Posted by wisbaker on April 01, 2014 at 15:33:25 from (173.30.33.15):
In Reply to: OT: Sorties posted by Greg1959 on April 01, 2014 at 13:55:11:
Didn't think A-10s went A2A. The Air Force wants to get rid of that bird because it's not shiny enough for them. They want the air to air stuff and let the other services duke it out over the air to ground mission. They claim the new multi-role fighters have better capability to engage ground targets but I don't believe them and I can't see how their multi-role birds are as hard. I haven't seen an armament chart or T.O for the new birds but I suspect most of their air to ground capability is smart or enhanced weapons. The 30MM cannon on the A-10 was unique and was a relatively cheap way to inflict damage on hardened ground targets. The slow speed gave it greater loiter over the target, but it was hard enough to resist most ground stuff. And having that thing hovering around shototing stuff at will was unsettling to the enemy. I was Air Force, one of my Cousins was Army and served on a M-1 crew, we ran into each other about a year before Desert Shield/Storm and he was bragging how his tank was so bad-@ss and could take out anything in the sky. When we met again after the gulf war he admitted the A-10 scared the heck out of him, if they found you it didn't matter what kind of tank you were in you were gone if that's what they wanted. I was impressed with the A-10 but never got to work them, the only tactical aircraft I was assigned to were F-16s,F-15s, F104s (foreign duty assignment) and some BAC tornadoes but with those Birds we were around more to help the Brits and the RSAF, wouldn't go lead or hands on unless there was a pretty big goof up.
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