U.S. A-10 Warplane Shot Down Near Baghdad

Fox News ^ | Tuesday, April 08, 2003 | N/A

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[ArrogantBustard]

Wow. That's not easy to do. Glad the pilot's OK.

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[HamiltonJay]

I am glad the Pilot is ok, but taking out a Warthog is not that hard to do, they are low flying slow vehicles, and are vulnerable... they are tough birds and can take a lot of damage and still fly, but they are not even close to indestructable. I suspect we'll see a few more of these as we mop up Baghdad.. THere is a lot of AA stuff still floating around that city, we may control good parts of it, but it is not conquered and quelled yet.

[thinktwice]

military officials "believe it was hit by surface-to-air missile fire."

"Roland" surface to air missiles, a French product, are known to be held by Iraqi forces.

[ArrogantBustard]

Sorry 'bout that. I guess if you want to be an "embed" when we go after Syria, or whoever, you'll have to visit the website on your own...

[CFC__VRWC]

Wow, Tiny Tommy's really juiced by this story, isn't he?

[hosepipe]

Ah! Hah!....BAIT!...

[demosthenes the elder]

they knocked down a WARTHOG?
wow - someone got in a lucky shot.

[kissthis]

Roland is actually cosidered a "NATO" weapon with minor differences between the French, German, and US versions. I worked on Roland test sets here in the US in the early eighties.

The real question at hand should be why the French were selling their version of a NATO weapon to Iraq????

[skeeter]

I wonder if this was the same guy Fox was showing from an Al Jazeera feed last night. He was flying pretty low, manuevering radically & dropping a ton of flares but I didn't see him get hit.

[Jonx6]

There was a A-10 on FNC yesterday live that was making some evasive maneuvers while popping out a couple salvos of flares like a heat seeker was after him. The same flare footage was replayed several times. I think it was one of the Middle East network feeds.

[strela]

The Golden BB got him. Bummer, but it happens when angry men lob high explosives at light airframes.

[ibtheman]

Actually an A-10 flies slow, and at low altitudes. And using a surface to air missle makes it quite easy to ssoot one down!

[demosthenes the elder]

easy to hit, perhaps (it does have countermeasures, and if it is really all that low... obstacles may get in the path of the missile, and the launcher has less preptime)
easy to swat out of the sky is quite another matter. those things are not quite flying tanks, but DAMN are they ever close.

[demosthenes the elder]

money. duh.

[kissthis]

Really??? I thought they might have traded some sand for them.

Point is... that the French, not to mention NATO and the UN, are no longer to be trusted. Toss them all on the heap of the irrevelant, in cause, by their association with socialism.