What is Your Favorite Ground Support Aircraft?

[AbsntMndedProf]

My favorite would be the A-10 Thunderbolt:



(When the modern mod for CL comes out, I hope it includes this beast! )

Eric Maietta

[U2]

Hi

I agree, the A-10 is a real monster in close support on the battlefield.

Dan

[CCB]

Do helicopters count as 'ground support aircraft'?

[U2]

Originally posted by CCB
Do helicopters count as 'ground support aircraft'?

We'll make an exception just for you CCB:)

Dan

[CCB]

Apache!

[showboat1]

The A-1 Skyraider. Talk about bang for your buck.

[Frank W.]

P47D

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

How about one that shows up in time and attacks the enemy not you heheh.

I never use air support in my games any more eh, not
since those Stukas chewed up my guys.

[scimitar]

Henschel 123...

[rockymtndoc]

Either the A-10 Warthog or the AH-64 Apache.

[Bernard]

A10
or IL2. Always loved russian planes and tanks of WW2.

best regards.

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

I like Spooky.

A Herc and all that totally massive concentrated firepower.

Death incarnate under one of those birds.

It puts the support in the support aircraft.

If Spooky can't get it, then you should have sent in B52s in the first place.

[Bernard]

Originally posted by Les the Sarge 9-1
I like Spooky.

A Herc and all that totally massive concentrated firepower.

Death incarnate under one of those birds.

It puts the support in the support aircraft.

If Spooky can't get it, then you should have sent in B52s in the first place.

Is spooky this HERCULES 130 full of Gattling 20mm guns ?
And Magic Puff the Dragaon was the same in a C47 Dakota ?

best regards

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

You got it man.

In full bore action it looks like fiery death in the form of a laser scapel. Nothing lives under spooky, run hide it doesn't matter.

[Ross Moorhouse]

Patterned after the Sopwith Snipe, the Sopwith Salamander had an armor plated fuselage and was developed for use as a ground attack aircraft. The war ended before it entered service.

[Bernard]

Originally posted by Les the Sarge 9-1
You got it man.

In full bore action it looks like fiery death in the form of a laser scapel. Nothing lives under spooky, run hide it doesn't matter.

i have a picture in some book of Puff the dragon firing while turning, taken with Infrared .... impressive. Footnote gives stats like : area covered in x seconds of fire, total weight fired.... Wow.

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

I think it was something like a round in every square inch of a football field in under just seconds.

God I wouldn't want that firing AT me.

[Grumbling Grogn]

Originally posted by Ross Moorhouse


Patterned after the Sopwith Snipe, the Sopwith Salamander had an armor plated fuselage and was developed for use as a ground attack aircraft. The war ended before it entered service.

Hmmm... I have read a book or two that say it flew. One in particular ("Flying Minnows") is an autobiographical book about a pilot that flew Bristol Fighters (another excellent aircraft of the war) and he mentioned several times seeing Salamanders in flight over the front (at least I think he did ).

[Grumbling Grogn]

The Ju 87 Stuka started it all IMHO (i.e. the ability to accuractely divebomb a target).

[The MSG]

The Il-102, the tank that flew!

http://www.suchoj.com/andere/index.htm? ... home.shtml

http://www.military.cz/russia/air/iljus ... il_102.htm

http://legion.wplus.net/guide/air/s/il102.shtml

http://avia.russian.ee/air/russia/il-102.html

http://www.airwar.ru/enc_e/attack/il102.html

Competing prototype against the Su-25, but it lost, wonder why?;)