The Vintage Planes, Trains and Automobiles Picture Show

It’s all about survivability , an A10 will be very good against lightly armed insurgents .

A man with a Stinger will destroy an A10 very, very easily . That’s why the Harriers went

A Stinger will find it very hard to lock on to an F35

It’s all about survivability

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Thank you @Ian2001! You actually reminded me of what I forgot! A-10 should be used where air superiority has already been achieved in the theatre. Not as lone wolf being sitting ducks to surface-to-air missiles.

As per the attached paper, the strategy is to start with destroying all anti-aircraft weapons, enemy aircrafts. Then air interdiction - air-to-ground engagement of all command, control, communication hubs and known military installations. Then finally, ground troops with CAS.

That’s all very well against traditional enemies. Wasn’t the strategy in Afghanistan, for example.

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There have been seven A10 combat losses and accidents. It would appear that one, or maybe two, were due to hand held AA missiles, one Igla definite. Considering the hours they have flown, that seems a good return.

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Yes, and the hours on the air frame, in many ways their success has followed on from the success of the Skyraider in Vietnam .

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From the last Farnborough Air Show

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Detail of the Wellington geodetic structure, Brooklands

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Is this the Vickers Wellington?

Another beautiful aircraft from The Shuttleworth Collection. De Haviland Comet. I never get tired of taking photographs of this aircraft, it has a real character.

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Yes

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French Sepecat Jaguar. Damaged by a SAM 7 missile on the first day of Desert Storm attacking the Al Jaber airbase in Kuwait. Daylight raid at ultra low level.

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Wow, the Jaguar survived with so much damage. According to Wikipedia, this would be one of the 3 damaged (and they all made it back). :+1:

On 15 January 1991, 12 French Jaguars bombed Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait; three were damaged in the attack but all returned to base.[32]

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPECAT_Jaguar

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Why couldn’t F-35, F-22, the eurofighter, etc look nearly as good as de Havilland DH.88 Comet or Supermarine Spitfire or Mustang? I know the reason why but still wish they could. Even the Sea Harrier was a looker. Nothing to do with True Lies, ok?! :smiley:

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Well this looks pretty good, it hangs in the air in the way a brick doesn’t (and played havoc with the metering on the camera ) (funny that )

It is anything but vintage

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I wonder if the inspiration of the B-2 came at dinner time while making ravioli. :joy:

Javelin FAW.9R of No. 23 Squadron loaded with de Havilland Firestreak infrared-homing air-to-air missiles.

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Minus ten points to all of you that said ‘Spitfire.’

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Seafire?

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That maybe the scariest In car video I’ve ever seen.

As noted above, mounting a camera low down does greatly emphasise the feeling of speed - and also bearing in mind a camera vehicle was doing reverse shots at the beginning.

An interesting point for me is how different Monaco is sans all the barriers and other racing facilities - the cost to install & adapt must be enormous. I’d love to get behind the economics of F1 and how holding a race in a venue like this makes ‘sense’.

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