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.

Danny, on 3 Dec you said
Well, your wish was somebody's command. According to Defense OneRead all about it at http://www.defenseone.com/technology...y-a-10/125105/

Happy new year!

airsound

airsound,

Great Minds Think Alike !

Danny.

Thanks for that ORAC, good video. The monocle must help a lot with the workload.

USAF Captain rank.

Yes that was Capt K Campbell 'Killer Chick’.

They are built like the proverbial.

Watching that I can't understand why USAF has a pilot-retention problem. Just send me the forms (well as long as you allow non-yanks and over 50s lol)

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.

On the other hand you are operating many more radios in a hostile rich environment in close proximity to the ground.

Same here!

Must have some sort of air to air kit as they usually pack 2 Sidewinders on the left wing.

Sidewinder seeker heads are passive, no need for any 'air to air kit' other than the necessary wiring and the switchology in the cockpit, lock-on is confirmed by a tone in the pilot's headset...

-RP

I'm pretty sure a modern manpads will mess up their strafing runs. They're fine in the ME, but may not be survivable in a peer battlespace.

I don't actually know much about the Sidewinder development but the tone was a genius idea. Much easier to integrate into the cockpit. I'm guessing the tone is an almost direct feed from the seeker head circuit.

I'm sure today's Sidewinder doesn't even have a seeker head like the original and the tone is generated but ok.

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.

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....