Posted on Jul 5, 2018
The Air Force Considered Turning the A-10 Warthog into a Nuclear Bomber
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Fast-moving Fighter Jets would have trouble escaping the aftermath of these massive explosions. On a nuclear mission, the Air Force expected its fighter pilots to fly toward their targets at altitudes greater than 30,000 feet before lobbing bombs at the enemy. With the bombs flying in an upward arc onto the target, the method would hopefully give the aircraft enough time to fly clear of the blast. But it’d still be a close call. The slower A-10s probably wouldn’t make it.
The Air Force Considered Turning the A-10 Warthog into a Nuclear Bomber
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Their minds must have been in their rear ends when came up with that idea.
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That's unusual...I hadn't seen that, though I might well.perceive their reasoning, weird as that might sound....
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Capt Daniel Goodman
and I'd told.you guys, they were built right up the street from us...I met one of their system ofc guys before I'd gone to USAF OTS, for an hour or two, set up by the recruiters...the school I went to was right next door to them (the school site is a Wal-Mart now, which obv totally stinks, of course, though that was done a.long while ago, obv, I get wistful every time I drive past the site, honest...the company was about a block.away where the planes were built)....
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