A10 Thunderbolt Ii

Author : Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Air World
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526759290

Get Book

Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II by Peter C. Smith Pdf

A comprehensive account of the origins, design, and history of the A-10A Warthog: “Highly recommended.” —AMPS Indianapolis Includes photos The Fairchild-Republic A-10A Close Support aircraft has become a legend over its long front line life. Known as the Warthog due to her unusual appearance, this little aircraft has built up an awesome reputation in the specialized ground-attack role, where her accuracy and deadliness are widely recognized as the best of their kind. Hard lessons from World War II, which were reinforced by the bitter experience of the Vietnam War two decades later, showed it was both impracticable and cost-inefficient to use supersonic fighter jets in the close air support mission. A requirement was therefore drawn up for a plane capable of carrying a heavy and varied load of ordnance, which had good endurance and unprecedented maneuverability and could survive heavy ground fire—thus the A-10 was born. But by the time it came into service its role had changed to that of a tank-buster in the defense of Western Europe in the face of the overwhelming numbers of Soviet battle armor. With her straight wing, twin tails, and turbine engines mounted high on her rear fuselage, this single-seat aircraft certainly presented a unique appearance. But all these features served a vital role, as Peter C. Smith explains in this highly detailed study. Although the Warthog’s expected missions on the plains of Germany did not materialize, she did destroy hundreds of Soviet-built tanks during the Gulf wars. The A-10 has also flown almost continuous missions over the Balkans, against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and ISIS in Iraq and Syria. This beautifully illustrated and comprehensive volume brings the A-10’s incredible story right up to date.

Author : Ken Neubeck
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0764356704

Get Book

A10 Thunderbolt II by Ken Neubeck Pdf

The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, commonly nicknamed the "Warthog" due to its unusual and ungainly appearance, became the most effective close-air-support aircraft that has ever served for the US Air Force and Air National Guard. Designed around the GAU-8/A Avenger autocannon, the aircraft was a highly effective tank killer during Operation Desert Storm. The Warthog continues to serve, from its first appearance in 1976 through subsequent wars up to the present time, and well into the future. This concise, illustrated book covers the construction, development, and combat history of this unusual aircraft and features superb detail and combat photography. Part of the Legends of Warfare series.

Author : Steve Davies
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1785210815

Get Book

Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II by Steve Davies Pdf

Dubbed 'Warthog' - or just 'Hog' - by those who fly and maintain it, the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is the world's undisputed close air support attack jet. As tough as it is ugly, it has built a fearsome reputation as a tank buster and infantry killer in conflicts around the globe, and its GAU-8 Avenger 30mm cannon strikes fear into the hearts of all unlucky enough to be on the wrong side of it.he A-10 was clutched from the jaws of retirement by the 1991 Gulf War. At the time of the conflict, the United States Air Force was making plans to shed it's A-10 fleet, citing obsolescence and redundancy. As the ensuing conflict showed, nothing could have been further from the truth, and no other airframe could have provided the US and Coalition commanders with the sort of forward air control, close air support, combat search and rescue, and tank busting capabilities that the Hog did. Since then the A-10 has delivered capabilities to battlefield commanders in the Balkans (1990s), Afghanistan (2001 onwards) and the second Gulf War (2003 onwards), and Libya (2011). A-10s have flown around 11 per cent of Operation Inherent Resolve sorties (striking IS targets in Iraq) since combat operations began in August 2014.

Author : Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Air World
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526759276

Get Book

Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II by Peter C. Smith Pdf

A comprehensive account of the origins, design, and history of the A-10A Warthog: “Highly recommended.” —AMPS Indianapolis Includes photos The Fairchild-Republic A-10A Close Support aircraft has become a legend over its long front line life. Known as the Warthog due to her unusual appearance, this little aircraft has built up an awesome reputation in the specialized ground-attack role, where her accuracy and deadliness are widely recognized as the best of their kind. Hard lessons from World War II, which were reinforced by the bitter experience of the Vietnam War two decades later, showed it was both impracticable and cost-inefficient to use supersonic fighter jets in the close air support mission. A requirement was therefore drawn up for a plane capable of carrying a heavy and varied load of ordnance, which had good endurance and unprecedented maneuverability and could survive heavy ground fire—thus the A-10 was born. But by the time it came into service its role had changed to that of a tank-buster in the defense of Western Europe in the face of the overwhelming numbers of Soviet battle armor. With her straight wing, twin tails, and turbine engines mounted high on her rear fuselage, this single-seat aircraft certainly presented a unique appearance. But all these features served a vital role, as Peter C. Smith explains in this highly detailed study. Although the Warthog’s expected missions on the plains of Germany did not materialize, she did destroy hundreds of Soviet-built tanks during the Gulf wars. The A-10 has also flown almost continuous missions over the Balkans, against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and ISIS in Iraq and Syria. This beautifully illustrated and comprehensive volume brings the A-10’s incredible story right up to date.

Author : Steve Ladd,Steven K. Ladd
Publisher : Air World
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526761255

Get Book

From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog by Steve Ladd,Steven K. Ladd Pdf

This behind-the-scenes account of a USAF career is “an absorbing read, written with the classic humor fighter pilots seem to have” (Flight Line Book Review). From Baron von Richthofen to Robin Olds, the mystique of the fighter pilot endures. The skill, cunning, and bravery that characterizes this distinctive band of brothers is well known, but there are other dimensions to those who take to the skies to do battle that have not been given the emphasis they deserve—until now. You don’t have to be an aviation aficionado to enjoy Colonel Steve Ladd’s fascinating personal tale, woven around his twenty-eight-year career as a fighter pilot. This extremely engaging account follows a young man from basic pilot training to senior command through narratives that define a unique ethos. From the United States to Southeast Asia, Europe to the Middle East, the amusing and tongue-in-cheek to the deadly serious and poignant, this is the lifelong journey of a fighter pilot. The anecdotes are absorbing, providing an insight into life as an Air Force pilot, but, in this book, as Colonel Ladd stresses, the focus is not on fireworks or stirring tales of derring-do. Instead, this is an articulate and absorbing account of what life is really like among a rare breed of arrogant, cocky, boisterous, and fun-loving young men who readily transform into steely professionals at the controls of a fighter aircraft. “This book will appeal to a variety of readers with its Vietnam War combat stories and accounts of flying the Warthog in Cold War Europe. Fun, flying, international experiences—you won’t want to put it down.” —Aviation News

Author : Gary Wetzel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780963068

Get Book

A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002-07 by Gary Wetzel Pdf

The A-10 was never a favourite amongst the USAF's senior staff, and prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 they had attempted to transfer the aircraft to the US Army and Marine Corps. Reprieved from premature retirement, the A-10 would see combat in the Balkans during the mid-1990s and over Iraq in Operations Northern Watch and Southern Watch until Operation Iraqi Freedom began in 2003. Following the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States, the Bush administration responded with the instigation of Operation Enduring Freedom. A-10 aircraft first entered the fray during Operation Anaconda in March 2002. During Anaconda four A-10s flying from Pakistan provided 21 straight hours of FAC (A)/CAS coverage. The untold story of the A-10 in Enduring Freedom will be explored and presented as never before through first hand interviews and photography from those involved, along with official military achieves. This title is the first of three planned covering the combat experience of the USAF's A-10 Thunderbolt II units. Follow-on volumes will examine the role of the Warthog during Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Author : Dana Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : A-10 (Jet attack plane)
ISBN : 0853687722

Get Book

A10 Thunderbolt II by Dana Bell Pdf

Author : Buck Wyndham
Publisher : Koehler Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1646631587

Get Book

Hogs in the Sand: A Gulf War A-10 Pilot's Combat Journal by Buck Wyndham Pdf

"I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index finger, I can rip the turret off a thirty-ton battle tank and throw it 200 feet across the desert, while the rest of the tank burns in an explosion of white-hot, burning phosphorescence. But the cold, morbid reality of it does not exist from where I sit and watch it happen. There's no dramatic chord. No deafening explosion. No screams suddenly stifled. The soundtrack of a pilot's war is mostly silent." The mighty, iconic A-10 Warthog was first thrust into battle in Operation Desert Storm. The men who took it through walls of flak and surface-to-air missiles to help defeat the world's fourth-largest army were as untested as their airplanes, so they relied on personal determination and the amazing A-10 to accomplish their missions, despite the odds. Hogs in the Sand is the gripping journey of one of those pilots as he fights an increasingly terrifying war, all the while attempting to win over a woman and keep control of his internal demons. For anyone who has admired the Warthog, seen it in action, or called upon it to be their salvation, this story will fulfill a desire to virtually strap into the cockpit, while gaining unprecedented understanding of the mind of a modern combat pilot.

Author : John Hamilton
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781614808459

Get Book

A-10 Thunderbolt II by John Hamilton Pdf

This title explores the development and use of the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the first US Air Force aircraft specially designed for close air support of ground forces. Readers will follow the history of the aircraft, and learn its military and performance specifications, as well as its features and advantages in the field. Readers will learn about its weapon systems including general purpose bombs, cluster bomb units, laser guided bombs, joint direct attack munitions, missiles, rockets, illumination flares, and cannons. Features such as Night Vision Imaging Systems, titanium armor, self-sealing fuel cells, and hydraulic flight-control systems are detailed. The Warthog's two non-after burning turbofan engines are also covered, as are the achievements and future of this important aircraft. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : M1 (Tank)
ISBN : 1610607317

Get Book

M1 Abrams at War by Michael Green Pdf

"The impact of the M1 tank cannot be overstated; while applying lessons learned from mistakes of the past, this new tank defined tanks and armored warfare for the foreseeable future. It redefined how the U.S. Army thought, planned, trained, and fought. The M1 carried the army into an order-of-magnitude change that ran the gamut of ground warfare. The speed that the army moved across the battlefield was increased, the methods used to supply this faster-moving force were redefined and mastered, the methods used to provide supporting fire from artillery and close-air-support aircraft were redefined and mastered, and the decision-making process used by the leadership at virtually all levels was accelerated. For the first time in history, the U.S. Army had the best tank in the world. The M1 Abrams became the yardstick for foreign countries potential enemies, and friends alike, to measure the capabilities of their own tanks ... the M1 embodied what arguably may be the ultimate balance of the three classic tank design criteria - firepower, mobility, and protection"--Introduction.

Author : Bill Sweetman
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : A-10 (Jet attack plane)
ISBN : 0668060700

Get Book

A-10 Thunderbolt II by Bill Sweetman Pdf

Author : Ole Steen Hansen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736852514

Get Book

The A-10 Thunderbolt by Ole Steen Hansen Pdf

Provides an in-depth look at the A-10 Thunderbolt, with detailed cross-section diagrams, photographs, and additional facts and information.

Author : John Hamilton
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617836855

Get Book

A-10 Thunderbolt II by John Hamilton Pdf

Presents information about the A-10 Thunderbolt II, covering how it is used, its history, and its specifications.

Author : Mike Spick
Publisher : Allan
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0711017476

Get Book

A-10 Thunderbolt II by Mike Spick Pdf

Author : Phil M. Haun,Christopher E. Haave,Air University Press
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1780392761

Get Book

A-10s Over Kosovo by Phil M. Haun,Christopher E. Haave,Air University Press Pdf

First published in 2003. The NATO-led Operation Allied Force was fought in 1999 to stop Serb atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. This war, as noted by the distinguished military historian John Keegan, "marked a real turning point . . . and proved that a war can be won by airpower alone." Colonels Haave and Haun have organized firsthand accounts of some of the people who provided that airpower-the members of the 40th Expeditionary Operations Group. Their descriptions-a new wingman's first combat sortie, a support officer's view of a fighter squadron relocation during combat, and a Sandy's leadership in finding and rescuing a downed F-117 pilot-provide the reader with a legitimate insight into an air war at the tactical level and the airpower that helped convince the Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, to capitulate.