ucc1q@jetson.uh.edu (A JETSON News User) (02/15/91)
From: ucc1q@jetson.uh.edu (A JETSON News User) >In article <1991Feb9.025209.29262@cbnews.att.com> t6mx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >>I just read a A-10 shot down a Iraqi fighter for the first time in history >Source: Air Force Magazine, May 1990 Almanac Issue. >"Gallery of USAF Weapons," under Attack and Observation Aircraft >pods, six AGM-65 Maverick missiles, or four AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, and >jammer pods. . . ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Recently i was watching CNN and they showed a short spot of an A10 rolling by on the taxi way before a mission. The outer Pylon had what was most certainly an air to air missle on it. I think it was a Sidewinder. The missle was long and thin, where anti-armor missles are shorter and much thicker in relation to length. Phillip Glendinning ucc1q@jetson.uh.edu
jimb@gvlv2.gvl.unisys.com (Jim Burwell) (02/21/91)
From: faatcrl!jimb@gvlv2.gvl.unisys.com (Jim Burwell) objy!prefect.Berkeley.EDU!peter@uunet.UU.NET {Peter Moore} writes: > Recently i was watching CNN and they showed a short spot of an A10 rolling > by on the taxi way before a mission. The outer Pylon had what was most > certainly an air to air missle on it. I think it was a Sidewinder. The > missle was long and thin, where anti-armor missles are shorter and much > thicker in relation to length. Hmmm. Well, if you look in last week's Time {Nov 11 ? The one with headline _The War Comes Home_ on it, with a picture of one of the Marines who died (Jenkins) in dress uniform}, there is a picture of a crew working on an A10, (mounting a Mavrick, I believe). The picture is taken from the end of the left wing, where there was a PAIR of what I'm positive are AIM-9M Sidewinders. {I had my hands all over one at a Air Show a few months ago which was mounted on the wingtip of an F-16A (Those rollerons are sure neat!!). That's until an SP kindly asked me to put the rear-stabs back together and leave the poor missle alone. :-} It's interesting that there were TWO of them, which might imply that there's a second pair on the other (right) wing, unless they balanced the other side with something of equivelent weight/drag. But it would seem like an odd thing to do, unless the particular payload it was taking up required things to be mounted that way. +--------------------------+ _ |INET: jimb@faatcrl.uucp | | \ |UUCP: ..!rutgers!faatcrl!| _| \______________________________________ | jimb | - ______ ________________ \_`,