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From: c60b-1er@web-3a.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: a10 in combat
Keywords: A10, Sidewinder
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.043133.26993@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 11 Feb 91 04:31:33 GMT
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From: c60b-1er@web-3a.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport)
In article <1991Feb9.025209.29262@cbnews.att.com> t6mx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>I just read a A-10 shot down a Iraqi fighter for the first time in history
>Any ideas of what weapons were used.  Do you think the cannon could be
>effecitive in high speed air warfare.  Can't remember if the A-10 carries
>air to air's as standard payload?

Source:  Air Force Magazine, May 1990 Almanac Issue.
"Gallery of USAF Weapons," under Attack and Observation Aircraft
A10 Armament:  One 30-mm GAU-8/A gun; eight underwing hard points and three
under fuselage for up to 16,000 lb of ordnance, including various types of
free-fall or guided bombs, combined effects munition (CEM) dispensers, gun
pods, six AGM-65 Maverick missiles, or four AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, and
jammer pods. . . 		    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I assumed that A10's would be armed with Sidewinders if there was a chance
of meeting hostile air forces...