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.
Real world tactics, from second week of GW I: SAMs and anything radiating were all killed by Day Four. Circle "kill boxes" in pairs at 15-20K altitude. Spot prey. Fake dive to 8K'. Target crews see what's coming, halt, unass vehicles running to four corners of compass. Circle around, and chew up deserted halted column at leisure. Radio ground forces to look for unarmed dismounts waving underwear looking to surrender.
Fin Flash: EL - England AFB (Alexandria), LA (23rd TFW): Closed (BRAC'd) 1992
Forward Pylon: AAS-35 Pave Penny
STA 1: ALQ-184 STA 2: CBU-87 STA 3: TGM-65A (on LAU-117) STA 4: MK-82 (x3) (on TER-9) STA 5: EMPTY STA 6: EMPTY STA 7: EMPTY STA 8: MK-82 (x3) (on TER-9) STA 9: TGM-65A (on LAU-117) STA 10: CBU-87 STA 11: CATM-9L/M (x2) (on LAU-105 and DRA)
Love the split flaps painted red on the inside. Brakes!
The original concept was vertical dives to hit the top of tanks where the armor is weakest. They were talking vertical dives in formation, Stuka tactics, but the aircraft was just starting to come off the assembly line when the shoulder fired IR missile was invented. Oops! Became a low level killer or…anything
Probably the only aircraft where they built the weapon first and said "build us an airplane to carry it". Stealth didn't exist, even as a concept, when the A-10 flew for the first time in 1972. The first research funding for a stealthy aircraft was granted three years later. Al_in_Ottawa
Yup, the prototype flew in May '72 and was tested and flown in a competition against the Northrop entry in early '73. Then politics happened and it took two years for the money to be found to build them. The first operational squadron was formed in '76. With the re-wing program and the avionics upgrades it might match the B52 for longevity, except the B52 is getting new engines and other upgrades this year. Al_in_Ottawa
It’s a Rc model. No one’s driving, there’s no pitot tube, the ADF “pie plate” antenna in the gun scoop isn’t there, the outboard pylons aren’t shaped right; (they hold the actuators for the ailerons).The bits at the inboard ends of the horizontal stabs are the model’s elevator actuators and the one’s outboard of stations 1 & 11 are the aileron actuators. Those don’t exist on the real deal. The APU exhaust trail wouldnt be there, it’d be on the left engine lower cowl door. There was a mod that put an eyelid over the exhaust to keep it from sooting up the lower engine cowl. The APU was very rarely used in flight and only then if you lost both generators. Bunch of antennas missing, shaped wrong or not in the correct spots…the lower UHF, for example, should be on the gun scoop for 77 and earlier models and just under the ladder bay on 78’s and later. (I found that out after snapping one off with my forehead in 1983.) Never saw one with red speedbrake panels in 18 years of crew chiefing them at 7 different bases. The prototype and really early ones had that I believe. It’s a damn good model tho. I had to look at it awhile…something was just “off”….
Nice. - Nemo
ReplyDeleteI like the Sidewinders.
ReplyDeleteThe A10 is so ugly that it's beautiful.....
ReplyDeleteDressed the way God intended.
ReplyDeleteToo bad that A10 and the rest of the squadron isn't headed to the southern border.
ReplyDeleteFirst time I have ever seen an A10 in woodland camo.
ReplyDeleteHeads up, the Welcome Wagon is on the way.
ReplyDelete- WDS
It can pack all that different ordinance because stealthy is the last thing on its list.
ReplyDeletethey are supposed to come in low so stealth isnt that important. by the time you see it your already dead.
DeleteReal world tactics, from second week of GW I:
DeleteSAMs and anything radiating were all killed by Day Four.
Circle "kill boxes" in pairs at 15-20K altitude.
Spot prey.
Fake dive to 8K'. Target crews see what's coming, halt, unass vehicles running to four corners of compass.
Circle around, and chew up deserted halted column at leisure.
Radio ground forces to look for unarmed dismounts waving underwear looking to surrender.
Old pic.
ReplyDeleteI saw that photo in the dictionary of phrases. It illustrated the phrase "world of hurt."
ReplyDeleteFin Flash: EL - England AFB (Alexandria), LA (23rd TFW): Closed (BRAC'd) 1992
ReplyDeleteForward Pylon: AAS-35 Pave Penny
STA 1: ALQ-184
STA 2: CBU-87
STA 3: TGM-65A (on LAU-117)
STA 4: MK-82 (x3) (on TER-9)
STA 5: EMPTY
STA 6: EMPTY
STA 7: EMPTY
STA 8: MK-82 (x3) (on TER-9)
STA 9: TGM-65A (on LAU-117)
STA 10: CBU-87
STA 11: CATM-9L/M (x2) (on LAU-105 and DRA)
Yep, -184, worked on them and loaded. Also the 'buck 19' and -131.
DeleteEL is Ellsworth AFB.
DeleteLove the split flaps painted red on the inside. Brakes!
ReplyDeleteThe original concept was vertical dives to hit the top of tanks where the armor is weakest. They were talking vertical dives in formation, Stuka tactics, but the aircraft was just starting to come off the assembly line when the shoulder fired IR missile was invented. Oops!
Became a low level killer or…anything
ReplyDeleteProbably the only aircraft where they built the weapon first and said "build us an airplane to carry it".
Stealth didn't exist, even as a concept, when the A-10 flew for the first time in 1972. The first research funding for a stealthy aircraft was granted three years later.
Al_in_Ottawa
1972?
ReplyDeleteYup, the prototype flew in May '72 and was tested and flown in a competition against the Northrop entry in early '73. Then politics happened and it took two years for the money to be found to build them. The first operational squadron was formed in '76. With the re-wing program and the avionics upgrades it might match the B52 for longevity, except the B52 is getting new engines and other upgrades this year.
DeleteAl_in_Ottawa
It’s a Rc model. No one’s driving, there’s no pitot tube, the ADF “pie plate” antenna in the gun scoop isn’t there, the outboard pylons aren’t shaped right; (they hold the actuators for the ailerons).The bits at the inboard ends of the horizontal stabs are the model’s elevator actuators and the one’s outboard of stations 1 & 11 are the aileron actuators. Those don’t exist on the real deal. The APU exhaust trail wouldnt be there, it’d be on the left engine lower cowl door. There was a mod that put an eyelid over the exhaust to keep it from sooting up the lower engine cowl. The APU was very rarely used in flight and only then if you lost both generators. Bunch of antennas missing, shaped wrong or not in the correct spots…the lower UHF, for example, should be on the gun scoop for 77 and earlier models and just under the ladder bay on 78’s and later. (I found that out after snapping one off with my forehead in 1983.) Never saw one with red speedbrake panels in 18 years of crew chiefing them at 7 different bases. The prototype and really early ones had that I believe. It’s a damn good model tho. I had to look at it awhile…something was just “off”….
ReplyDeleteI figured that out by spotting the panhead Phillips screws mounting the actuaters.
DeleteBeautiful...
ReplyDelete