>The A-10 Warthogwas a World War II version of the US Army's AH-64 Apache helicopter. It was first used in Vietnam in late 1975 following its successful operational testing and combat usage in the late 1970s.
The A-10's first major US Air Force appearance came in November 1976, the second half of that year, as the A-7 Liberator. The A-10 was also used heavily throughout Vietnam during this period due to a lack of an easy access helicopter in Vietnam. It became the first US combat helicopter in Vietnam after the attack on Saigon with the American forces of the United States.
The A-10 was deployed all over Vietnam in support of US forces in support of ground attacks but was often under fire and destroyed by anti-aircraft fire, often during ground and air combat.
The first A-10s were sent to Vietnam in 1976 on orders of US President Gerald Ford. The first
I take it that this is a history thread? I shall contribute.
I heard that the U.S. Ordnance Department was aware of the Sherman being a 'Tommy Cooker', and attempted to implement various measures to address this issue. The design team was lead by Sheldon Rosenstein, a convicted child-beater, arsonist, and avid necrophiliac. Sheldon was reportedly pen-pals with Shiro Ishii, and Oskar Dirlewanger. When questioned about these letters outgoing to hostile countries, Sheldon replied that he was merely exchanging 'tips and tricks'. Sheldon's team designed a mechanism that would lock the crew hatches shut, thus trapping the crew, when smoke was detected inside the sherman after being penetrated and set alight. Not only that, but apparently there was also a following feature that was a re-take on the Brazen Bull. When the crew was burning to death, their screams would be amplified by speakers that projected outside the tank. The U.S. Ordnance Department justified these features by proclaiming that the Germans would be frightened by the hellish screams of the sherman crews being incinerated, and allied soldiers would be more motivated to fight hard, lest the same fate befall them. Sheldon also later devised a system that had a 1 in 59 chance of setting off an explosive charge in the ammunition storage every time the Sherman's engine was turned on. Supposedly, this was to 'test the crew's luck before battle'. This innovation was well-received by the U.S. Army, but was rejected for budgetary reasons. Upon receiving news of the Army's rejection, Sheldon bludgeoned his manservant to death with a fire iron in a fit of unstoppable rage. Years after the war, Sheldon tragically died in a fire, which he had started in a New York orphanage.
The T-34 was the best tank of World War 2. With its heavy tank crew and heavy crew armor, and a fast rate of fire and high mobility, the T-34 was a formidable tank. But a couple of years after the war ended, Hitler decided he had a new idea. He decided to build a super tank designed to be as fast as the Sherman tank. It was the world's fastest tank, and it was equipped with an ultra high velocity engine, a super armor-piercing projectile, and a laser-guided bomb. He also decided to put a laser warning system into the armored personnel carriers because even though there were only about six million Americans fighting in World War II, it was estimated that most of them would be killed. So he decided on putting a radar-guided bomb on each of those armored personnel carriers. It was a plan known as the Luftwaffe's Focke-Wulf, which also employed stealthy, highly accurate projectiles.
If you look carefully at the data in my graph above about 50% of all planes have more than one propeller.
I believe that the new P40 can replace the last piston powered aircraft for the foreseeable future
All engines started to be replaced with some kind of hybrid or rotary powered engine by the mid of 2015. I have not been able to get data on how many of these airplanes are actually being replaced now, in which order, since they all appear as part of the same family: P40, P40A, P40B, P40C, P40D, P40E. In reality, I don't have any data for these aircraft since the data seems to disappear quite frequently during the transition. If I did not have data on the new turbines on the P40, I think the aircraft would be completely obsolete within less than 20 years.
But you don't need to know this to realize P40 is already obsolete. Even the new P48 would produce similar results today, albeit with much less power, and the old P
>all these retards in the thread talktotransformer.com You go there, input a sentence or two, and an AI gives you some bullshit, often to hilarious results.
Brody Torres
First Production Model The King Tiger II started in the summer of 1913 at the New Swabia World Fair and was in production from December 1914 through December 1961. The model had two engine and six gearboxes, a four inch engine hood, and a 6-cylinder, 1000 HP liquid jew fuel injection turbojet engine, all available with the six speed manual transfer case and available with the manual six speed gearbox. The tank, with 8 feet of track, and 4 liters total capacity (9-cylinder engine with three cylinder carburetor) was capable of moving the vehicle in 6.5 miles on a flatbed truck. The King Tiger and two other tanks were produced around the same time but they were of a less advanced design. The tank with 4 wheels and 11 inch, 45 pound engine had 3.5 cu-in. of overall area and a load capacity of 12.5 pounds with a trailer weighing 2.7 tons. The tank in the image above (C/O I. D. King & Co
Let's examine some statistics. The M-16 fire-rate has been reduced from 30,000-35,000 rounds per minute to 12,000-15,000 per minute. Most rifles have over 100,000 rounds fired per minute. By comparison, a typical home has only about 7,000 rifles in its arsenal. This has created a problem for law enforcement. The M-16 is a "killer", which is a very serious matter. A person can be injured or killed in an M-16 gunfight. A rifle with over 10,000 rounds fired per minute kills a person or two. More important, more innocent lives are also lost in M-16 gunfights than in similar situations in other firearms.
So why does the FBI have to employ such dangerous weapons? Why can't we go out into the wild to shoot people who want to kill us?
Because the FBI knows their lives can be saved by doing their jobs. The FBI is not a paramilitary organization and is not "law enforcement". Their job is to keep people safe
A-10C sucks and the P-51C isn't as bad. I wish P-51C pilots had a better nose and rudder than the A-10C's.
The A-10R is actually quite good. The A-10X has a higher stall speed and its rate of climb is better than the rest. You get the feeling the A-10 is faster than the P-51C if you fly faster in the air, so I find the A-10 to be slightly easier than the P-51C.
The A-10 was created by the US Air Force which meant the pilots had to find and equip the most expensive and unreliable aircraft on the market. The A-10R is a "bad guy" and not the "good guy" you would expect. It wasn't designed with high altitude use in mind. There are very high-altitude aircraft in the United States that take off with little more than one pilot on board. The F-35A-11 and later have been fitted with more than enough equipment to cope with high altitude work and with more than one
John Sanchez
The T-72 is a soviet main battle tank built to replace the T-55 and T-62 medium tanks. It has an 125mm smoothbore gun, lamiante armor and a laser range finder which will greatly improve its combat capabiltiy over the older T-55 and T-62 tanks which lack these things. The T-72 has also spotted to be equiped with explosive reactive armor which wil greatly improve its protection against anti tank weaponry that utilise HEAT warheads and can also destroy enemy vehicles and anti aircraft weaponry. The tank is also armed with a T-72-2 missile system and a T-72-3 system for anti tank weapon. It has also been fitted with the same type of air defense system as the T-54K and to allow for counter strikes against any enemy tank, a number of 120mm HEAT missiles have been fitted and in the field when equipped this system is called the "Cone of Steel" because the whole system is based on reinforced armor which is composed of high ballistic and armour plating along with a hardened titanium frame.
I wish WW2 flighter plane games would let you fly the a-10. It would be so cool to see how well you could tear shit up in the battle of Britain with a warthog. The A10 cannon would instantly destroy enemy planes.
Charles Taylor
Warthunder is this experience
Daniel Hall
The AK-47, or Avtomat Kalshnikovia, was a late-war Assault Rifle designed by the Soviet Union and first deployed in November of 1944. It was a direct outgrowth of the Fedorov Avtomat, an interwar select-fire rifle built from 1915-1924. Since the first Avtomat never saw combat, it was a rare and expensive rifle. Most of the Kalashnikov design elements were retained from the Fedorov model and, together, they contributed to creating the AK-47. However, the AK-47 became the standard model for the Soviet armed forces after the war, and the M-14 became an integral part of the Army during the 1990s.
The Russian Kalashnikov rifle is classified by the Army as an Assault Rifle of Soviet manufacture, but not a rifle with combat capabilities. Instead, it was intended to be carried only by officers, but because of its design and appearance, its military utility was never seriously debated. Despite all its flaws, such as it being difficult to shoot due to its awkward magazine release mechanism; it was among the best-liked rifles of the time, particularly due to its smooth feel and long-term reliability.
WW2 fighters out perform the A-10 pretty easily, the A-10 is not meant to perform hard turns then immediately regain its energy, it has pretty poor speed retention and cannot perform in the vertical without becoming a brick like a normal prop fighter can.
You can forget about war thunder and go right to DCS for things like this now.
Noah King
The A-10 Warthog is blatantly inferior to the C-130 in every way.
This is why the Obama administration is using "transit" in its title: To justify building a military base in Europe. The Air Force doesn't want its airplanes flying missions against terrorist groups or Islamic terrorists.
Obama and his Air Force brass are pushing the idea that the A-10 is the best combat aircraft in the world—because it's used to fight in all sorts of places where jets don't make perfect flying machines. And they want taxpayers to foot the bill for it.
The C-130 weighs about 400 pounds less than a C-17. A few thousand troops may be flying a C-130 at a time. The A-10 is a much more effective air-assault aircraft.
In fact, the only air-assault platform in the world so close to combat that isn't equipped to it is a drone. But if it gets there, who could help get to it, anyway? The U.S. can drop thousands of bombs, send troops to the other side of the world, and blow things Share
Jayden Jones
>Warthogawas Please tell me there was a native chief with this name so it can be used as the designation for some sort of ordinance.
Luke Parker
The 9M119 (nicknamed the "Magic Missile" by Operation Desert Storm tank crews) proved itself in 1991 against Iraqi M48s and M1 tanks during Operation Desert Storm. The missile is launched with a chamber pressure of 5,600 bars (~81,220 psi), which results in a velocity of 675 m/s (2200 ft/s). The 125 mm missile weighs 16.5 / 17.2 kg. The mass of the tandem hollow-charge alone is 4.5 kg (10 lb). The effective target range is 4,000 / 5,000 m.[4].
>YWN blast across the Kuwaiti desert popping monkey model M1s with your bros
The M1 Carbine is a semi-automatic, bolt action rifle developed by U.S. Special Operations Command for use by Special Forces Special Ops forces throughout the world.
In 2011, a government official claimed the M1 was the world's fastest-selling rifle. The official maintained that it was faster than its predecessor, the M-14, and claimed that the M-1 could reach 50 FPS in under 1.2 seconds. However, the "fire proof" claim turned out to be a misread of the firing speed on the gun's muzzle. According to the Department of Defense, the M1 carbine's firing speed actually peaked at 50 FPS in 1.6 seconds, meaning it was actually faster than the M14 in 0.5 seconds - well ahead of the 7.62x39mm cartridge, which is 3.9 longer, and about 1 shorter in overall length. The official also claimed the M1 could fire 7.62x51mm NATO ammunition, with the 7.62x54mm cartridge being used, but this is also debatable.
Mason Davis
The Communist Chinese PLA is the strongest military in the withering world.
The Chinese Army has over two million troops, including 600,000 soldiers and over 20,000 tanks. Its forces constitute over half the PLA's strength. China commands the vast majority of the largest armies and naval forces in the world and even has the finest equipment of any nation in the world.
China, with its rich natural resources, vast population and history, is a natural competitor, especially compared to the United States which has only half as much mineral wealth.
China's massive natural resources should have made all the country's troops able to withstand the challenges facing the world, but now it has become a danger to everyone's interests.
China's rise to power has been based on its military's ability to crush other countries. In fact, China has become world leader in the construction of an anti-continent invasion force, known as the PLA or People's Liberation Army.
When it is all said and done, China is the strongest military in the world. Its population is huge. Its citizens have the opportunity to live a happy life in peace
Grayson Gutierrez
this thread is making me uncomfortable, it sounds like something out of the history channel.
Dylan Powell
the wehrmacht, the Red Army] had the best airpower of all those armies. They had the best aircraft." (The Soviets, Vol. I, pp. 43ff.) The "best aircraft" of any country were the MiGs of the Luftwaffe, which had developed close to 10,000 by the end of 1945, nearly three times as many as were previously known to the Soviets. "Even the fighters of American service, which had been flying mainly fighters in air combat prior to World War II and which were only able to reach airfields after the war," commented von Diesig, "were well over 10,000 units large. The Germans had just about six, and the Soviet pilots had at least 15,000 airplanes." (The Soviets, Vol. II, pp. 45ff.) These planes would have been comparable to those of the Nazis, but they were the best aircraft of the time, even better than the American F-86 Sabre. In August 1945, the Luftwaffe, using the Spitfire and MiG-29 fighters, were able to intercept and destroy seven American jeeps.
