"..the fuselage was really just a massive 30mm rotary cannon, with a cockpit stuck on top of it."

As a FO, I will say, the A10 is a LIFE SAVER. THANK YOU WHOMEVER SAVED 3RD BATTALION SEVENTH MARINES. We lost Christian Porter, but it could have been worse without that one pilot. Haven't heard anything about from the media, after all, it was a FFD. Brian Lang as well. RIP brothers, the rest of us will join you soon enough. Semper fi

I was at DM in the late 70s as a load toad on the A-10A. We sent some birds to Red Flag, they racked up 4 Air to Air kills in a single mission. Five aggressors in F-5Es saw a flight of four A-10s flying in the weeds through a low mountain pass. They dove straight down on them. The problem for the aggressors? The A-10 pilots saw them start their dive, opened those barn door sized speed breaks and the aggressors leveled out right in front of those guns. Two of the F-5s broke right, 2 to the left and one max climbed on burner. The A-10 didn't carry Sidewinders back then so that one was the only one to get away. It only takes 11 frames of the gun camera to score a confirmed kill at Red Flag. One of our pilots had his target in the kill zone for over 150 frames. Yeah, you can out run the plane, but not the gun.

This was my father-in-law"s idea Col Michael Mecca first generation Italian. He won in his career the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), Sliver Star, and a few others. He was engineer going into military in WWII. He volunteered to be the first combat helicopter pilot in the Koren War. During the time he pull out a company of soldiers trapped in a river while they were being attack by Battalion of Chinese and Koran soldiers on the other side of the river. He spent over eight hours back and forth pulling them out with his helicopter, the only helicopter, while taking incoming fire the entire time, which resulted in the helicopter being completely shot up He flew combat planes, jet, test pilot, designs. I think he came up later with A-10 out of that experience. As you can see the A-10 design protects the pilot, which he had none during his missions, and supports the ground troops. So the he designed specially the "box" to protect the pilot so that they couldn't get shot by ground fire and, and the weapons systems for the plane. I have some of the original test firing of the 30mm "nuke" shells and the steel targets that they were tested on and a couple of the original design models of the A-10 which actually his grandson has now. He and his wife are buried in Arlington Cemetery with full honors. He was a super intelligent, kind, unassuming, and brave man that I felt deserved a mention at this time and was appropriate. He served his country with distinction!

Have always wished the A 10 been there when I was in Vietnam.

I was a medic for an infantry platoon in a remote place in Afghanistan. I never felt so safe as when we had A10s on station. It also felt pretty good to have Spector gun ships around too.

When the A-10s first went to Eielson AFB, AK, back in the early '80s, a pair of F-15 drivers from Anchorage decided to jump a pair of Warthogs out on the range. Big mistake. The A-10s flew low and slow and outmaneuvered the 15s at every turn. The hotshot 15 drivers found themselves looking at the wrong end of a Gatlin gun everywhere they turned.

How the a 10 warth hog can win a dogfight? Pilot: "and the gun goes brrrrrrr"

So you basically summed the A10 up as a Marine Trained to be a crayon eater but versatile enough to survive just about anything

Don’t get into a low energy, knife fight with an A-10. Just use zoom and run attacks against it.

Never fight the enemy on their turf, is basically the motto here. The best sniper can be killed if they go up against a UFC champion.

The A10 can take on high speed opponents the same way the Harrier did - bring the high speed opponents down to their low altitude were both the A10 and Harrier have the turning fight advantage .

as a former Infantryman, I love the A-10 and every grunt in the last 40 years probably agrees.

I can attest to the ability of the A-10 to rapidly turn a Defensive position into an Offensive one. As a USAFE Aggressor pilot flying the F-5E I flew against pilots from RAF Bentwaters and was only able to get a couple of fleeting "Snapshots" while most times having to break off my attack to prevent the A-10 from getting its nose on me.

My Dad worked for Fairchild Republic and was a technical writer on the flight manual for the A10. He never lived long enough to see it in action, passing in 1987. He was so proud of the "Warthog"

Every warplane ever: Noooooo you can't just use a ground attack plane for a dogfight and win A10: haha gun go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

I am now a retired Air Force vet. In all my years working aircraft maintenance my all time favorite plane has always been the A-10. The best 2 years of my Air Force career were spent out at Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson AZ. The A-10 is a fantastic plane and everyone that I talked to about it loved the plane. I am very happy that it won't be retired anytime soon. The A-10 is the strong, silent type. It comes in, puts out, and goes home time after time after time and does it very well.

A-10's have been my favorite jet sine I was a kid, it looks beautiful to me and I like the mission's it's built to be used for. If I was able to fly any plane I would easily choose the A-10.

I wrote the A-10 into my alternative history series (The Fighting Tomcats). In my world, they are navalized with folding wings. I've wrote a dog fight between a German ME-262 and an A-10. The A-10 stayed in the weeds and pulled its nose on target. By-by Messerschmitt. One thing about facing a fast mover when your in a Wart Hog. The higher you are AGL, the more vulnerable you are. Your opponent can slash and dash. On the deck, the enemy has to get in the same turn plane.

I marked targets once for an A10 live fire range, and it was hilariously fun to see them come over the ridge upside down and wave, then roll and fire. Very cool. I love the A10. In combat, I had specter which was awesome too.

Me at the Ocean City Air Show 2021: Came for the Raptor, looked like a fan boy for the A-10.

Just those photos of A10s riddled with bullet holes safely landed on the ground was reason enough for me to like this video.

I’ll say it again, “HAWGS” rule.

AWESOME! Colonel Bob Swain was with our 706th Fighter Squadron, 926th Fighter Group from New Orleans. We love our WartHogs and our Pilots. Made us damned proud! Not cocky, but PROUD! Tony Molero

Like you mention, not the A-10's lane, and a lot of if's have to happen. But if an enemy fighter ever got sloppy or greedy, and tried to engage an A-10 on equal terms in a low-speed turning energy fight, the A-10 wins. But the pilot would have the warning "deedle" going off the entire time, as they pulled that nose around aggressively and bleeding speed - but a small price to pay to come out on top.

Dude your videos are brilliant. There’s a lot of military channels on YT that really are all just the same version of one another and not really much of any substance or recycled takes. But then there’s your channel. Every video has been so thoroughly researched and well written, you have a bright future here mate. I’m just glad I’m here from the start. Keep grinding brother! Only great things to come!

I don’t want to be that guy but…. Radar cross section and BVR engagement means no chance to go BRRRRTTTT

Bird-strikes....from behind....that made me smile :)

Go watch either Growling Sidewinder or Grim Reapers flying A10's against fighters in DCS World. The Warthog is not to be messed with.

There's actually a video floating around on youtube of a A-10 vs a Belgium F-16. And the A-10 just stomped it in a dogfight. Both pilots had over +500 hrs in their respective aircraft too so it wasn't like a rookie pilot vs a vet. And the F-16 pilot can be heard complaining how he can't really do anything against the A-10 and is sorta locked in a losing turn battle. It's very interesting to watch.

Hell, if a F15E can take out a chopper with a GBU-10, it'd be a cakewalk to dogfight an A10.

I just love our ugly jet.It's a flying can of whoopass!

I'm loving how your channel is growing at this rate. About a week or 2 you were at 9k when I subbed and you're now encroaching 12k. Well done mate ♥️

Absolutely spot on. Great analysis. In a dog fight it isn't always about speed and altitude. You stated it perfectly. Turn radius and who can get their nose on the enemy first is more often than not the factor that determines who will be the victor in a dog fight. If I was down low and just made the merge and survived with say a Mig-29 or a F-16 and they were at 6 or 700 knots and I was at 350 I guarantee I could get the A-10 pointed at them way before they made 270 degrees in their turn and when they got there they would find several hundred rounds of red hot armor piercing 30mm shredding their bird. The Hog may be slow and ugly but damn, what a beautiful piece of nightmarish killing machine it is. Great video...

My Da flew the A10s namesake during WW2, and he loved his Thunderbolt, or "Jug" as it was affectionately known. They were powerful, rugged, and well armed. The apple does not fall far from the tree.

Dogfighting against an A-10 is like debating an idiot: They'll drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

Sorry to say that but most of the time the A-10 will get stomped by most fighter simply due to the superior energy potential compared to the A-10. We aren't in WW2 anymore doing turnfight, today's fighters are energy fighters. A fighter can simply go Boom and Zoom until the A-10 is grounded.

Makes me want to play that computer game I played as a kid-- A-10 Attack!

I've been subscribed for a while but just found this. It is great! I always love coverage of the A-10.

Thanks for posting this video!!!

"BRRRRRTT!! Intensifies"

Most people don't know the A-10 carries as much strike power as a WWII B-25 Mitchell bomber with a crew of one instead of 5. The A-10 is also cleared for a head on attack. It can fire first from further away. As a jet fighter pilot would you like that 30 mm Gatlin gun pointed at you?

Totally awesome report/coverage. I learned a couple new things and I served 10 years in the USAF.

New to your Channel. TY for NOT using Robo-voice. Your content is surprisingly precise and accurate. I am happy my first exposer to you is with the A-!0! My Absolutely Favorite airframe. Looking forward to many more of your videos!

I remember a news video during the first weeks of the afghan conflict that showed an A-10 pilot land his bird with one turbine blown off the aircraft and numerous holes in the wings. He climbed down and kissed the side of his plane and requested another one to resume his mission. That is magic

The warthog was named wrong, they should have called those things a fire breathing dragon.

Army Infantry's best friend in the sky. Always put a smile on my face to see them around. Thank you to all the A-10 pilots out there. 😁👍

great video! thoroughly enjoy your content. keep it up!

The A-10 can out-turn any fighter and it's surprisingly maneuverable. It can keep its guns trained on the enemy fighter throughout the entire fight. If the A-10 is low to the ground (where it should be) and ground clutter is making a Fox-3 kill problematic I'd say the A-10 is the one with the advantage.

Ah yes, dogfighting, that thing that happens still.

This channel will have significantly more subs soon, amazing vid!

Spent my life living and working in around Davis Monthan Air Force Base and watching these very birds. What a great video.

This is something i never considered, but it makes a whole lot of sense. The A10 is my favorite plane. Not every day someone builds a machine as successful as this

How can you win in a dogfight? A-10: BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. The end.

Great vid thanks so much.

Started making model aircraft/cars with my father/uncles when i was a kid in the 70s. Still do rc stuff. Always loved this as a model. It really is beautiful.

I love everything about this tank of the skies!

Gunsmoke Challenge Nellis AFB a couple years ago an A10 "shot down" an F15 in a 1v1 dog fight. All the pilots were losing it at the club that evening lol.

Great video, I’m a virtual pilot and I play War Thunder, so I love learning about dogfight strategy and mechanics. And seeing how challenging it is to go up against aces in a virtual environment, I’m always blown away hearing about pilots doing the real thing.

Great video! Blown away!

A grunts best friend.

Similarly, any kind of attack helicopter can shoot down an aircraft if it get's close. And if both A-10 and helicopter are equipped with air to air missiles (if they can), suddenly engaging these "defenseless targets" with guns is rather unsafe and a unpleasant surprise. Shooting a missile is still ideal than getting up close with these targets. That is, if you can spare a missile.

I live in Cambridgeshire UK and used to love watching the A10s going though their paces out on the fens definitely a plane to be reckoned with

Great video.. Yes I subscribed..!! Well done sir!!

The A10 also has other impressive accolades such as: the plane with the most amount of friendly fire kills in USAF history, a gun with a 12 meters of dispersion, being a Taliban propaganda piece, never actually engaging a modern military, being an ISIS propaganda piece and last but not least having a gun that has limited usefulness at best and is obsolete at worst

Dog fight? AIM 9? You can't be serious. Let's cut to the chase. The Air Force knows that the A10 survivability rate will be dismal against a near peer enemy whether it has escorts or not. The life expectancy for an A10 pilot is like the life expectancy of a recon helicopter pilot when fighting a competent enemy. Basically the A10, one of my favorite aircraft, would be toast against an engagement against Russia/China

well documented information thanks

I was blessed to grow up on the shoreline of Lake Michigan. We got A-10 squadrons all over. Our boys from Battle Creek went to Iraq, they saved the shells and laser etched the squadron crest on them. I was lucky enough to get two of the shells.

And a biplane can beat a modern jet in a turning dogfight if they fought at low speed but no one is that dumb.

A-10. One engine shot up....missing half a tail.....missing part of a wing.....still ready to fight. And still can protect ground troops till help arrives. What can do better???

well made video...very good job

The only experience I've had with an A-10 was living in Tucson AZ. Jets and Warthogs would do flyovers all the time. We were at the turn-around point. Nothing sounded like a Warthog - so unique. Cannons with wings!

A sniper rifle is a poor choice for fighting inside a building. Same thing applies here.

*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*

The A 10 is an amazing aircraft, turn rate is awesome, the gun, well thats another story. The gun is amazing

Very good and informative video.

A-10 during war games shows they can dogfight

A-10-s can carry sidewinders. They were designed that way.

And that is why the A-10 has always been my favorite jet from my childhood till now.

cool video. very informative

Probably my favorite aircraft ever built, a lot of people will say the hog is an ugly machine but I've always though it's beauty lies in it's simplicity, it's an aircraft designed for close air support, tank busting and general ground attack and it does it's job better than anything that came before it. 👍

Sweet now I have an excuse to use a Warthog on every single mission in an Ace Combat game, because that's what I was going to do anyway

Used to watch A-10s doing touch-and-goes at Willow Grove. Such a beautifully-flying machine. I love to hear how well they work at their design task.

This video Just makes me happpy!! Thanks.......

On the "chess board" of war planes the A-10 aren't the fast moving Rooks, Bishops or Queen that can fly all the way across the board. They're the slower moving Knights that might take a minute to get there, but move in sharp L's that can wreck havoc quickly once in position.

Like many, I am a fan of the A-10s but, with the current capabilities of air-air missiles and radar, I thought dogfights were extremely rare to the point jetfighters still carry machineguns as emergency defense measure only (probably to be phased out in 6th gen aircrafts). Am I wrong?

SR71 Driver "My Sled goes really fast" F22 Pilot "My Fighter has Supercruise" A10 Pilot "My Tank has wings!"

Training under these things is just a huge moral boost. Sweating hot miserable days would erupt into cheers when we'd hear that brrrrr

LFMAO, any simulated dogfight player would tell you the best turn rate wins. I was in very boring fights where, for minutes, we circle each other. Ofc with a wingman this would be much easier. The answer how to dogfight against faster crafts was answered during WW2 against Zero in the pacific theater.

very seldom do a-10's go at ground forces without defensive air support as well. So, in reality, there is few and far between missions were enemy aircraft will engage them. That being said, most a-10s have damage from the ground forces fighting back at them.

Thanx for the info on the A-10 Warthog ability to dogfight.

These things continue to amaze even after all this time.

The A10 should never be retired as long as we fight using boots on the ground. Those guys depend on the warthog to save the day because I'm sure the sight of the A10 is horrific for the enemy.

So how does the A-10 win a Dog Fight? Better Air-Drifting

My favorite USAF plane! Don't get me wrong -- I love the zoomies on full-burner, as well as the big bombers and cargo aircraft , but for sheer awe --- Air Guard used to practice touch n goes at my local airport in the 1980's. Super-maneuverable, and spooky-quiet! Also got a chance to see them on the range at Ft. McCoy one time. Glad they work for us!

Awesome video! I love A-10s

Every Ace Combat player: We know...

It’s the toughest aponent in the air. Period. If they get rid of it, shame on them.

I don't have any cool military stories, but one time I was on a flight out of Colorado Springs and as we were taxing down the runway, two A-10's were taxing behind us, waiting to takeoff. They're huge aircraft! And awesome!

Thank you. Regards, Geoff. Reeks