And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Warthogs are fearsome aircraft to enemy ground personnel and tanks. It is indeed amazing they were able to wrap an aircraft around that and actually make it fly.
I still remember seeing one fire on a tank range in west germany back in the late 1970's we fell in love with it ! it not often you see dusting coming out from BELOW the tank after 3 or more passes on the range, the targets out there no longer looked like tanks as a former grunt. we just loved the idea of it on call if need be. and they want to get rid of it too. they never saw one tear up a range before or in GW1 a row of tanks and trucks. if they did, they would want more of them.
The A-10 was considered old technology where there were more Air Guard squadrons than active duty back in 1990. The active duty pilots resented the fact Air Guard A-10 pilots had a higher kill ratio than active duty A-10 pilots and much higher kill ratio than any other flying platform during Desert Storm.
Just moved out of Tucson after living there for many years. Years ago, particularly in 2001, most days you would at least hear Warthogs flying around Davis-Monthan. I don’t know where they practiced gunnery (maybe over by Yuma?), but they seem fierce just flying at altitude. I would hate to see one low and angry.
The Warthog is the embodiment of "form follows function!"...it was originally designed and built to counter the expected flood of soviet tanks which were going to come through the Fulda gap...thankfully, it was never needed for that, but it has sure proven itself over and over again...I love me the BRRRRRRRAP...!
odd factoid for you...gau-8 and m-61 cannons have close to the same rate of fire, and projectile speed at the muzzle that is almost identical. at four thousand feet range, the gau-8 projectile is much faster and retains much more energy than the twenty mm round does. which is why the thirty mm is prefered for plinking armor and revetments.
The GAU-8 Avenger.....the gun was built then they designed the plane around it.
ReplyDeleteSo you want a really serious ground support aircraft? No sweat G.I......
ReplyDeleteMy friend's father was involved in the design. He had one of the barrels in his basement back when we were kids. It was quite impressive.
ReplyDeleteWarthogs are fearsome aircraft to enemy ground personnel and tanks. It is indeed amazing they were able to wrap an aircraft around that and actually make it fly.
ReplyDeleteEngineers: “How pretty do you want the plane?”
DeleteEngineers, how 'bout we make it a flying tank.
DeleteI still remember seeing one fire on a tank range in west germany back in the late 1970's
ReplyDeletewe fell in love with it ! it not often you see dusting coming out from BELOW the tank
after 3 or more passes on the range, the targets out there no longer looked like tanks
as a former grunt. we just loved the idea of it on call if need be.
and they want to get rid of it too. they never saw one tear up a range before
or in GW1 a row of tanks and trucks. if they did, they would want more of them.
And yet, the Air Force did all that it could to kill the Warthog program.
ReplyDeleteThe A-10 was considered old technology where there were more Air Guard squadrons than active duty back in 1990. The active duty pilots resented the fact Air Guard A-10 pilots had a higher kill ratio than active duty A-10 pilots and much higher kill ratio than any other flying platform during Desert Storm.
DeleteJust moved out of Tucson after living there for many years. Years ago, particularly in 2001, most days you would at least hear Warthogs flying around Davis-Monthan. I don’t know where they practiced gunnery (maybe over by Yuma?), but they seem fierce just flying at altitude. I would hate to see one low and angry.
ReplyDeleteThe gunnery range was on the north side of Sierra Vista, just east of Fort Huachuca.
DeleteThe Warthog is the embodiment of "form follows function!"...it was originally designed and built to counter the expected flood of soviet tanks which were going to come through the Fulda gap...thankfully, it was never needed for that, but it has sure proven itself over and over again...I love me the BRRRRRRRAP...!
ReplyDelete"the expected flood of soviet tanks which were going to come through the Fulda gap...thankfully, it was never needed for that, "
DeleteWith the way Putin is saber-rattling Russian tanks going through the Fulda gap may not be that remote a possibility.
Saw the A-10 demo team do live fire at Cannon Range at Fort Leonard Wood. VERY impressive...!!
ReplyDeleteodd factoid for you...gau-8 and m-61 cannons have close to the same rate of fire, and projectile speed at the muzzle that is almost identical. at four thousand feet range, the gau-8 projectile is much faster and retains much more energy than the twenty mm round does. which is why the thirty mm is prefered for plinking armor and revetments.
ReplyDeleteMomentum and energy are significant.
DeleteLoaded those for 2 years, quite a hydraulic bath when they break
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