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i think its safe to say it'll be in there if it has a spot on the battlefield, which it obviously does, just have patience

Scoggs117 wrote:o thought it was already scrapped, i've seen a few(hundred) in the desert in arizona....

Yeah orignally it wasn't even supposed to make it to the first Gulf War. The USAF has tried to unsuccessfully replace it for years. One was an F-16 with a pod mounted 30mm cannon. The accuracy sucked and made it only effective as an area fire weapon. Another model had an internal 30mm cannon, supposedly the heat from the thing firing liked to fry some of the electronics. After attempting to remove the plane with no replacement the Army threatened to take the Air Force to court during the late 80's over the Key West Agreement in order to gain custody of the aircraft. The A-10 seems like one of those things military brass can't kill no matter how hard they try. Kind of like that joke the B-52 pilots have about when they fly the last B-2 to the bone yard they'll all leave in a B-52.

that plane is my favourite ever. the design looks cool and it'll kick anyone's ***. a must have for pr.

Supposably the recoil created from the gatling gun is more than the foward thrust of the engines, meaning if u fired for too long you would stall. I want one

lol

It has a recoil force of the GAU-8/A is about 4 tons compares to other gatling guns which are like 1 ton (M61A1/2)..

I want a GAU-8/A mounted on a Bradley face the cannon backwards and uses it as propulsion

[R-DEV wrote:Djuice]
I want a GAU-8/A mounted on a Bradley face the cannon backwards and uses it as propulsion

sorry. it's project reality over here.

awww but it would be cool >.<

i know. like the jet power mod but better.

this plane is a nice touch to a mod its a beast in the air very heavily armed with a big tonage of bombs before even lookin at the beast cannon under the nose =)

only draw back on the a10 is there rather slow compared to modern fighters since it is classified as a bomber so its very slow .. but it can still fly and make it back to base safely if ya blow one of its engines out.

In the CAS role being slow is somewhat of an advantage. It can turn tighter circles and has a long loitering time. Nothing worse than air support dropping one bomb, then having to land/aerial refuel in order to stay over the target.

Tacamo wrote:In the CAS role being slow is somewhat of an advantage. It can turn tighter circles and has a long loitering time. Nothing worse than air support dropping one bomb, then having to land/aerial refuel in order to stay over the target.

Yeah, if the USAF doesn't want them anymore, I'm sure USSOCOM would like to have them. Special Operations squadrons flew the A-1 Skyraiders in Vietnam in support of CSAR; maybe they could do it again with the A-10.

i realy love this plane not just for the fact that you can blow the **** outta this plane and it can still maintain flight.

you can load this plane up with sooo much bombs it isnt funny and the main chain gun under the nose is just a tanks worst nightmare. i really hope this gets slotted into the mod espicaly like maps with like 3 a10's sittin on the tarmac just flyin all over the map rainin pain!!!

it would be great to have, you would just have to your fighters keeping the heat off it. i lovedddddddddd the A-10 in POE, nothing felt better then hearing a request to take out a tank, slowing down and railing on it with your 30mm cannon. and blowing it up, who needs bombs?

Ive played PoE but very rarely. So Ill resort to comparision with DC. I loved the A-10 in DC. It was very balanced, kind of slow but the cannon was devasting. The only think wrong with it in DC was cluster bombs. Kind of reminds me of how bombs are in Bf2 now. Very little skill (if any) involved.

If there was some way to slow down the rate at which the aircraft rearms back at the base. Furthermore make the pilot have to land before he can rearm, so that he'd cherish his ordinance and not waste every CBU he has in a single carpet-bombing run.

CobraPhantom wrote:Ive played PoE but very rarely. So Ill resort to comparision with DC. I loved the A-10 in DC. It was very balanced, kind of slow but the cannon was devasting. The only think wrong with it in DC was cluster bombs. Kind of reminds me of how bombs are in Bf2 now. Very little skill (if any) involved.

i agree in DC the a-10 was the cats tuxedo.. but like in BF2 now the cluster bombs are a noobs tool like the gay nade launcher

How many rounds of GAU8/A ammo can an A-10 hold btw?

Things i know about the gun.

Cant fire it for longer than 3 or 4 seconds...it melts or somethin from the heat.
Fires really REALLY fast.

So lets say it fires 80 per second (f**k me thats fast!) and unloads 240 in a burst...How many tanks could it actually kill assuming 1 burst=1 seriously buggered tank?

Oh yeah so how many stingers to take out one of these bad boys? 5?

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