Warthog Love!

[Hitman]

Just thought I'd share some love for ONE of the CAS Masters!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II

HUGE IN FLIGHT PICTURE!

Close up of the A-10's 30 mm GAU-8 Avenger cannon

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YohOvctx_vE[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mADf0EntME[/ame]

 

[themcfarland]

they are surprisingly quiet too, and nimble.. till the guns go off..

 

[Hitman]

till the guns go off..

Which in itself is very unique as well.


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z9CyVoTZ7E[/ame]


This is the best POV experience right here. Hearing the sound AFTER seeing the impact.
It proves just how far away they can fire.

The cannon takes about half a second to come up to speed, so 50 rounds are fired during the first second, 65 or 70 rounds per second thereafter. The gun is precise; it can place 80% of its shots within a 40-foot (12.4 m) circle from 4,000 feet (1,220 m) while in flight. The GAU-8 is optimized for a slant range of 4,000 feet (1,220 m) with the A-10 in a 30 degree dive

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ-pdvirHDQ[/ame]

 

[whbonney26]

The A10 has and will always be my fav. What a beast. Their record in the skies are awesome and while they may not have the speed of some of the other jets they are built like tanks and are rarely ever knocked out of the skies. The firepower is awesome also.

 

[lost]

Which in itself is very unique as well.

Love listening to them on the range.

 

[IfItFliesItDies]

30 mike mike = pain

 

[Sin-ster]

I go to the Saints game in Tampa every year, and they always do some type of fly over (thanks to MacDill AFB). Two or three seasons ago, it was five A-10's flying so low they looked like they would skim the scoreboard.

I was jumping up and down and screaming so much, the entire section thought I was insane. And I giggled like a school girl for a full half of football.

Last year, it was a C130.

 

[RyanW]

If you've never heard one in action, you're missing out on the finer things in life.

 

[Dave328]

That's God unzipping and pissing depleted uranium down onto Abdulla Kamalphucqer's turban!

 

[radney]

And to think the Chair Force has been trying to get rid of them for years. I remember them flying overhead virtually every night in Afghanistan and they never, ever came back with any ordnance - must have been fun times for a lot of those pilots!

 

[W1nds0rF0x]

Which in itself is very unique as well.
This is the best POV experience right here. Hearing the sound AFTER seeing the impact.
It proves just how far away they can fire.

LOL have you ever played Battlefield 1942 with the Iraqi war mod?

 

[Hitman]

LOL have you ever played Battlefield 1942 with the Iraqi war mod?

Nope

 

[W1nds0rF0x]

The gun sounds exactly like that video.

 

[headshot]

If you've never heard one in action, you're missing out on the finer things in life.

How would a civilian go about doing this?

 

[RyanW]

Typically, a civilian just has to go to an air show on a marine corps air station, they fire blanks, but the sound is as close as you could ever really want to get.

You could also just join up, leave civilian status, and see all kinds of cool stuff, they let you shoot guns for free with no range fees!!! I thought one of the coolest things was when we would run through the hovercraft yard on our way to run on the beach in pendleton.