BF2S Forums video of an A-10 killing a tank with only his cannon ??

The problem for most of these maps is the size, you can't hardly line up a long enough run on a target on most maps, since that gimpass throttle control requires you to floor it the whole time, this reason alone is enough to boost the power of the A-10 as it would be balanced by it's susceptibility to AA, since it's also supposed to be fairly slow in RL, though I admit I haven't had much of a chance to practice flying, every time i find an empty server it fills up, I can understand them lowering the .50 cal damage, but it would be nice if you could kill tanks with a tank killer


BTW, the GAU is powerful enough that it actually slows the A-10 when it fires, and yes, the normal loadout is cluster bombs for infantry and light mechs, maybe a couple of laser guided, and the cannon is considered the main weapon

Lockman wrote:

The bottom of the plane was design to survive belly landings (no landing gear)

Just as an FYI, this is kinda true, the bottom is reinforced but the big thing that's been designed into the plane to allow it to make a good belly landing is the fact that the main gear retract only about 1/3 of the way into the wheel wells so they stick out during flight. 
So, if the pilot needs to make a deadstick landing (no hydraulic pressure) and can't get the gear down when he touches down the main gear will still cushion the bottom of the aircraft.  Assuming that he's landing on tarmac and not an unimproved airstrip. 

But yeah, I love the A-10, if I didn't have asthma I would be flying that fucker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFDu5AmK … search=a10

I was watching the Military channel one time about the A-10 the gun on the A-10 has some much recoil that if u kept firing it , it would bring the jet to a stop and it has like 13000 rounds of ammo to and i think it fires 20mm or 30mm bullets it can take down a tank in a burst of bullets and can withstand alot of damage in DC it was awesome even tho i dont have AF im going to get it soon but anyway ive seen an A-10 up close at an airshow that Cannon is massive its the biggest cannon ever put into a jet and the sound it makes when u shoot the cannon is awesome i heard that the iraqis would surrender when they heard the cannon before it even started to fire they where that afraid hence the nick name "TankBuster"

Last edited by ?? (2006-06-11 17:57:44)

i know for a fact that te A-10 has only 14 seconds worth of fire but if went through that all at once the gun would melt off

The whole plane was built around the cannon, and it has no trouble destroying a tank in one pass. (It shreds it heh)

For anyone interested, you can dl a documentary on the A10 here:
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/26952 … Tankbuster