Most modern fighter aircraft (one and two engine) have about .35 to .95 thrust to weight dry, and 1.0 or better for fighter with after burner in use.

The A-10 is around .35 so "two half engines", for a fighter.

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Originally posted by bendable:
I am gonna go google "target painting"

If that doesn’t produce results, google “laser designator.”

This is from the Twitter feed for Airman Magazine. It's a great video and it addresses your questions pretty well, bendable. Pilot narrative
Airman Magazine Video

And for those that care, the A-10 program just got funding to continue rebuilding their wings.

"How many more A-10s will get new wings still remains in limbo.

Air Force officials have said the service can commit to maintaining wings for six of its nine A-10 combat squadrons through roughly 2030.

"As far as exactly how many of the 280 or so A-10s that we have that we'll maintain forever, I'm not sure, that'll depend on a Department of Defense decision and our work with Congress," Holmes said.

On the exact squadron number, he clarified, "It's not a decision that we have to make right away. It'll depend on what we have, what we need and what's useful on the battlefield year-to-year as we go through it."

Of the 281 A-10s currently in the inventory, 173 have already been outfitted or are in the process of being outfitted with new wings (though one of the newly re-winged planes was destroyed in a crash), Stefanek said. That leaves 109 aircraft remaining in the inventory still slated to receive the upgrades, she said."

https://www.military.com/dodbu...any-re-wing-10s.html

I wonder how many lives, the mere presence of this aircraft over the battlefield, has saved?

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Most modern fighter aircraft (one and two engine) have about .35 to .95 thrust to weight dry, and 1.0 or better for fighter with after burner in use.

The A-10 is around .35 so "two half engines", for a fighter.

Yeah they're of the turbofan type, so no afterburners.

Great video... watch the compass to the right of the HUD when he fires the gun.

That's just an in-flight compass swing. Pay no attention to that...

We towed a trailer to Myrtle Beach every summer in the 1970s and 80s. Camped basically right at the beach just over the dunes. I used to run out for EVERY sticking one of their sortie flybys. At night, you could watch them popping flares out over the water. LOVE those planes. Always have, always will. It's my P-51 Mustang.

The finest CAS platform ever. That unmistakable banshee wail must absolutely terrify anyone about to take rounds from that monster.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
That's just an in-flight compass swing. Pay no attention to that...

Seems like a little vibration there.

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Originally posted by M-11:
And for those that care, the A-10 program just got funding to continue rebuilding their wings.

"How many more A-10s will get new wings still remains in limbo...

In my best Clarence the angel voice: "Every time a Haji terrorist asshole cries, an A-10 get its wings!"

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Originally posted by saigonsmuggler:

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Most modern fighter aircraft (one and two engine) have about .35 to .95 thrust to weight dry, and 1.0 or better for fighter with after burner in use.

The A-10 is around .35 so "two half engines", for a fighter.

Yeah they're of the turbofan type, so no afterburners.

They are incredibly fuel efficient and much better performers down low. Also, the actual air inlet to the compressors is tiny compared to most fans I've seen and therefore much less likely to FOD out at the expense of not having nearly as good an ability to take in the thin air at altitude.

An interesting story about the A-10 being developed with help from a German WWII ace....

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...-forgotten-nazi-past

IMO, there is much German Ordinance we could have used during Korean War.

just a wee bit of compass shake...amazing that it stays on the pin

glad they are funding the wing replacement program

I watch them fly in and out of DM every day

love 'em

if they can re-engine a B52, they can re-wing an A-10

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Originally posted by r0gue:
We towed a trailer to Myrtle Beach every summer in the 1970s and 80s. Camped basically right at the beach just over the dunes. I used to run out for EVERY sticking one of their sortie flybys. At night, you could watch them popping flares out over the water. LOVE those planes. Always have, always will. It's my P-51 Mustang.

MB AFB closed 20+ years ago, another victim of BRAC. I went down there 30+ years ago with my ANG wing, loaded our A-10s with live Mk 82s there.

From the video:
SHIV is the call sign,
"low-speed -- high drag"

Love it.