[ARC5] A10 Warthog

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Wed Jul 4 13:59:55 EDT 2018


On 3 Jul 2018 at 18:13, jeepp wrote:

> 
> Jack and others,
> The Six was an outstanding aircraft.  The B model being slightly faster than the single-seat A 
> model.  The two types of AA missles and the AIR-2A special weapon did (could) do the job.  At 
> Langley in the 70's, they put a gun pod on several airframes and they turned out to be truly good 
> at ACM.  As I recall, they fought against  F-4's and came out on top half the time.  No smoke, 
> either...

As I understand it, no one ever figured out why the F-4 smoked.

Ken W7EKB

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