Warthog on the prowl

A-10 over Denton TX.

Love the A-10s

Very nice!
They moved the F-16s out of Selfridge late last year & replaced them with A-10s, so I hope to be able to get some shots of them this year.

Love those shots!

Nice shots.

Really nice, i was fascinated with these planes when i was little.

Nice pair o' Hogs...

Good job on the exposure in #1 given that it's up sun.

Very nice. love the angle on #2

Nice shot's!

Thanks everyone for the comments. Due to the sun angle I had to wait for him to roll.

I remember reading about these in 1974 when the report came out regarding their design. Amazing that it took the Gulf War and OIF, some 30 years later, to realize their real potential. (Especially since these aircraft were about to be retired!)

The Soviets had always been BIG on tanks and outnumbered the NATO forces in tank-on-tank scenarios by about 3-1 or greater.

During the Gulf War the US invited the new Russian government to witness our attack on Sadam's Soviet built T-72 tanks (and others) and, as the Russians watched the US decimate tank after tank after tank using the A-10 and other aircraft, there was a hushed silence in the room - but you could hear their thoughts:

"Damn, are we glad we did not attack NATO!"

With 30mm DU rounds and Maverick missiles, able to fly low and slow over an AO, etc. the A-10 is a serious "tank killer" and infantry ground support aircraft.

Great A-10 shots. One of my most favorite planes.

Naturalist wrote in post #7858446
I remember reading about these in 1974 when the report came out regarding their design. Amazing that it took the Gulf War and OIF, some 30 years later, to realize their real potential. (Especially since these aircraft were about to be retired!)

The Soviets had always been BIG on tanks and outnumbered the NATO forces in tank-on-tank scenarios by about 3-1 or greater.

During the Gulf War the US invited the new Russian government to witness our attack on Sadam's Soviet built T-72 tanks (and others) and, as the Russians watched the US decimate tank after tank after tank using the A-10 and other aircraft, there was a hushed silence in the room - but you could hear their thoughts:

"Damn, are we glad we did not attack NATO!"

With 30mm DU rounds and Maverick missiles, able to fly low and slow over an AO, etc. the A-10 is a serious "tank killer" and infantry ground support aircraft.

If you believe Tom Clancy and other writers who've addressed the concept of the "Balloon Going Up," the ratio was closer to 10 to 1. The Soviets (according to some sources) still had T-34s in storage from WWII and would have rolled them through the Fulda Gap as simple (yet still deadly) mobile artillary pieces.

The description of the battlefield scenes in Red Storm Rising are nightmarish.

A spider web of TOW missle wires and the Soviet counterpart with A-10s and SU-25 Frogfoot aircraft swooping in and being obliterated nearly as quickly by Roland missle batteries, Stingers and ZSU-23 "Shilkas" and Soviet ManPADs. It would have been ugly...

Ahh Jay, you just made me go pull my copy of Red Storm Rising off the shelf and start reading it again for the umpteenth time!

Scout7id wrote in post #7858793
Ahh Jay, you just made me go pull my copy of Red Storm Rising off the shelf and start reading it again for the umpteenth time!

I do what I can...