10-02-2018, 04:34 PM
(10-02-2018, 03:09 PM)Dill Wrote: Yes.
Reminds me of this. Capt. Kim Campbell, April 7, 2003. Shot to hell on a ground support mission in Iraq. Lost computerized control of guidance/steering, which left the aircraft heading towards Baghdad. But the A-10 evidently has a secondary manual system of levers and pulleys a pilot can use. She did--turned the plane around and landed safely on base.
Yeah, I think the titanium armoring around the cockpit on an A-10 is rated for something like armor piercing 20+mm fire. Also designed to be able to fly missing an engine and half of a wing. It's pretty absurd.
Meanwhile the F-35 is vulnerable to being downed by 7.62 fire from an AK if it flies low, so it will literally never be doing that because nobody will risk losing their $120m fighter to small arms fire.
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