Combat Aircraft Mega Thread

[Becquerel]

Mmm yeaah

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WOAH
DAMN THATS loveY

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[tnatsissA]

WOAH
DAMN THATS loveY

[Ragequit]

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what the forget

[tnatsissA]

what the forget

There is a stuff ton of this SFW plane research all over R34 and E6. It boggles me that people actually fap to this.
Well, other's have fapped to worse stuff. So this isn't all bad.
A plane is a plane mang. 

[newspeed12]

There is a stuff ton of this SFW plane research all over R34 and E6. It boggles me that people actually fap to this.
Well, other's have fapped to worse stuff. So this isn't all bad.
A plane is a plane mang. 

People will fap to anything. Some people fap to dead cats covered in maggots.

[Maxwell.]

harrier

[Harm94]

But do the planes before the cold war have a motherloving 30 MM GATLING GUN?

P39 Aircobra

37mm cannon

ME-262

4 30mm autocannons

this one has a 50mm autocannon

All of these planes are pre-cold war. Armed with fancy spinning barrel gun? No, same or large caliber? Yes.

Now as for the cold-war era A-10. It was designed a dedicated close air support aircraft for the USAF. In a shooting war between the Warsaw PACT and NATO most of the A-10's would have been shot down within a week. What really makes it a tank killer is not the 30mm gun, but the Guided Mavericks and Rockeye II cluster bombs. That 30mm gun is a peashooter against modern armor, however it would have devastating  
to older tanks such as the T-55, light vehicles such as trucks, and lesser vehicles such as BMPs.

Warsaw PACT on the other hand was more than prepared for NATO airpower.

RADAR based systems(flares are useless here)
Meet the 9K33 Osa(SA-8 Gecko)

It is mounted to an amphibious TEL and can hit targets out to 12 meters. Carries 6 missiles with a 15km range Widely exported.

2K12 Kub(SA-6 Gainful)

Tracked TEL, 20KM missile, widely exported

9K37 Buk(SA-11 Gadfly/SA-17 Grizzly)

Upgrade to the KUB. Tracked TEL, has about a 38 KM range

ZSU-23-4 Shilka/Biryusa

SPAAG, four radar-guided 23mm autocannons. Widely exported.

9K22 Tunguska

Spaag, two twin radar guided 30mm autocannons and 8 Radio command Missiles with 8km range.

9K330 Tor

8 Missiles 20Km range, OSA replacement

Infared
Strela-10M

4 missiles loaded, IR guided 5km range. Additional rockets are stowed in the hull. Widely exported.

[Becquerel]

People will fap to anything. Some people fap to dead cats covered in maggots.

kinky

[Swat 3]

YF-23. Best stealth fighter ever IMO.

looks lovey

got a freedom boner looking at its exhaust and rudders
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[Pwnon]

yeah, you're forgeted when a 105mm shell is headed your way

AC-130 "spooky"

3spook7u

[e-maxx]

[Maxwell.]

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yeah, you're forgeted when a 105mm shell is headed your way

AC-130 "spooky"

3spook7u

so is that a flying tank

[Dragonslayer182]

-Wall-

But do their guns fire at 4200 rounds per minute and STILL be highly accurate?

[Alkatjo]

This thing is the definition of a rocket without jet fuel.

[Harm94]

But do their guns fire at 4200 rounds per minute and STILL be highly accurate?

The thing with guns is that you are strafing with the A-10, you are probably getting 1 or 2 seconds to burst at a target as you are flying over. The Vulcan has a pretty narrow firing cone just like any gun, you might get a few more projectiles lodged into whatever you are shooting at. But aircraft guns for CAS planes are mostly used for strafing convoys and soft targets like unarmed or lightly armored vehicles(apcs, armored cars, reconnaissance vehicles, ifvs) and maybe a location where infantry might be.

If you want to bust a single tank, a guided missile like a Maverick will be used. If want to kill many tanks either multiple mavericks would be fired at sighted armor, or cluster bombs would be dropped. For infantry and anything else hydra pods and iron bombs would be used. Basically the A-10's gun is a bit overrated and the gun isn't the end all be all of CAS.

A-10 is a good CAS plane though, it brings a lot to the fight and can loiter in the air for awhile. However it is definitely showing its age.

yeah, you're forgeted when a 105mm shell is headed your way

AC-130 "spooky"

3spook7u

Incredibly useless in a conventional war.