Discuss A10 Thunderbolt in Tanks, planes & ships on The Army Rumour Service; Originally Posted by Biscuits_Brown
And showing that this is a Walter Mitty comment - Clancy's Soviets in Red Storm Rising had it dubbed the Devil's Cross. Wonder if it was pure invention?
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It gets a fair bit of print in various Harold Coyle books!
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A wing of them would have looked magnificent overflying the olympics for fear of self igniting numpties and it would have annoyed the BAE enclosure. Originally Posted by roadster280 That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
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Absolutely agree. But we have none. And won't have any.
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More's the pity
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If we ever trial them, perhaps it would be possible to get the version without the death metal soundtrack.
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I loved them since they used to bounce around scarborough and my school while playing with the staxton wold radar, I doubt they would allow it nowadays.
I allways thought we could have done with a handfull. especially in 82 but not sure how we could have got them there.
if the the airframes are knackered then why not stick them on the water like a modern eboat type of thing, sail them around the gulf to scare the crap out of the iranian navy
what the world needs is an enema, make that two - just to give it a sense of purpose.
US electoral democracy is just a structured system of legalised bribery.
a senior Chinese officer has said, “all the great nations in the world own aircraft carriers – they are symbols of a great nation”. That’s why China has just commissioned its first. By the same token, to opt for a “carrier gap” of some years is to abandon your responsibilities.
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Well it they had gone for the Northrop YA 9 they would have these:
Which looks very similar to:
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And it can take more than the average amount of damage as well.......
Gulf War 2 Battle Damaged A-10
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not as much as
a different plane
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- 18-08-2012, 20:52 #70Double irony is that they don't just drop bombs or cannon shells on gollies. They drop them on cretins like me as well. Originally Posted by Drlligaf
I was so annoyed about being brassed up near Kandahar that I went to interview the pilot. Nice bloke as it goes. He was very young and imagined opening a kayaking school for floods of tourists in the mountains north of Kabul / Charikar after the war woz won.
He spent most of his flying hours doing Warthog air displays over Kabul whenever Khazi's personal air chariot set off to bring the Great Helmsman to international conferences.
He's probably been replaced by a drone now.
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