EFS receives Gallant Unit Citation, the first individual squadron to do so - Military Aviation News
The 74th EFS receives Gallant Unit Citation, the first individual squadron to do so
During a six-month period from Jul. 15, 2017 to Jan. 15, 2018, the 74th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS) struck 44 percent of all targets during Operation INHERENT RESOLVE (OIR), with just 12 A-10s. This help the unit earned the Gallant Unit Citation, the fifth to do so and the first from an individual squadron.
The Gallant Unit Citation has only been awarded five times in Air Force history.
The 74th EFS receives Gallant Unit Citation, the first individual squadron to do so
During a six-month period from Jul. 15, 2017 to Jan. 15, 2018, the 74th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS) struck 44 percent of all targets during Operation INHERENT RESOLVE (OIR), with just 12 A-10s. This help the unit earned the Gallant Unit Citation, the fifth to do so and the first from an individual squadron.
The Gallant Unit Citation has only been awarded five times in Air Force history.
Perhaps officially, though I suspect that the stream of rounds coming out of the front of one would be a brown trouser moment for a whole lot of air-2-air specialists.
In fact, never mind tanks, a straffing would do a lot of damage to a ship, bunker, pretty much anything really.
In fact, never mind tanks, a straffing would do a lot of damage to a ship, bunker, pretty much anything really.
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A-10, the only aircraft designed and built around a gun the I'm aware of. Contrast that to its purported replacement, "Oh geez, maybe we do need a gun, let's add one on." Now, if they can only get it to shoot where it is being aimed....