http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/politics/air-force-f-35-vs-a-10-showdown/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/politics/air-force-f-35-vs-a-10-showdown/index.html)
The disconcerting statement was well, we expect the F-35 to win because the A-10 can't dogfight.....because we know how often the A-10 has to dogfight, right Keefe?
Whoa whoa whoa...
A Warthog got an Air-Air kill in the Storm:
As Swain described Wednesday's episode to pool reporters, the pilot of the observation plane, Capt. Jon Engle, confirmed that the black dots were helicopters. Swain took off in pursuit. One chopper peeled off to the north and escaped. The other headed south, with the A-10 on its trail.
Swain said his AIM-9 heat-seeking missile would not lock onto the small target racing 50 feet above the desert floor. So he switched to the seven-barrel, 30-millimeter cannon mounted in the nose of his plane.
"I started firing about a mile away," Swain said. "Some of the bullets ran through him, but we weren't sure if it was stopped completely. So I came back with the final pass, hit it and it fell apart.
"On the final pass, I shot about 300 bullets at him. That's a pretty good burst. On the first pass, maybe 75 rounds. The second pass, I put enough bullets down, it looked like I hit with a bomb.
"We tried to ID the helicopter after we were done and it was just in a bunch of little pieces, so we can't tell what type it was."
F#cking great, baby!
So, as of now, the Hawg has more combat kills than the 35 and as the 35 IOC keeps getting pushed back it could be years before that POS ever gets off the ramp.
Full story:
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-02-08/news/mn-937_1_air-combat