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A-10 uses a 30mm gattling gun.<-URS->Firefly wrote:
i would love the A-10, it would feel good to actuly kill a tank with a plane, and the A-10's 20mm vulcan could rip anything apart (but you might have a few balance issueswith being able to take down any chopper in the sky (if a cannon can take a tank down, its just a few bursts away from taking down Blackhawks and AH-1Zs :\
pwned.....War Man wrote:
A-10 uses a 30mm gattling gun.<-URS->Firefly wrote:
i would love the A-10, it would feel good to actuly kill a tank with a plane, and the A-10's 20mm vulcan could rip anything apart (but you might have a few balance issueswith being able to take down any chopper in the sky (if a cannon can take a tank down, its just a few bursts away from taking down Blackhawks and AH-1Zs :\
And depleted uranium shells...SWEET!War Man wrote:
A-10 uses a 30mm gattling gun.<-URS->Firefly wrote:
i would love the A-10, it would feel good to actuly kill a tank with a plane, and the A-10's 20mm vulcan could rip anything apart (but you might have a few balance issueswith being able to take down any chopper in the sky (if a cannon can take a tank down, its just a few bursts away from taking down Blackhawks and AH-1Zs :\
the only problem with putting the A-10 in BF would be that the MEC and CHina have no reasonable counterpart to it (F15 = Su-34, MiG29 = F35 = J10), and the probably unbeliveable whoreing that would occur with it...Aquastorm wrote:
Here's a short info on the A-10.
1) Can survive direct hits from armor-piercing and high-explosive projectiles up to 23mm
2) Self-sealing fuel tanks are protected by fire-retardant foam.
3) The cockpit are protected by 900 pounds (400 kg) of titanium armor
4) The placement of the engines partially shields them from anti-aircraft fire behind the wings and tail
5) Can fly even after the loss of one side of the tail, 2/3 of a single wing, and one engine.
6) Ugraded with Pave Penny laser sensor (marked target seeker) pod that allowed the pilot to direct laser-guided bombs against targets marked by friendly forces. ((Snipers really do need a lser to "light armour up".
7) Primary built-in weapon: 30 mm GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling gun, which is thehe most powerful aircraft cannon ever flown. Fires large, depleted uranium armor-piercing shells at a rate of 4,200 rounds per minute.
4200! 4200 rounds! Woot!
8) Principal weapon of the A-10 is the AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missile, with electro-optical targeting + better range
9) Additional weapons include: cluster bombs, rocket pods (like the helos), conventional and laser-guided bombs, ECM pod (jams missiles) and two AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. Will be ungraded to carry smart bombs.
10) In the 2003 defeat of conventional Iraqi forces, captured Fedayeen terrorists referred to the A-10 as "the Devil's Cross" a name that was also used for it in Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising (1986). Captured Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters referred to it as 'the silent gun'. The rounds hit their target before the target can hear the report of the gunfire.
What overkill. You can hear it, when you're dead, You can take out a engine, and he still has another engine and continues to fly. Fighter's can shoot it, but there's the two air-to-air missiles to worry about. The armour needs makes it so powerful that you can't blast it out with cannons and you can't even lock on with a damn Stinger! And they can bomb the crap outta the troops with 30MM CANNONS, GUIDED missiles, rockets and cluster bombs...900 gernades raining down on some very dead troops.
Estimated time EA will release A-10 on a map: 999999999999.9squared years.
Reason: Airplaning whoring would be unbearable and MEC and China would be complaining too much.
remember, that's depleated uranium wine bottles... you can shoot up an enemy flag at the beginning of the round, and still at the end it will be damaging them.stryyker wrote:
a-10's cannon
http://media.militaryphotos.net/photos/ … .sized.jpg
its size
http://www.nationmaster.com/wikimir/ima … venger.jpg
the round it fires
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/pgu_14b.jpg
so basically, you have a minigun, minus the 6 passengers that want to fire it, and wine bottle sized bullets.
TALK ABOUT SPLASH DAMAGE!!!
SU-25, I think is the SU equivalent of the A-10.<-URS->Firefly wrote:
the only problem with putting the A-10 in BF would be that the MEC and CHina have no reasonable counterpart to it (F15 = Su-34, MiG29 = F35 = J10), and the probably unbeliveable whoreing that would occur with it...Aquastorm wrote:
Here's a short info on the A-10.
1) Can survive direct hits from armor-piercing and high-explosive projectiles up to 23mm
2) Self-sealing fuel tanks are protected by fire-retardant foam.
3) The cockpit are protected by 900 pounds (400 kg) of titanium armor
4) The placement of the engines partially shields them from anti-aircraft fire behind the wings and tail
5) Can fly even after the loss of one side of the tail, 2/3 of a single wing, and one engine.
6) Ugraded with Pave Penny laser sensor (marked target seeker) pod that allowed the pilot to direct laser-guided bombs against targets marked by friendly forces. ((Snipers really do need a lser to "light armour up".
7) Primary built-in weapon: 30 mm GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling gun, which is thehe most powerful aircraft cannon ever flown. Fires large, depleted uranium armor-piercing shells at a rate of 4,200 rounds per minute.
4200! 4200 rounds! Woot!
8) Principal weapon of the A-10 is the AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missile, with electro-optical targeting + better range
9) Additional weapons include: cluster bombs, rocket pods (like the helos), conventional and laser-guided bombs, ECM pod (jams missiles) and two AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. Will be ungraded to carry smart bombs.
10) In the 2003 defeat of conventional Iraqi forces, captured Fedayeen terrorists referred to the A-10 as "the Devil's Cross" a name that was also used for it in Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising (1986). Captured Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters referred to it as 'the silent gun'. The rounds hit their target before the target can hear the report of the gunfire.
What overkill. You can hear it, when you're dead, You can take out a engine, and he still has another engine and continues to fly. Fighter's can shoot it, but there's the two air-to-air missiles to worry about. The armour needs makes it so powerful that you can't blast it out with cannons and you can't even lock on with a damn Stinger! And they can bomb the crap outta the troops with 30MM CANNONS, GUIDED missiles, rockets and cluster bombs...900 gernades raining down on some very dead troops.
Estimated time EA will release A-10 on a map: 999999999999.9squared years.
Reason: Airplaning whoring would be unbearable and MEC and China would be complaining too much.
Also, the A-10 is not a navy plane and therefore should under no circumstances be on an aircraft carrier, sorry too burst your Wake 07 idea :\
Last edited by -101-InvaderZim (2005-12-24 19:05:02)
yea, its like adding an engine to the front of the plane-101-InvaderZim wrote:
I also read (or heard) somewhere that the Vulcan minigun cant be used for long periods (like 10 secs bursts), or else the A-10 loses too much speed, stalls, and then crashes.......
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