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To: epsteinbd who wrote (6483)	10/7/2001 7:10:57 PM
From: nolimitz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

A-10 Warthog, Air guard here has around 20 of em. Quite impressive. I haven't heard of any there yet. B1, B2, Cruise missles and one other plane I dont recall which but A10 would have stuck if I had heard it.

To: epsteinbd who wrote (6483)	10/7/2001 8:13:08 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 27666

Well, that I do not recall. The basic design was an afterthought to the F-111 during VietNam. I was not involved in the design, I was an engineer on the construction. Prior I was on the program that defined the present day GPS system, since the A-10 I was on the programs that involved guidance systems for missiles and such. Been out of it since the late 1980s. In 1980ish, we could put a missile 14 miles through an object the size of a pumpkin. By 1988, we could hit an orange. So, when Desert Storm had stuff going merely through windows I had the sense it was equipment cluttering up the shelves. Then you add to that the A-10, which was designed 16 or so years earlier, and you wondered what the U.S. could really have done if we wanted to.

To: epsteinbd who wrote (6483)	10/7/2001 8:24:01 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Do you believe some are already around Afghanistan ? Missed that question, sorry. It's an old machine, it probably is there or will be. It's an Anti-Tank plane. Close Support for ground troops. We could not possibly have a lot, because we only made just about 220 of 'em and some were lost in Desert Storm. But it's a great troop support airplane. You take an F-16, it strafes. It starts in.....I don't know where you live, let us say you live in New Jersey here. You strafe in Newark and you turn around. By the time you turn around you are in the Long Island Sound off Connecticut. On the other hand, you are in an A-10. You strafe at the tee of a long par five and you turn around after the green. Now that's a Ground Support Aircraft. Of course, you need a TomCat or a Nighthawk or a F-16 to cover you but your infantry is happy as hell.