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re: The legend is back! A10 Warthogs are back in action in Iran
Posted on 3/19/26 at 11:10 am to SippyCup
Posted on 3/19/26 at 11:10 am to SippyCup
The A-10 is a beast. I was F15 and A10 avionics when I was active duty. Also these are not even the same A10s they were 10 years ago. It blows my mind when people think these jets are still flying the same stuff they rolled off the lines with. All of these jets have been upgraded significantly. The A-10 is about to start wrecking shite.
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Posted on 3/19/26 at 11:15 am to Swamp Angel
quote:This is correct.
The entire airframe was built around the GAU-8 30mm main gun. It was designed to be a flying gun.
The gun was designed first and the military contract was for an aircraft that could incorporate it. The nose wheel is offset to the side because the damn cannon is so big.
Posted on 3/19/26 at 11:16 am to bhtigerfan
Interwebs say that A10 was used in the first 24 hours of Epic Fury….
Posted on 3/19/26 at 11:21 am to BobBoucher
Love the A-10s ….
Posted on 3/19/26 at 12:17 pm to BobBoucher
Posted on 3/19/26 at 12:39 pm to BobBoucher
Coming in hot mullahs! Pray to Allah while you still can.
Posted on 3/19/26 at 1:54 pm to prplhze2000
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He used his Stuka to kill tanks and not with bombs either.
The A-10 Thunderbolt resembles the Junkers JU 87 Stuka insofar as it has wings, a fuselage, and requires a pilot. That's about the extent of the similarities between the aircraft.
The JU 87G variant was refitted with two 30mm cannons attached to hard points on the wings in order to adapt to the role of "tank killer" but it requires a massive intellectual stretch to say that this was the grandfather of the Republic A-10 Thunderbolt, which is essentially an aircraft built around a 30mm GAU-8 cannon as opposed to the JU 87G which was a dive bomber with the hard points for bomb attachment being utilized for the attachment of 30mm cannon pods.
Posted on 3/19/26 at 2:00 pm to toratiger
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Hans Rudel
Much better than Hans Gruber.
Posted on 3/19/26 at 2:19 pm to BobBoucher
Love their unique sound. Make the hair stand up on my neck.
Posted on 3/19/26 at 2:20 pm to BobBoucher
Those things are old school terrifying.
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