LRRPF52 Wrote:I love the GAU-8. When the A-10 was still in testing at Edwards before we left for Germany, my dad brought me home a full 30mm cartridge for it. I don't know if it was a dummy round or what, but I got it stuck in my Millenium Falcon through the top gun turret...used it as a handle to fly the Falcon with. I was ticked when my dad said he needed to return it to the A-10 Combined Test Force. They used to practice battle damage repairs on the A-10 by taking sledge hammers to it and going ballistic on it like a pack of banshees, then repair it.Hehe! A big plus 1. The Falcon might be the only thing cooler than the Warthog in the 'Verse in my book.LOL
A-10 = all kinds of win. Yes, we should have A-10's on standby with grids to virus spreaders uploaded to their target prioritization scheme. I'd hate to be in the neighborhood though...
I've called in A-10's and watched in amazement as they made metal-to-metal contact with the GAU-8 on tanks in Yakima. One burst is like a lifetime of July 4th's wrappped into one climactic barrage of doom.
We got to play with them at Shaw and up at Cold Lake in Alberta. They rule!
I was in "Hitler Youth Corps" (Civil Air Patrol) when I was a kid and I wanted to be a hog driver, and hopefully the next version of Hans-Ulrich Rudel (without the Nazi part of course!) but I figured out I wasn't disciplined/mature enough then to actually buckle down for more school past high school at that age. I had to go enlisted instead. Now that I'm buckled down-- I'm too old!LOL
Hans-Ulrich Rudel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel (who even had input into the A10...)