While the gatling gun was first deployed by the US army (making such a thing an impossibility for the confederacy at any point in the civil war) it wasn’t first deployed until the battle of Petersberg that you mentioned, and the Army didn’t really accept them as a weapon system until after the conclusion of the war.…
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This thing could haul plows through prairie sod and cultivators through wet field mud. It could easily cross wet grass. The advantage of tracks in clearing trenches isn’t due to power as much as geometry and weight distribution.
Post updated: they’re $36,000.
The JSF will not be “the one to rule them all for small countries”, because 1) in a small air space you will pretty soon no longer be in BVR.
I think we are ging to have to put ‘Scandanavian Jet Evaluation’ with the same grain of salt that we take things like ‘Marine Declaration of IOC’, ‘Project Milestone Met’ and ‘Future Cost Estimates’ in regards to the F-35.
Andrew, I mean no offense. I am genuinely curious how you’d explain, to us, or to yourself, why this piece’s title speaks about ‘Scandinavian’, rather than cite Danish. Were you loath of pastry connotations?
I am not an A-10 fanboy though I believe it kicks the tailpipe off any competitor when looking strictly at the AT/CAS/FAC role. I am highly skeptical of the F-35, if only because between strategically lowered expectations, shifted goalposts and fudged tests/metrics for this program, I feel LockMart has traded every…
In terms of weapons though, I’m not sure the US will hold the edge.
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Who exactly are they defending against exactly that requires new aircraft?
About halfway down the Wikipedia article on EMP is a brief, accessible discussion of why this did not much affect the planes involved in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki detonations.
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Could you imagine A-10 Warthogs with a solid state laser being designed for 5th and 6th generation aircraft? The vehicle has more than enough plant and payload to handle it and the generator, and the lasers could vaporize nearly any kind of ordnance that A-10 Warthogs are actually susceptible to.
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The A-10 has been doing missions in high threat situations. It’s currently deployed in Europe, the Middle East, and it’s doing patrols in the pacific theater. Its taken on enemies with manpads or greater and It’s been used in the sead/dead roles because of its capabilities in dealing with ground defenses.
The problem with the F-35 it’s a golden bullet solution being pitched for every conflict.
Yes it will eventually be able to hit all the same targets as a hog, but the A-10 runs about 9k an hour compared to 32k for the F-35. It can carry the same ordinance where the Tucano is far more limited and more vulnerable. Since…
A plane relying purely on AGM’s and guided bombs will never be as good or better than the A10 in a CAS role, a plane not designed to operate at low speeds will never be as good or better in a CAS role, a plane where the pilot can’t turn his head because of the bulky helmet will never be as good or better than the A10…