"Hog Driver" wrote in message ...
"Ron" wrote in message
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Smart A-10
driver won't continue uphill, instead try to keep tally and get a circle
of
hogs going.

Exactly what one of my Viper friends was faced with, going up against some
Battle Creek A-10s....Never was able to get a shot off

I have some great guncamera footage of an A-10 saddling up on a Viper who
had two full bags of gas and decided to stick with the Hog and slow
down...the A-10 driver was also tuned into the F-16s VHF air-air freq, and
the Viper driver says, "I don't believe it...I'm about to get gunned by a
Hog!" Sure enough, a few seconds later guns-track-kill by the Hog on the
floundering Viper.

Incidentally, a three-barrel lightweight version of the GAU-8/A was
developed, firing the same ammo at 2,000 rpm. It was known as the CHAG
(compact, high-performance aircraft gun IIRC) and would I expect have
been fitted to modern fighters instead of the M61 if the gun had
remained more important in air combat.

Tony Williams
Military gun and ammunition website: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk
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