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What is Your Favorite Ground Support Aircraft?
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 11:10 pm
by 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
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 11:11 pm
by U2
Hi
I agree, the A-10 is a real monster in close support on the battlefield.
Dan
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 1:19 am
by CCB
Do helicopters count as 'ground support aircraft'?
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 4:17 am
by U2
Originally posted by CCB
Do helicopters count as 'ground support aircraft'?
We'll make an exception just for you CCB:)
Dan
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 4:21 am
by CCB
Apache!
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 7:10 pm
by showboat1
The A-1 Skyraider. Talk about bang for your buck.
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 7:38 pm
by Frank W.
P47D
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 7:59 pm
by 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.
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 10:18 pm
by scimitar
Henschel 123...
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 10:21 pm
by rockymtndoc
Either the A-10 Warthog or the AH-64 Apache.
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 12:46 am
by Bernard
A10
or IL2. Always loved russian planes and tanks of WW2.
best regards.
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 12:51 am
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 3:05 am
by 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
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 3:38 am
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.
Sopwith Salamander
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:15 am
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 1:07 am
by 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.
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 1:27 am
by 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.
Re: Sopwith Salamander
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 8:09 pm
by 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
).
The Ju 87 (Stuka) started it all
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 8:11 pm
by Grumbling Grogn
The Ju 87 Stuka started it all IMHO (i.e. the ability to accuractely divebomb a target).
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 8:29 pm
by The MSG
