Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: jb7m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon C. R. Bennett) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: A10 armor Message-ID: <1991Feb8.012049.14921@cbnews.att.com> Date: 8 Feb 91 01:20:49 GMT References: <1991Feb6.024038.16048@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 20 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "Jon C. R. Bennett" larmo@pro-odyssey.cts.com (System Administrator) writes: > > the rest of the aircraft is designed > to survive ground fire. the fuel tanks are non exploding, there are several > flight surfaces that can sustain servere damage and still funtion. you could > vertually loose an engine and still fly. there is a very good discription of the A-10's damage sustaining abilities in, i belive, "An illustrated guide to modern combat aircraft", which stated that, the A-10 can lose one engine, 1/2 of the horizonal stabilizer (and with that one of its two tail fins), 1/2 of one wing, and one of the three main wing spars (there are three and any two can take the load), and STILL BE ABLE TO FLY! given this and the degree of protection given the pilot it is clear that it should be very hard to down an A-10. jon