Why don't fighter jets have armor like the A-10?
>>65041148what would be the point? you can't have enough armor to take a hit from anything modern without having no room for anything else, and it slows you down and makes it harder to avoid getting hit in the first place.was an early solution to a specific problem using tech of the time but totally obsolete long since
>>65041148I have this EXACT book, 90's encyclopedia's just CAN'T be beat with the artistic style, shit looks SO cool to me as a kid and even now I have to admire the technical skill of the artist both the original blueprint designer and of the rendition artist, goddamn.Also it's impractical a-10 is largly a meme, at least the gun part, it's stamina and arial denial are solid but it's paying for it with low speed and sluggish agility.
I wonder who could be behind this post
a10s were armored to protect themselves from cannons and small arms fire while they strafe entire columns of tanks. a modern air to air missile does not care about your titanium bathtub
>>65041148While not a fighter jet, the A-7 had armor panels similar to the A-10 to cover the critical components but lacked the titanium bath tub.The titanium bath tub is in itself an admission that A-10s will be lost, but they want the pilot to survive getting brrrrt'd by SPAAG and punch out.
>>65041168>90's encyclopedia'70s blows it away
>>65041148>getting hit
>>65042003That's not an A10. that's a wing long.
>>65041190>hes inside the wallsHE'S IN THE GODDAMM WALLS!
>>65042171Sure boomer
>>65042189It is though, it belonged to the UAE
>>65042220Keep copin brother
>>65041148Because they fly high and fast enough AAA isn't a major threat, the A-10 was designed to fly low and slow making AAA a threat.
>>65041148Because while the Soviets' actual manpads and spaags were shit they had a billion ZPUs and if you're flying low over them you'll end up taking a few rounds just by sheer luck and volume of fire.
>>65042590if you had half a brain you would see the IR shows it to be a single-engine craft unlike The A-10. But you're either retarded or a disingenuous shill. Either way you're wrong and stupid and brown. Given internet access to the 3rd world was a mistake.
>>65042893Oops US officials already confirmed it was A-10
>>65041337Viper's on station, your journey ends here, pilot. The skies belong to me, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
>>65042003>V-tail with super low cockpit and narrow wingsNice "A-10" bro. Why are you people so fucking bad at identifying aircraft?
>>65041148>nicknamed a "burp gun"I swear to christ I've seen claims of every single automatic firearm ever being called a burp gun but never ACTUALLY read about anything but a ppsh41 being called that by actual people in memoirs or the like
>>65042908Not that video. That's the wing long shootdown.
>>65041148posters like these are so nice, this is the type of thing that should be given to kids as pacifiers to calm them down and keep them busy
>>65042977browns don't value objective truth they just say whatever gets them what they want, language and messaging is a tool to them like meowing is to a cat. They just figure out the sounds that work best and make them incessantly.
>>65042920TF3 never ever
