Stumbled upon this article, details on the gun and I didn't know they stopped making them in 84,,,
Every landing takes a toll, some more than others, I'd guess. I Really had a fondness for the
T 37 and got to see the A37 at the practice range and saw one land gear up on a foamed runway. Dude put it down beautifully. Cessna,I believe, designed intending to sell it as a business jet. It Looks inviting and easy to fly.
A10, OTOH, looks like a flying weapons delivery system, which it is.
A37,all dressed up and ready to fight is obviously no Party Favor, but it's not like the A10,, a 30 mm canon with wings, to send the message,and bombs, for making the point clear, should there be any confusion.
plane is not as fast and lacks the graceful lines of other fighter jets. But the Warthog, as pilots call it due to the snout-like nose, is extremely low maintenance, flies low, can practically hover over a battlefield, land almost anywhere and packs a 20-foot-long, 2.5-ton, seven-barrel Gatling gun that can fire more than 1,100 rounds of 30-mm. bullets. And a titanium shell that wraps around the bottom of its cockpit makes it difficult to shoot down.
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