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From: mailrus!sharkey!hela!iti.org!aws@uunet.UU.NET (Allen W. Sherzer)
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Subject: Re: a10 in combat
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.063145.5773@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 06:31:45 GMT
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From: mailrus!sharkey!hela!iti.org!aws@uunet.UU.NET (Allen W. Sherzer)
In article <1991Feb11.043358.27375@cbnews.att.com> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>If the A-10 can get a head-on shot at the attacker, the 30mm gun is reportedly
>extremely effective.  The gunsight isn't built for air combat, so something
>like a head-on encounter is needed to have much chance of hitting.

A friend of mine attended a briefing on the A-10 when they first entered
the inventory. For the hell of it they tried a 1v1 with an F-4. After they
merged, the A-10 would have shot down the F-4 ~8 times but the F-4 didn't
get a single good shot at the A-10.

Needless to say, had it been real, the F-4 would have put an AIM-7 into
him from several miles away. But then, the Warthog is such a tough aircraft
that it still might have been able to fly home.

  Allen

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