"Ragnar" wrote in message
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"Bill Silvey" wrote in message
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Is this a big problem with MERs on modern fighters? Was it endemic
to the A10? If so, how was it remedied?

Presumably it was remedied by not ejecting the MER with the bombs.

No idea - the narration had absolutely nothing to do with the footage in
question (they were talking about how the A10 had been transitioned to using
"Precision stand off weapons" like LGBs and Maverick-Es).

Overall it was a ... meh ... presentation. They talked and talked and
talked about the GAU-7 Avenger, but never mentioned issues with gun-gas
ingestion, and all the while they were doing the voice over, they were
showing the YA10 under construction and the installation of the
interim-for-flight-testing-only M61A Vulcan cannon - a teeny tiny little
thing compared to the mighty Avenger. This after they'd shown interview
footage wherein A10 pilots repeatedly referred to the huge size of the
Avenger and it's seven barrels! :-/

The majority of the "point" discussion was done by a fellow who's been
flying A10's since they entered the USAF inventory (or at least he had been
up until '99, when the piece was produced.)

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