WarHog vs a Hedgehog
Mar 11, 2018 16:50:15 #
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Mar 12, 2018 11:44:02 #
Mar 12, 2018 12:23:48 #
Sad that the Air Force wants to get rid of them. Greatest ground attack aircraft ever made.
Ron
Ron
Mar 12, 2018 12:51:22 #
Mar 12, 2018 13:19:32 #
Brilliant plane I remember a couple of these coming and visiting an air show at Duxford in the UK. At the time there had been a disaster at an air show previously, the rules were changed and aircraft were told not to fly toward the spectators. These two were not told and headed straight for the crowd at near enough zero feet. Just fantastic performance. The one thing that amazed me was how silent they were until they had passed overhead.
Mar 12, 2018 14:36:31 #
Beard43 wrote:
Sad that the Air Force wants to get rid of them. Greatest ground attack aircraft ever made.
Ron
Ron
Actually obama wanted it gone and was in the process of seeing to it that the funding for spares would dry up. The AF has always wanted to keep this bird. Since the 1976 when it came on-line to pickup where the A1E Skyraiders left off it has been one of my favourites to load for missions. A particularly lethal round was the 30mm depleted uranium tank killer.
Mar 12, 2018 16:32:38 #
Mar 12, 2018 17:47:38 #
Being a private pilot the WartHog is probably the one war bird that I could probably learn to fly easily at least around the pattern a few times. Dang I want to do that. Love the A-10.
Mar 12, 2018 18:14:05 #
It is a great close air support bird IF it is in a non-lethal environment. Pakistan and Afghanistan were non-lethal in that there were no surface to air threats to worry about. It would last for part of one mission in a highly defended local. As long as it is used selectively it is a great CAS airplane and the 30mm is awesome. When I was flying the A-7D here in Tucson for the Air National Guard out of Tucson International Airport, the AF was (and still is) flying the A-10 out of Davis Monthan AFB a few miles away and we used to rag the Warthog pilots about the fact they were flying the only jet attack plane that was so slow it had to worry about birdstrikes from the rear. Fighter pilots have a weird sense of humor.
Mar 12, 2018 19:49:51 #
The first scene with the takeoff and the camera looking down the barrel(s) of that 30mm says it all!
Mar 13, 2018 11:22:24 #
14kphotog wrote:
Love the B-52s also. Great platform and deadly.
Have some experience with the BUFF too. Conventional weapons and munitions (Thailand-1969) and Nuclear (Westover AFB and Barksdale AFB) The present day BUFF pilots are the Grandsons of the original Pilots. That kind of longevity is a wonder.
Mar 13, 2018 12:34:03 #
Paladin48 wrote:
Have some experience with the BUFF too. Conventional weapons and munitions (Thailand-1969) and Nuclear (Westover AFB and Barksdale AFB) The present day BUFF pilots are the Grandsons of the original Pilots. That kind of longevity is a wonder.
Some weapons are just too good to retire; the Browning 50 cal (M2) is another example.
Mar 13, 2018 22:41:58 #
The best CAS airplane ever built. If CAS is the question, the F-35 is the wrong answer. Long live the Warthog!
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