I never realized how big a 30mm A-10 Warthog round was

[Muhammed]

Armament: One 30mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun; up to 16,000 pounds (7,200 kilograms) of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including 500 pound (225 kilograms) Mk-82 and 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) Mk-84 series low/high drag bombs, incendiary cluster bombs.

 

[1srelluc]

No depleted uranium core in this one, just solid steel.

It's likely a round used to test feeding/operation of the cannon.

I found several in a box of .mil "junk" at a yard sale, all Desert Storm era....All were inert.

I've found some really good stuff in boxes like that over the years....That's how I got an ACOG scope.

LOL....One morning (early 90s) I pulled up to a sale and there was an empty .mil duffle bag laying there. I bought it for a buck and asked the lady if she had anymore .mil stuff.

She just smiled, punched in the code on her garage door, and when it opened the whole inside of the garage (single bay) was filled with .mil stuff!

$100.00 she said but you have to take it all. I paid her and started loading. It was clear my PU would not haul it all so I called my dad and he came with his van and it was all we could do to clean it all out.

The guy kept everything from when he was a butterbar in Vietnam to a Major General!

Turns out the general had took-up with an other woman overseas and divorced her. I made a mint selling that stuff!

 

[Senior]

I still don't quite understand why the USAF wants to retire the A-10. It may be the best close-air-support aircraft ever built.

 

[JGalt]

It's likely a round used to test feeding/operation of the cannon.

I found several in a box of .mil "junk" at a yard sale, all Desert Storm era....All were inert.

I've found some really good stuff in boxes like that over the years....That's how I got an ACOG scope.

LOL....One morning (early 90s) I pulled up to a sale and there was an empty .mil duffle bag laying there. I bought it for a buck and asked the lady if she had anymore .mil stuff.

She just smiled, punched in the code on her garage door, and when it opened the whole inside of the garage (single bay) was filled with .mil stuff!

$100.00 she said but you have to take it all. I paid her and started loading. It was clear my PU would not haul it all so I called my dad and he came with his van and it was all we could do to clean it all out.

The guy kept everything from when he was a butterbar in Vietnam to a Major General!

Turns out the general had took-up with an other woman overseas and divorced her. I made a mint selling that stuff!

The "TP" in PGU-15/B TP stands for "Target Practice."

 

[candycorn]

Yes. We know you commies much prefer vids of gang rapes. baby killings, and torture of unarmed civilians served you by your Hamas heroes.

Yet you're the only one mentioning gang rapes, baby killings and torture.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Yet you're the only one mentioning gang rapes, baby killings and torture.

Yet you and your fellow left wing vermin are the only ones validating those terrorist acts as legit 'resistance'. No wonder you're upset when you're outed.

 

[candycorn]

Yet you and your fellow left wing vermin are the only ones validating those terrorist acts as legit 'resistance'. No wonder you're upset when you're outed.

Yet amazingly, I never said any such thing...only you.

 

[candycorn]

I still don't quite understand why the USAF wants to retire the A-10. It may be the best close-air-support aircraft ever built.

They haven't made any in like 40 years. Why???????????????????

 

[EdwinAMartin]

The Air Force is complaining about outdated airframes and maintenance costs, and think drones are better, or will be. It is also vulnerable when we don't control the airspace, but that has been a rare to non-existent problem since Korea.

Maybe the Army should take it over; it only has one mission, CAS.

 

[westwall]

The Air Force is complaining about outdated airframes and maintenance costs, and think drones are better, or will be. It is also vulnerable when we don't control the airspace, but that has been a rare to non-existent problem since Korea.

Maybe the Army should take it over; it only has one mission, CAS.

The Army has told the Air Force that that's exactly what they will do if it is pulled from service.

The Air Force wants to rid of it because it isn't capable of Mach 1.