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I don't give a damn what anyone says, that's one of the most beautiful planes ever made.
http://warthognews.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickriver.com/search/a-10+warthog/
Clearly the coolest aircraft flown by any branch.
Agreed.
So are they still being used or what? I know they were supposed to be mothballed, but a few were brought back for Iraq/Afghanistan…
Yes there are quite a number in service and are beinf upgrades alot.
According to Wikipedia the A-10 is going to be flying until 2030. And it makes sense….it's the most useful ground attack plane we've got, with a long loiter time, high resistance to battle damage, and it can fly slow enough to hit a target accurately.
That's a great picture, wonder if they're still strafing friendlies on a dialy basis
That was just Nasiriyah, wasn't it?
There's a time and a place for strafing, and I imagine Afghanistan is not likely to have many times and places for strafing. An Apache or Spectre/Spooky might be somewhat more precise…
The Marines probably had the right idea with their modular C-130. If only the Army could regain control of their close air support, to include A-10's, Spectre/Spooky-esque aircraft and the like…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eD_Lo61rAw
Also staring tom hanks apparently.
They are doing it often accually. Its just like most things people only pay attention to it when it suits there ideological view and/or ratting wishes.
The A-10 is definitely one of the most beautiful, and most importantly, effective attack aircraft in the world. I'm just curious, how come the US didn't market this weapons platform to other countries like Israel, South Korea, UK?
I could have sworn that the South Koreans flew them, but the Internet says I'm wrong. Would have made perfect sense, considering the number of tanks they'd have to deal with if Kim Jong Ill went over the border..
We wanted to keep them all to ourselves. hehe…
Yea accually your right. When a attack aircraft is so good at destroying tanks and other ground targets you realy dont want anyone else to have it.
Yet we sell Apaches, F15s, Abrams, you name it, to basically anyone.
Oh, you're the country that the world's most wanted terrorist originated from? Here's some F15's.
Yes, the A-10 is a sweet aircraft, but I still love my F-14 Tomcat most of all. And yes I'm ex-navy and an old Airedale, specifically working with the Tomcat, VF-32.
There will never be another missile like the Phoenix.
Can somebody tell me why they scrapped the Phoenix? Does the AMRAAM have a longer range? If not, then why not slap a dozen phoenix missiles on an airship and you have a cheap, mobile, air dominance platform that can loiter for days.
Pretty sure it was the demise of the former Soviet Navy. Phoenix was tailor made to defend the fleet from long range bomber/missile attacks, at a long enough range that we could take them out before they swarmed us with their cruise missiles. With that threat gone, the Phoenix was kind of a solution looking for a problem.
I could be totally wrong though.
The f-14 was the only airframe that could fire them. They where built for the f-14 as much as the f-14 was built for them. These things are HUGE, and the smaller f-18s couldn't launch them (And I suspect could not have carried many). With smaller long range systems online, and ship launched long range anti-air and anti-missile systems and the lack of worry about bomber fleets they just didn't carry them over into the larger super-hornets.
I believe they referred to Phoenix missiles as "launching a telephone pole". Huge missile.
There was some talk about putting the Phoenix on the F-111 which never happened.
Yeah, but the Phoenix was retired before the Tomcat.
I'm pretty sure that in the late 70s the Phoenix was running @1mil per copy w/a 110 mi. range.
read (deale brown's)books -old dog-others and you will understand
Amen. We have had a very loose definition of "ally" in our fight with the terrorists…..