How many Soviet SAM sites were bases in West Germany?

Wait wait wait... can it fly missing 1 and a half wing or just half a wing? This morning someone claimed it was 2/3 of a wing. Does the A-10 even NEED wings to fly?

B-52s haven’t been flying low level combat pulling 3-4Gs with combat loads for the past 14 years. Nor have they been deployed to hot spots all over the…

If the Pentagon acted on the advice of every blogger who had an opinion on these matters, we’d all end up with a bunch of B-52s powered by outboard motors.

Your loss.

F-4 was adopted by the USAF in the 1960s, they came to be one of the biggest users of the type, improving it by giving it an internal gun, flown by the Thunderbirds and later adopting it into a SEAD platform that served for nearly until 1996 and you claim that the USAF couldn’t wait to kill it for 36 years???

Then why didn’t the Marines, NATO, Israel, South Korea, etc. never buy the A-10 in the first place? Fairchild marketed the A-10 overseas, but it never got any export orders.

The A-10 was designed to fill a role in Europe in the 1970s - stop a Soviet tank invasion head on. The US Army had AH-1 and M60 MBTs and a…

Why do you need a GAU-8 to kill a guy in a Toyota Hilux? But if you want a big gun (and lets be honest, who doesn’t?) we’ve got ya covered...

I’m well aware of the A-16 and the YA-7F; they were both part of the program to explore a possible A-10 replacement. Along with the gun pod, the A-16 had a fuselage mounted IR sensor called FalconEye that gave it some impressive night vision. The gun pod was a dud (NY ANG tried them out in the opening of Desert Storm…

What’s the loiter time of an intercontinental B-1B?

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Nope. No agenda there.

It cites an op-ed...which is basically a letter to the editor...about a USAF general - widely known for his gusto - who has been barred by the USAF from conducting business with the government because he used his influence to keep a dying…

A battery of Tor M1s would tear the shit out of any A-10 flight. Look into the S300 and S400 series; the later models are nightmare fuel.

We’ve been involved in 3 major counter-insurgencies in the past 50 years - two of which the A-10 participated in - Vietnam, Post-invasion Iraq 2003, and Afghanistan.

The Taliban is still a major political player in Afghanistan and Iraq is a mess with ISIL taking over portions of the country. The A-10 did not shift the…

I was just a boy when the infidels came to my village in their Blackhawk helicopters...

No, that’s an F-15E in the first pic, a B-1B in the second pic. Neither of them were even in service during Vietnam.

He was captured almost immediately by ISIL (they control huge areas of Syria). They burned him alive in a cage and recorded it on video as a propaganda tool. Oh, and they did that while talking to either the Jordanian government or his family about a ransom for his release.

After that, word came down from on high:…

Are you talking about RF-AK last year? Because BOTH of those happened during that. My favorite was when the Viper guys brought up SEAD, the Hog drivers were all “Oh no, we don’t need SEAD support, we’ll manage CSAR!” The AK ANG guys were all “Uh, wut?” and how many A-10s were shot down? Nine? yeah, you go in to get…

DU rounds are good for one thing and one thing only - killing tanks. For soft targets, HE rounds (that have no uranium in them) are actually more effective.

Given the proliferation of PGMs, if DU rounds go away tomorrow, I won’t shed a tear. They should have been phased out after the first Gulf War.

Right up until it either:

then you will need pilots who fly low and slow

No worries. BTW, the 35 has NOT been 30+ years in the making. Where’d you read that?