| Posted by scourge |
10/20/2004 5:14 AM | remove |
I like this one. That's a plane I wouldn't mind flying :)
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| Posted by Samurai |
10/22/2004 11:43 PM | remove |
Thunderbolt II otherwise known as the 'Warthog'...
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| Posted by scourge |
10/25/2004 2:18 AM | remove |
A-10... mostly nobody calls em 'thunderbolt' anymore... usually just call it the "Hawg" because it's so damn ugly... but lethal!
We have an A-10 on static display at my base, along with about 11 other various airplanes. Fun stuff.
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| Posted by orangeindiana |
12/2/2004 4:58 AM | remove |
Looks like they're flying a little low there...
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| Posted by Kbasa |
12/2/2004 6:01 AM | remove |
low enough to kill a tank!!!
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| Posted by Panther |
4/1/2005 4:34 PM | remove |
That's what the warthog was bulit for, low level bombing. Slow compared to a fighter jet but just as lethal with it's carrying capacity, and if i remember correctly they have 50mm machine guns?? If im wrong please correct me.
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| Posted by Samurai |
4/2/2005 12:10 AM | remove |
The A-10 is equipped with two General Electric turbofan engines, has a top speed of about 430mph and is armed with a 30mm gatling gun in the nose firing depleted uranium rounds. :o)
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| Posted by SnArF |
4/4/2005 7:07 PM | remove |
:-)
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| Posted by Panther |
4/10/2005 1:15 AM | remove |
Well it still does a hell of alot of damage.
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| Posted by Samurai |
5/24/2005 5:03 AM | remove |
'hell of alot of damage' is an understatement!
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| Posted by maxt |
12/1/2005 8:12 PM | remove |
They made the cannon first and then built the plane around it. Those 30mm DU shells will split a tank in half in about .09 seconds. It also fires so fast that you don't hear the typical rata-tat-tat, but it makes more of a "burp" sound.
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| Posted by Ford Prefect |
12/12/2005 5:00 AM | remove |
That cannon fires so rapidly, it slows the plane's air speed by a few knots.
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/1/2006 9:06 PM | remove |
Actually, there is a trim compensator in the aircrafts' avionic that will trim the nose down when the cannon fires. The cannon has that much ass! The pilot sits in an armored titanium alloy 'bathtub', the aircraft can have large pieces of it shot off and still come home... Thunderbolt II was an apt name if you know anything about aircraft of World War II vintage.
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| Posted by Ford Prefect |
1/8/2006 12:41 AM | remove |
P-47, yet another flying tank
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/8/2006 3:38 PM | remove |
exactly, it's moniker was "Jug", which was short for "juggernaut".
:o)
Aircraft used to be my life.
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