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Posted: 3/24/2002 10:39:22 AM EDT

[img]http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20020324/i/1016992516.2819072044.jpg[/img]
The U.S. flew ground support A-10 Warthog warplanes into Afghanistan over the weekend in apparent preparation for further attacks on defiant al Qaeda and Taliban forces. A U.S. military spokesman said March 24, 2002 that fewer than 10 of the planes, nicknamed for their squat appearance, would operate out of an air base just north of Kabul. Two A-10s are seen in this April, 1999 file photo. Photo by Usaf/Reuters

Mike

Posted: 3/24/2002 10:42:20 AM EDT

[#1]

Booyaaah!

I don't know why everyone thinks the A-10 is so ugly. I think it looks great... Love the thing overall. Maybe I'm crazy.

Posted: 3/24/2002 10:46:49 AM EDT

[#2]

I'm gunna by a surplus A-10 with the GAO-8 gun still in it. Then i'll fly over california and shoot all of the Fruits and Nuts.

Posted: 3/24/2002 10:59:14 AM EDT

[#3]

I too think that the A-10 is a great looking aircraft.

[img]www.af.mil/photos/photogallery/images/3.jpg[/img]

Posted: 3/24/2002 11:00:26 AM EDT

[#4]

More pics and a short overview here:

[url]http://www.viewzone.com/a10.html[/url]

Posted: 3/24/2002 11:35:02 AM EDT

[#5]

Ar fan - you’re not crazy. You’re right!

Thanks for the link Kar98

Mike

Posted: 3/24/2002 11:46:17 AM EDT

[#6]

I'm not sure if I like the green paint scheme, or grey paint scheme better...the grey does look a little more menacing.

Posted: 3/24/2002 11:50:46 AM EDT

[#7]

She's a beaut allright, every bit as trashy as the F-4 Phantom. Some fighter planes are Pretty Girls F-16/F-22. And some of the them are a little on the trashy side, those are the ones that say DO ME BABY!. I likem a little on the trashy side.

Ben

Posted: 3/24/2002 12:30:59 PM EDT

[#8]

Flying tanks is what they are. Things of beauty.

Posted: 3/24/2002 12:36:58 PM EDT

[#9]

The A-10 is the only TRUE close air support aircraft in the US arsenal. The F16 is OK, but it lacks the firepower to get the job done. The Harrier is a toy next to the A-10. It's a shame that the aircraft in the photos are a so lightly armed. At Ft. Sill, we used to call them in all the way from Texas. Worth the wait, since them came loaded out with every hardpoint max'd out.

Posted: 3/24/2002 2:30:58 PM EDT

[#10]

'Hogs kick butt!

ranks right up there with the Skyraider in my oppinion.. [:)]

[img]http://www.indyairshow.com/attractions/attr_images/Skyraider.jpg[/img]

Posted: 3/24/2002 3:17:54 PM EDT

[#11]

I miss the OV-10D Bronco and the A-6E Intruder, also known as the Mini-B-52. But I LOVE the A-10. Just wish they'd let us Jarheads have some. Nothing like having your Close Air Support being delivered by someone who actually knows how to use a rifle and has been trained in the same tactics.

Posted: 3/24/2002 3:19:09 PM EDT

[#12]

In the FIRST PIC, SECOND PLANE. It looks like he has Aim-9 SideWinders on the outer hardpoint. The last I heard back in the late 80's early 90's they were trying to do this. Would anybody second that??

Benjamin

Posted: 3/24/2002 3:44:03 PM EDT

[#13]

The A-10 is cool, but the F22 is just downright [b]WICKED[/b], IMO.

Tyler

[img]http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-22-990167a.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-22-19990601-f-0000l-001.jpg[/img]

Posted: 3/24/2002 3:52:58 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
The A-10 is cool, but the F22 is just downright [b]WICKED[/b], IMO.

Tyler

[img]http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-22-990167a.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-22-19990601-f-0000l-001.jpg[/img]

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I knew I like you! Sucha sweet airplane. My dad spent a few good years prior to retirement working on that aircraft at Boeing. Those are very impressive aircraft.

Posted: 3/24/2002 4:24:16 PM EDT

[#15]

hard to beleive the AF wanted to retire them prior to desert storm.

Posted: 3/24/2002 4:32:10 PM EDT

[#16]

The F-22 is Hella-Cool, but it doesn't carry SHIT for ordinance. As an Air Superiority Fighter, it's gonna kick ass. But, "Fighter pilots make movies, BOMBER pilots make HISTORY."

Posted: 3/24/2002 4:36:03 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
[img]http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20020324/i/1016992516.2819072044.jpg[/img]
The U.S. flew ground support A-10 Warthog warplanes into Afghanistan over the weekend in apparent preparation for further attacks on defiant al Qaeda and Taliban forces. A U.S. military spokesman said March 24, 2002 that fewer than 10 of the planes, nicknamed for their squat appearance, would operate out of an air base just north of Kabul. Two A-10s are seen in this April, 1999 file photo. Photo by Usaf/Reuters

Mike

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LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!

Posted: 3/24/2002 5:03:26 PM EDT

[#18]

I just wanna know, why now? Where the hell were the hogs 4 months ago when we REALLY needed 'em? Seems like we're a little behind the curve. Did the Klinton budget cuts foul up deployability that bad? Wouldn't surprise me.

Posted: 3/24/2002 5:57:59 PM EDT

[#19]

[img]http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/attack/a10/a10_07.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/attack/a10/a10_08.jpg[/img]

Posted: 3/24/2002 5:59:14 PM EDT

[#20]

[img]http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/cockpits/a10/a10_panel_05.jpg[/img]

Posted: 3/24/2002 6:32:30 PM EDT

[#21]

[img]http://www.a-10.org/top2.jpg[/img]
GIB
[sniper]

Posted: 3/24/2002 7:00:52 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
The A-10 is cool, but the F22 is just downright [b]WICKED[/b], IMO.

Tyler

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I agree that the F-22 is the single greatest combat aircraft in the world right now, but I still feel that the Air Force should have picked the YF-23. It not only preformed beter where it counts (speed and stealth) but in my opinion was a much beter looking aircraft.

Posted: 3/24/2002 7:49:29 PM EDT

[#23]

When I think of a good looking aircraft, I am typically thinking of the A-4 Skyhawk:

[img]http://www.skyhawk.org/142113a.jpg[/img]

But I also like are the A-10 Warthog quite a bit...

-iNuhBaDNayburhood

Posted: 3/24/2002 8:07:30 PM EDT

[#24]

When it comes to the battle of the beautiful, ugly, PURPOSEFUL looking planes, there is only one Rhino. The McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

[img]http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/gallery/images/f4/d4c-118173-12.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/gallery/images/f4/d4c-117088-12.jpg[/img]

I would have really liked to see the Phantom's service life extended in a retrofit program to install new engines, modernize and simplify the avionics, reduce the pilot's workload, convert to fly-by-wire, and generally modernize the entire plane. It is a highly maneuverable and powerful aircraft, and such a program would probably be worthwhile. Plus with many thousands of them in existence, it would have been cost-effective to do this when compared to producing an equivalent number of new planes.

However, I think new planes are in order anyway. I just don't like the thought of fabulous Phantoms being turned into beer cans or Toyotas.

I'd like to set up a non-profit organization JUST to get a display phantom of my own. You can do that, if you have a a genuine non-profit organization and have a place to DISPLAY the plane. It MUST be on display to the public, that's the rules.

CJ

Posted: 3/24/2002 8:36:39 PM EDT

[#25]

I like the ones painted with the eyes and teeth in front. ive seen A10's in person @ two different air shows in the past few years. I LOVE em.

Posted: 3/24/2002 8:45:34 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Booyaaah!

I don't know why everyone thinks the A-10 is so ugly.

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ohh they are ugly alright that for sure

for the camel jockies and towel heads that is [:)]

Posted: 3/24/2002 8:52:49 PM EDT

[#27]

My apologies to those of you on dial-up.

I had no idea so many pictures would be posted.

Should I re-name the thread? Add a warning?

I thought that the original photo was striking, and that the comments would be on the nose cannon.

I like the added pics, but I’m on broadband.

Mike