Just throwing this out there

[Roboslob]

If you want a plane with a gun, you should check out the A-10, that thing means business.

[Wissam24]

Mmmmm, 100 rpm

[Spitfire23]

Originally Posted by Wissam24

Mmmmm, 100 rpm

More like 3,900 rpm now thats one powerful sucker, and to think it used to throw out 4,200

[Robotic Pope]

This Thread reminds me of that awesome Stormbirds Trailer. I cannot put into words how much I hate THQ for canceling it. Tu95 "Super Bear"?? and a fake'alike A-10 firing at 3900rpm X2!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2il99rxyQtM

[Wissam24]

Originally Posted by Spitfire23

More like 3,900 rpm now thats one powerful sucker, and to think it used to throw out 4,200

Yup....rps I meant *slaps head*

And that Stormbirds game looks like it would have been hella cool

[kozzm0]

Originally Posted by Roboslob

If you want a plane with a gun, you should check out the A-10, that thing means business.
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And the Su-25 to balance out the a-10. It's not as heavily armed but it's a bit more agile. There's some great in-cockpit combat video of them in the recent Russo-Georgian war:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXcN25Imxm4

The computer voice reminds me of realistic mode, it keeps saying "maximum angle of attack" and "danger (low) altitude" over and over again, the pilot clearly ignoring it...

Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Wow. Big fire

Yeah they're designed for carrying tanks etc. Or huge buckets of water

Doesn't mean 250,000 all at once, it counts the "black" as well as the fire itself. But it was the biggest that year... big fires like that crop up every few years in the US, mainly because of the lame-brained policy of putting out wildfires at all.

The ch-47's didn't do bucket drops, they used skycranes for that. Sikorskiys I think. What the chinooks did was drop us off in a big flat field they somehow found in the mountains, and then they dropped off MRE's there. I didn't like them. I got a sense like they were a death trap.