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kireol
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 Posted: 12/22/03 - 22:52 Post subject: I thought these were retired
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looks like in 95 they brought em back in to service. I love em.
On that subject
F - fighter as in F-15
B- Bomber as in B1
SR- strategic reconnaissance as in SR-71
T-Trainers
C- Transport
A - ???? as in A-10
what the hell does A mean?
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Pags
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 22:54 Post subject:
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Yeah the SR-71 is definately badass.
As for the A-10...maybe Assault, or attack? /shrug I forget
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kireol
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 22:55 Post subject:
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assault sounds right. as in ground assault. I'll go with that =)
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kireol
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Endraven
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 22:59 Post subject:
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A-10 as in A-10 warthog. which specializes in anti armor? only a guess i dunno
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:03 Post subject:
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Endraven
Luke Warm
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:04 Post subject:
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****
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Paden
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:05 Post subject:
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| Endraven wrote: | | A-10 as in A-10 warthog. which specializes in anti armor? only a guess i dunno |
It's realname is
The A-10 Thunderdolt
Warthog is the nick name because its f**k ugly.
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Pags
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:07 Post subject:
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As far as I know, the SR-71 is still retired. I believe it was too expensive to maintain and use, and not really needed without the threat of another superpower. I could be wrong though.
Paden you are smoking crack, the A-10 is also badass looking.
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Endraven
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:09 Post subject:
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Luke Warm
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:11 Post subject:
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and im stealing that picture for my sig kbarr 
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:13 Post subject:
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| Pags wrote: |
Paden you are smoking crack, the A-10 is also badass looking. |
He is 100% correct as per the pilots who flew it.
They named it warthog because they thought it was ugly.
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median
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:14 Post subject:
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WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
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kireol
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:16 Post subject:
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| Quote: | | The U.S. Air Force retired its fleet of SR-71s on January 26, 1990, because of a decreasing defense budget and high costs of operation. The USAF returned the SR-71 to the active Air Force inventory in 1995 and began flying operational missions in January 1997. |
http://www.af.mil/photos/specduty_other_0015.html
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Occulis
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:53 Post subject:
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| Code: | | Dec 22 2003 10:57PM - JED - Note the username and password are the same. The reason they came to our service is, in their own words: "We got hacked while using Intelos. But we got a firewall now, so it can't happen again." |
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kireol
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Posted: 12/22/03 - 23:55 Post subject:
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obviously they havent seen that commercial where the black lady is voiced over by the n**d and he buys a female robot for prom. cuz he says "firewall, heh, like that'll stop me!"
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scoresia
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 00:07 Post subject:
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The A-10 was allso known as "Tank Killer" cause that's what it did. I had an old game on my 486 called A-10 Tank Killer
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Pags
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 00:25 Post subject:
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| Kbarr wrote: | | Pags wrote: |
Paden you are smoking crack, the A-10 is also badass looking. |
He is 100% correct as per the pilots who flew it.
They named it warthog because they thought it was ugly. |
Owned by Paden. I think I'll go to bed now.
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Rasil_Sabishi
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 00:44 Post subject:
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| scoresia wrote: | | The A-10 was allso known as "Tank Killer" cause that's what it did. I had an old game on my 486 called A-10 Tank Killer |
I loved that f****n game!
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Faerdal
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 06:20 Post subject:
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the "A" designation is for "attack"
F/A-18 Hornet... Fighter/Attack aircraft
the F designation is given for primary dogfighting abilities, the A is given for ground attack capabilities
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Dapht
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 07:27 Post subject:
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The A-10 is pretty sweet. We have them where I am stationed. Very graceful and very quiet. Depleated uranium tip shells for piercing the armor of tanks and shit. And able to fly with half the damn plane missing.
I wish that I was able to get my incentive ride in one of em.. but alas. Tis only a 1 seater. Guess it will just have to be a F16 
Live fire exercise over the pacific alaska range complex (parc)
http://www.eielson.af.mil/news/photos/a-10rng.jpg
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Paco
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 08:45 Post subject:
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Faer is correct, A is for attack.
We had a squadron of them near Knox and they used to use the the ranges. We'd be out humping to a range and then we'd hear them coming. It's a very distinctive sound, and yes, realtively quiet for what they are. It was badass too..they were coming, you could tell..then they just pop up over the ridge and trees and you'd hear brrrrrrrrp, brrrrrrrrp, and then down range you'd see the impacts hitting the old tanks on the range. It would ight them up. During the nice show, the A-10s would then jump back down on the deck and zip around...
Talk about an instant woody. At one time I wanted to fly them. Then I learned they were phasing them out(all prior to the gulf war) so I didn't pursue that line..it p****d me off to learn they had a resurgence of usage for the gulf war and then some for the second gulf war. Oh well. /sigh
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Zapper
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Rennol
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 12:55 Post subject:
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Of course the idiots in Washington, D.C. and the Pentagon have cancelled production of the A-10 and are replacing it in favor of the F-15E Strike Eagle.
Retarded. A-10's aren't designed to attack as anything except close-support, and F-15's aren't designed for that, even if they can put a ton of ordinance on it the A-10 still can fly in there and take a missile hit and still get out whereas the F-15 can be f****d by even small arms fire.
Anyways, the A-designation comes from stuff like the A-1 Skyraider, A-7 Corsair, etc., these were all designed for ground attack missions. The Navy eventually made the F/A-18 and merged them ;p
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compusmack
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 13:17 Post subject:
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Our military has both those kinds of planes (sorta close anyway):
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Tura
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WheresNWS
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 13:47 Post subject:
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A-10 is one of my all-time favorite airplanes because it was built to be very simple and rugged. I'm going to Tucson, tonight, home of one of the two A-10 training bases, so I'll be able to see a lot of them.
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Sunkorzien
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 13:51 Post subject:
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Yea...the A-10 can literally fly with half of it missing. Back in Desert Storm, one took a shell to the wing, half the wing ripped apart, and went straight into the engine. Engine stalled, pilot got it restarted, and landed. Half a wing missing, engine f****d to hell....and it still flew. Pretty f*****g impressive aircraft.
I miss the F-111 though.
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Sunkorzien
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 13:52 Post subject:
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| WheresNWS wrote: | | A-10 is one of my all-time favorite airplanes because it was built to be very simple and rugged. I'm going to Tucson, tonight, home of one of the two A-10 training bases, so I'll be able to see a lot of them. |
Oh, make sure you see the graveyard right outside the airport. Few thousand planes I think...pretty f*****g awesome.
Tucson blows though. =\
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WheresNWS
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Posted: 12/23/03 - 13:56 Post subject:
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| Sunkorzien wrote: | | WheresNWS wrote: | | A-10 is one of my all-time favorite airplanes because it was built to be very simple and rugged. I'm going to Tucson, tonight, home of one of the two A-10 training bases, so I'll be able to see a lot of them. |
Oh, make sure you see the graveyard right outside the airport. Few thousand planes I think...pretty f*****g awesome.
Tucson blows though. =\ |
I lived there for about 10 years a couple miles from the graveyard and my dad used to work there so I know about it...and I also know that Tucson blows. :( I was hoping to go skiing in Mt Lemmon, but it looks like there will be no snow.
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