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CAMike

CAMike

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Three Hundred Fifty cc's of pure fun. I'm referring to the volume of those 30mm DU rounds coming out of the front end of the A-10.
 
Max the Mad Russian

Max the Mad Russian

Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Let it be here

Gents, in Osprey book about A-10 Hog units in OEF I have read that in 354th EFS deployed in Afghan in 2007 there was USN LtCdr on exchange tour who was, quote (p.86): "former SH-60B Seahawk AND EA-6B Prowler pilot". Is that common to change rotary to fixed in NAVAIR and then undertake exchange tour within USAF or is it quite rare experience?
 
Flash

Flash

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Max the Mad Russian said:
Let it be here

Gents, in Osprey book about A-10 Hog units in OEF I have read that in 354th EFS deployed in Afghan in 2007 there was USN LtCdr on exchange tour who was, quote (p.86): "former SH-60B Seahawk AND EA-6B Prowler pilot". Is that common to change rotary to fixed in NAVAIR and then undertake exchange tour within USAF or is it quite rare experience?
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I actually knew him. Both are uncommon but are a normal option with a handful of slots each, to do both he was pretty lucky but it was more about timing than anything else especially for the A-10 thing. For him he was in the right place in the right time and was good enough to get the billets he got.
 
Max the Mad Russian

Max the Mad Russian

Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Thank you Flash, really looks like a statement of success;-)
In any case, it's like a rollercoaster - from pure NA world in helicopters to NFO-dominated Prowler community and back to TACAIR in USAF's A-10s. I like the old Hog drivers' joke from Germany: "you can kill all MiGs aloft but if, when you land, there will be little dirty Russian tank driver who eats your sandwich and drinks your beer - all that kills were in vain". Why USN had not developed something like Hog for carrier air wings?
 
Flash

Flash

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Max the Mad Russian said:
Thank you Flash, really looks like a statement of success;-)
In any case, it's like a rollercoaster - from pure NA world in helicopters to NFO-dominated Prowler community and back to TACAIR in USAF's A-10s. I like the old Hog drivers' joke from Germany: "you can kill all MiGs aloft but if, when you land, there will be little dirty Russian tank driver who eats your sandwich and drinks your beer - all that kills were in vain". Why USN had not developed something like Hog for carrier air wings?
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Tanks aren't much of a threat to ships. The A-10 was a unique 'niche' aircraft that was built for a specific threat, one the Navy would only encounter peripherally in addition to many other missions that are a much more direct threat to us.
 
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A-10 was designed for a very specific Cold War threat: Russian tanks in the Fulda gap. During the Cold War the Navy's focus wasn't on the land war in Europe.
 
Max the Mad Russian

Max the Mad Russian

Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Ok gents, thanks a lot. Yet it seems to me that A-6Es, for example, up to 1986 had done very little that can be considered as something totally different from what Hogs did. Another truth is that you both are right, naval tactical air had had another tasking for daily routine. Again, was that change in theatres and styles of warfare that Navy faced in 1991, lacking precise weapon and its platforms for land targets' pounding, as unpredictable as it seems now?
 
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