From: | The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU> |
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Subject: | Close Air Suport (Was Re: Southerner's Rant) |
Date: | Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:34:06 -0500 |
> A10 has a slightly unfair advantage, which is why the darned things
> make such wonderful tank killers, that and the fact they have
> titanium armour under the pilot, nearly 'silent' engines (well by the
> time you can hear it there are 30mm slugs bouncing about your tank
> even if you had the engine off) and can fly even with about 1/3 of
> its wing area shot off.
Or with one engine shot off, or half the tail, or no hydrolics (they put
in a full manual wire and tie rod system in as a backup) or.... Did you
know they tried to make as much of the A-10 swappable between the right
and left side as possible. You can take the Left Tail off of a junked
aircraft and use it the replace the Right Tail on a damaged one with
minimal extra work. same thing with a heck of a lot of other parts.
Its slow, its cheep, its rugged, it works great. OF COURSE the the USAF
wants to get rid of it! :P to them, the f-16 will never be able to replace
the A-10 in CAS.
> >Right up there with the AC-130 Spector Gunship!
> Um :),........ now fields of fire has a sitable plane, and Rotary
> autocannon will double for boforous but the 75/90mm recoiless ......
> One way to wake up characters busy helping the Amazonian resistance
> :), someone in the Atzlan 3rd legion will think, well the USA tried
> em, if you cannot see the target circle and use more ammo! :)
Well lets see, what stats the USAF factsheets give for the
AC-130(www.af.mil/news/factsheets). Hmm no stats for the newer U model but
the AC-130H model had 2X 20mm autocannons(3,000 rounds), 1X 40mm bofors
cannon(256 rounds), and 1X 105mm howitzer (100 rounds). A wingspan of
40.4meters, a length of 29.8meters, a hight of 11.7 meters, a MTW of
69,750 kg, a range of 1,500 statute mils + in flight refuling, a speed of
300mph on its turboprop engines. A crew of 14 and a heck of a lot of
sensors that they won't list. Date Deployed 1972, unit cost 46.4 million
1992 dollars.
That should be enough for someone to start generating some stats for a
shadowrun equivilent. I wont be able to get home to my books for a few
hours.