British Couple Reacts to The Insane Engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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Not a fighter but an attack aircraft, hence the "A" in "A-10". Used exclusively against enemy ground and armored forces.
@@Billy-zv6gv Billy, the Thunderbolt(s) of WWII were fighter craft but were P-47s.
@@sideboob6851 "sideboob" is so amusing, I'mma take your word for it and delete what I had previously replied. And I clicked "like" for your's. Dammit, I might be drunk.🤔
yea, its a close air support
@@nesseihtgnay9419 Yes! And my Marine nephew said they definitely supported their close air support in Iraq! Warthogs and Apaches!
@@dlmdee You're right: drones with cameras spoiled the illusion that ducks are sitting, 'cause they don't have butt cheeks; they're actually laying down, bird style.
Like a '70's and '80's pickup truck. It may not be fast, it may not be pretty, but it's tough as hell and gets the job done reliably.
You have to understand that GAU-8 avenger 30mm auto cannon came first and the air force wanted it to fly
lol yeah "nice gun, make it fly"
Yeah the army is like yeah we really got no use for this damn thing. And the Air Force is like can it be airborne?
That's absolutely correct. The plane was designed around the GAU-8.
True story
The A-10 is basically a flying tank designed to be a tank and fixed position killer at low altitude. They can take a enormous amount of hits and keep on going.
Fantastic reaction video of an absolutely disgraceful narration!!! 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
Ask any soldier or marine what their favorite close air support aircraft is and most of them will answer the Warthog. Those things saved many lives and killed a lot of enemy fighters in Afghanistan. I will always love the Warthog.
It takes 3 years and 5 million dollars to make one pilot. Yes, they are valuable.
Beyond just that, is all the other troops they're helping.
The Air Force wanted to get rid of the A-10. So the Army said they would take it so then the Air Force said We’re keeping it. It does one thing Protects Ground Forces.
If the Air Force doesnt want it. I am sure the Marine Air Wing would gladly take it to keep the grunts on the ground safe.
@@ralphpeed3596 I first saw an A-10 at an air show in 1983. Have been in love with it ever since.
So frustrating! A case of just because you have rank/authority doesn't mean that you know what is best!...from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸👋🤠
A-10 costs $10.1 million to make. F-16 costs $63 million to make. F-35 costs $70 to $90 million to make. The A-10 uses "off the shelf" parts, while the fighter planes use specialized parts (justifiably) Fighter planes differ in usage. The F-16 is more of a "we've been spotted/dogfight ensues" kind of plane. The F-35 is more of a "Avoid getting spotted/attack/disappear" kind of plane.
Exactly
And the warthog is a "idgaf if you see me cause I'll delete you" type of aircraft
The newest A-10s are over 40 years old and the aircraft is still in service today. It is so good at its job that when the Air Force tried to retire it the Comandant of the United States Marine Corp called the Air Force General in charge and said that if he retired the Warthog the Marine General would go check out a Marine FA-18 fighter and personally fire bomb the Air Force General's family home. The Air Force dropped the plan to retire the Warthog and over the next 25 years the aircraft has been upgraded 4 times since then.
One A-10 returned to base after having an engine shot out and half of the tail shot away. Another returned from a combat mission to Baghdad, Iraq with over 350 bullet holes in it.
If you hear the A-10s gun firing, it wasn't aimed at you. The bullets get to you before the sound they make does.
Tank killer on steroids! This Marine loves this bad bird
The G.A.U 30 mm gun on the A-10 is bigger than a Volkswagen Beetle. They built the plane around the gun. The gun causes the plane to actually slow down when fired. So they fire in short bursts to counter it from causing drag. The bullets it fires are the size of beer bottles. Turns the enemy into just a red mist. To me it's the best plane ever built simply because of it's support for the troops on the ground. It saves lives. Soldiers got to go home to their families because of the A-10. And it'll be a sad day for me when they retire the A-10.
Additionally, when an aircraft is firing 70 rounds per second you need to account for 2 vastly more important reasons for short bursts instead of sustained firing. 1. Amount of ammo used 2. Heat displacement
These weren't meant to target troops, but hard target etc tanks, APC, machine gun nests and turrets. The "red mist" is a secondary result
Light and mobile are not words that I would use to describe the A10 😂 It is literally a tank that flies 😂
the A-10 was born out of the necessity of an all weather ground support aircraft. The United States Air Force was flying a propeller aircraft it was the A-1 Sky Raider The lack of speed of it is what pushed the DoD to seek a replacement for it. Thus the A-10 "Warthog"(actual name is Thunderbolt 2") the endearing name given this aircraft by it's pilots. The Warthog has been on the retirement list for many years but it seems to always survives, the Air Force has wanted to use the F35 strike fighter for this job but it does not have the capability to carry the loads required, as well as not having the survivability as the A-10, so it is still in the inventory. I do not know if they are in process of designing or testing a replacement, however I do know that the fleet is going through a full tear down and rebuild with new wings and wing spars, new electronics so they will be around for many more years.
It doesn't matter if you start running during an bombing mission. With that being said, it only takes seconds to hit the target. Basically, if you can see it, it's already to late!😮
When a U.S. defense contractor says cheap the word has a different definition than when you and I say cheap. They are comparing it to some of the most expensive military weapons systems ever devised.
The A10 has a stronger metal body made of titanium. A tank has blow out charges that direct the blast away from the main body so it doesn't take full damage but it does take damage
A salute to all our American pilots! They are amazing!
Hey guys a great video that will knock your socks off is called “Grunts in the Sky.” It’s a video that will show you actual footage of the A-10 in action with the soldiers on the ground. It shows soldiers under fire and calling for air support. There are interviews with the pilots and the soldiers. Really intense video. I think you’ll enjoy it and see exactly why the A-10 is the last thing the enemy ever sees.
The A-10 gives troops on the ground the feeling that we aren't forgotten. It stays in the same area that we are. Combat is so terrifying that you need something.
Not only are you not taking a car " To War ", You can't pull over in a plane or helicopter. Losing systems in an aircraft are emergency situations and are dealt with accordingly.
The greatest savings was in manufacturing because they used very basic materials and structures. No fancy aerodynamics.
While canoeing in a river in Upstate NY, A warthog flew over at tree top level following the river. The pilot and I waved to each other. Back in the '60s I would be hiking in the Adirondack Mnts and see chaf which was used during testing & training.
Ft Drum is up north, not sure if those folks are responsible for what yall found in the wood's or not, but upstate New York is beautiful!...from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸👋🤠
Check out the SR-71 Blackbird! WHOA! It flies so fast that when it fires a missile it has to slow down or it will run into it. Also the entire plane is the fuel cell. At high altitude and high speed the body panels will start to contract on themselves, the the body panels have a hair line gap between them when on the ground. But at 70k feet doing 4000mph across the sky they are air tight and working perfectly. This is the plane that could not be shot down during the Vietnam War. By the time the enemy had it on radar it was already 100s of miles away. C'ya!!
This plane has its roots in the second world war thunderbolt, which was essentially a ground attack tank killer, extremely tough, fast and powerful
65 rounds per second of incendiary capable depleted uranium ammo. The gun weighs almost a ton by itself lol. This is actually not a plane, its a titanium bathtub on top of a gun with wings attached to it
The pilot is basically sitting in a titanium tube
Freedom goes brrrrrrr!
The best argument ever about it was when a totally clueless congresswoman or senator, I forget which, said it could be replaced with the B-2 bomber. As in high altitude bombing from a plane that really needs to fly at night to be as safe as possible, as being visible in the day takes away a big advantage of stealth. Luckily, John McCain, ex-navy F-4 pilot, Vietnam vet, ex-prisoner of war once held in the Hanoi Hilton, goes on to explain to her how useless her opinions are on a topic she clearly did NOT understand. The same things still happen today unfortunately. People want the F-35 to replace the Hog, but it simply can’t do it! It can’t take the abuse, can’t operate from unimproved airfields, can’t field the same gun, thus can’t fire the same ammunition, can’t operate as low at the same low speeds and remain as nimble, is limited on what it can haul and remain stealthy, as any wing mounted munitions change the radar cross section, can’t loiter on station for anywhere near the same amount of time, doesn’t have as many redundant systems, way way more expensive per unit, they already are behind schedule on production, not to mention the biggest point… if an A-10 gets shot down, the enemy gets our technology from 1970’s (yes I know there are modernizations, but I’m referring to the base of what they’ll find), but if a F-35 goes down, they get all the modern equipment, that crazy cool and expensive helmet with all its tech that lets them see “through” the plane, access to all the materials and coatings used to achieve stealth! With the amount of damage a Hog can take, and F-35 would only make it as far as the crash site!
Only the ammunition, people look over one key word in the name. DEPLETED Uranium, as in almost entirely used up as far as radioactive goes! Do you think the pilot riding with that stuff between their legs, the people on the ground around it, storing it, or loading it are immune to radiation?!? Uranium, even that which is not depleted, can be held in the palm of your hands people! It’s only dangerous if it gets into your body as your skin is enough to stop the alpha particles it’s emitting. Yes, people getting hit by it could, and that’s a BIG could, get cancer, but I seriously doubt they will die from cancer before they die from the wounds suffered from a 30mm armor piercing round or the shrapnel it produces! They have a lot bigger things to worry about at this point if the ammunition was going to give them cancer.
The GAU-8 cannon can fire 4,300 rounds per minute. Each bullet is depleted uranium, weighs 4 pounds, and is the size of a beer bottle and can penetrate 12 inches of hardened steel.
The biggest problem is the F-16 has to zoom over the battle field and can only engage a single tank on each pass. The F-16 due to low fuel load can only spend 10-15 minutes streaking over the battle field then leave the battle field to refuel loosing all site of changing armor and tactics as the A-10 can spend 45 minutes and due to speed and maneuverability detect and hit several tanks on each pass during the long stretch. The Air Force is ignorant in many choices because with restructuring Air Combat Command is now the largest portion of the Air Force and are all fighter pilots which look down on the A-10 because they see the A.F. spending a lot of money to defend and completely work for the Army and they want that money for fighter jets. They want the Army to help pay for A-10's and old ABCCC aircraft which the Air Force deleted because the Army refused to pay and support the Command and Control Aircraft.
The Warthog is a "HERO" plane!
The Uranium Projectiles penetrate armor and once inside they SPALL and kill with shrapnel and kinetic energy
I lol'd when they started saying 'oh it must be so light and so mobile' hahahahah. A-10's are a flying tank in yo' face!
I live in Pennsylvania and I fish in the Poconos quite often they do maneuvers in that area with warthogs you’ll be fishing in a nice peaceful area with the birds chirping then all of a sudden they go silent and right over the tree line one blast over-your head,, the only thing that goes through your head at that time is ,,merica!!!
With the engine set up, in an emergency, you can limp the aircraft back to base with a wing missing. There is a female pilot who did just that several years ago.
Titanium is about the weight of aluminum and strong as steel. The 30 mm rounds it fires are roughly the size of a beer bottle. 30 mm = 1.181" awesome piece of military hardware. Largely considered a flying gun. Extremely tough, reliable, dangerous airplane
My bestfreind flew the A-10 103 CT ANG and 188th Fort Smith. Great plane .. I flew the simulator in flight ops.. cool experience..
The A-10 shoots rounds the size of an 8oz Red Bull can....reread that
You have to see just how big those 30mm rounds are. Each round is huge, near the size of your forearm! They are made of depleted Uranium, which is extremely dense to penetrate thick armor
One of my best friends who just retired from the Air Force was a mechanic who worked on the F-22 raptor and the a-10 warthog.
You guys should watch a Video called. Grunts in the sky | A-10 warthog leaked footage | a short documentary. It shows the relationship between the a-10 and the soldiers in the ground.
Every time the production of the A-10. Was threatened. They lose that fight. The A-10 tank buster was a crucial life saver in Afghanistan
I dunno refrigerators built 50 years ago still work. New ones last a few years then need to be fixed.
The cockpit is made of titanium
The depleted uranium rounds are rarely used. They also turn into a plasma-like state when slicing through tank armor. So, if rounds make it all the way through the armor, the inside of the tank is sprayed with plasma, and it catches on fire.
They're not rarely used at all. Perhaps in Afghan where its primarily infantry or light vehicles as the main targets, but otherwise it most certainly is used.
@@Steamthrower1 The info I heard must have been from a specific location/conflict.
@joshuawiedenbeck6944 Most likely. It was common for A-10s in Afghan to use HEI (High Explosive Incendiary) belts only instead of the usual Combat Mix which included API (DU) rounds also. The last conflict in major use would've been Kosovo.
A tank will take more to destroy.
The A-10 uses lightweight, strong materials like Titanium for armor.
The Warthog is a flying tank with a gigantic gun! 🦅🦅🦅🦅
Did you hear about the female pilot who got back to base with one wing missing not wanting to bale out over Bagdad, the new one is well good.
Tank armor is thinnest on the top and underneath. The A-10's cannon fires a depleted uranium round that is 30 MM caliber and the planes armor is a Titanium Tub around the cockpit
2:52 It hovers or loiters over the battlefield. You can see it, which is good for morale.
Not about mobility, they fly slow and low. They are designed to eat the shots. A F-18 would do laps around it before their missile even hit
the low cost thing just means this will never be the fastest or hi tech, but it is designed to take a beating while the fancier planes are generally designed to never take a single hit
Yeah, the Sherman tank was actually pretty terrible. We just made so damn many of them, that they were effective in that way.
It's not named the ward hog. Can anyone on the internet get the name right? It's called. The A 10 Thunderbolt.2. Name after the World War 2 fighter. William s
I lived in Frankfort Germany for 3 years in the 1980’s❤
“It needs to be mobile and lightweight”
Nope. Heavy, slow and sluggish. But punches harder than you can believe.
The gatling gun can take out a tank.
Engineers are nothing without good machinists and tool makers to figure out how to make their dreams manufacturable.
I am German, 62 years old. Fulda Gap would be one of the points where NATO and the Warsaw Pact would have met. If the battle developed unfavorably, the plans included the use of nuclear battlefield weapons. The approximate average survival time of a NATO main battle tank was 4- 6 minutes given. Such an attack by the Warsaw Pact, given an unfavorable development by one of the two opponents, would almost certainly have meant the use of nuclear battlefield weapons. A further escalation would have been likely. My home country, then the Federal Republic of Germany, would have had the “very best” chance of ending up as a nuclear desert.
The Air Force never liked the A-10. It wasn't fast enough, it wasn't meant to kill enemy fighters, it is not sexy enough for the fighter pilot generals that run the Air Force. A good example of the relative likes and dislikes is that the F-22 Raptor was first deployed to the First Fighter Wing, Premiere home of new fighters. I think the F-15 Eagle also made its premiere here as well (not sure on this one). The first unit to get A-10s? Not a big important unit like the First Fighter Wing. The first unit was an Air National Guard squadron in Minnesota. Why going to a third string unit instead of a regular major Air Force unit? The generals hated it...
Yes, tanks are designed to take damage, but mostly from the front, and lesser from the sides. But the top of the turret and engine deck are far more vulnerable. In short, attacking from above can be deadly to a tank.
Loved the A10. Called them in in GWOT a few times. Best plane ever
Oh its needed n put in the garage unitil! Its needed
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger except for an A10. An A10 will just effing kill you. Brrrrrr
Depleted uranium rounds are used by multiple platforms not just the A-10
The first step in DoD weapons development is in recognizing the threat.
There was a contract competition to get this aircraft between the A-9 and the A-10. A-10 won, of course, but strangely years later the Soviets (Russians) deployed the SU-25 Frogfoot. Which looks WAY to suspiciously like the A-9. Hmmmm?
The A10 is a Titanium built aircraft which is the strongest metal on earth
I've seen one with a missile stuck in the fuselage.
A A-10 WARTHOG IS A Flying Tank!
Yall should do a video about the tomb of the unknown soldiers.
F-35 v A-10 Mercedes is nice and you can move with one, but wouldn't an old pickup be better for the damn job?
Depleted Uranium is good for AP on the battlefield, but possibly not so good men after. I have a VA C&P "phone call," appointment on March, 20 for all the hazards on a battlefield. At this point it hardly matters.
Wrong the F16 has 9 weapons stations not 11 Stattions 1,2,8,9 are for Air to Air Missiles stations 3,4, 6,7 can carry Air to ground munitions station 5 centerline can carry munitions but mainly carries an external fuel tank or ECM pod ( Electronic Counter Measures )
The guy said 11 hardpoints, not weapons stations. 2 of the 11 are for sensor pods, so you are also correct that there are 9 weapons stations.
It has been upgraded since it's conception. They were going to get rid of it but the Mariens said will take them.Like all their hand-me-downs. They were recently talking about stopping all manufacturing But then they released another updated version. Lol
The A10 is the Honey Badger of the airforce
Theres a reason A-10 werent sent to ukraine ..because that plane is unimaginable on the battlefield
the a10 is a tank its a flighing tank
The ground troops are going to hate it if they retire the A10
The A10 is a giant autocannon with an airplane built around it,.
Thank God, I think they have upgraded it and are keeping it. I hope so.
This is literally a flying machine gun!!
Cannon
Our f15 tcats are still most used
Guess where they got the titanium from? The USSR
Like your reaction and reason through how things work.
Not mobile the word you looking for is “Agile” lol a tank is definitely more durable than 99 percent of plans
You already listened to the fat electrician. You should listen to why the f-15 is the most gangster plane of all time.plus he has some other very interesting stories.and he does his homework.
allthough fighters can be used for low attacks they arent as durable and can easily be shot down at low altitudes
A 10 ain't going anywhere x❤
you guys should check out grunts in the sky
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The A-10 is not a small plane. It is larger than the F16, F22, and F35.
Slowest plane in the USAF, and the tightest turning. Leave the A-10 alone. The wings take a lesson from the fighter planes of World War II. If you hear the gun go off while your on the ground, the plane was not aiming at you. You will die before you hear gun fire.
Yes the plane will go backwards
A-10 THUNDERBOLT..not Lightening Bolt! The Cannon the A-10 has has such a High Rate of fire will CHEW THROUGH TANKS!
The gun shoots 70 rounds a second. So the pilot only needs to shoot in short burst
🤘A-10 Thunderbolt ll (Worthog)🤘
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This plane was designed specifically to stop Russian tanks.
The earlier plan was Pershing missiles carrying a neutron bomb. The Europeans vetoed that!