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That cannon has a firing range of about a mile. The Warthog is designed for ground support and does just as well at a thousand feet as it does up to 40,000 ft. At 700mph if you are in an enemy tank and see the Hog coming at you it is already too late.
 
metalangel said:
I've been using it since about 1986! When I was very little, friends and I would take turns pretending we were the pilot and the others were the passengers, with one of the very old versions Flight Simulator (where only Chicago and the Cessna 182 were available). I remember the younger of the two brothers bought into the fantasy so heavily he was terrified that if he left the room he'd fall out of the 'plane'!

I only have an old Cyborg 3D joystick and an Xbox 360 pad, I never did nor do now have the space for the proper yoke and pedals.

I've flown in real life with the Air Cadets here in Canada, and would love to get my PPL but just can't afford it. Air shows are great and you're lucky to have one right on your doorstep! I once waited over an hour after an airshow had ended at CFB Borden because the promised flypast of a CF-18 was arriving late and 10 year old me *had to* see it go past in the flesh!

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Last summer my best friend and I went to the CNE. There was a Canadian Forces display and I convinced her to line up with me (we were the only adults without kids) to have a chance to sit in an LAV-III. Once we were inside it, she loved it, and afterwards we sat in a mock-up of a CF-18 cockpit. It was amazing!
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I just asked my husband about the old Flight simulator and he said he remembers when only Chicago and the Cessna 182 were available. My husband said that's about the time he started too. Also my husbands flight sim setup isn't as fancy as it I wrote. One computer is from 2011 and the other is from 2008. The newer computer runs flight sim and I guess the older one is used for scenery add ons,real weather and stuff like that. The yoke and rudder pedals bought years ago were $250 total new,but you can get them much cheaper now,especially if you buy them used. Also my husband has had to stop taking his real life flying lessons,as they are very expensive. He will start again when our daughter graduates college in 3 years. Too bad you or my husband don't live in the same area. He loves flight sim,flying and air shows. None of his friends care about flying much. You and my husband would probably have a good time hanging out!
 
metalangel, when my husband and I go to our local air show in may we will make video and I can share it on here for you,or on YouTube. Let me know what birds you specifically like and I can make sure to get some good video for you. I can probably have him close caption the video too,since I don't know how to do that.
 
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goodonya said:
Alaska is a military state. The Air Force Base here had the A-10 Thunderbolt, the Warthog. It is an amazing craft. It is not pretty but says power in every way. They have a cannon on them that fires up to 4,200 round per minute. It carries a variety of bombs, air to surface missiles, and air to air missiles. It is heavily armored and has an 800 mile range. It flies around 700mph and looks like it is barely moving.
The jets are so powerful it can go from flying flat to turning on to its side with the wings completely perpendicular to the ground and just carry on looking like it should just fall out of the sky. Awesome. I feel like Alaska is much safer with a bunch of those around.
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but.... the Warthog is for Air-to-Ground. what enemy would launch a ground invasion thru Alaska into Canada into America? :lol:
 
metalangel said:
The depleted uranium rounds it fires from its Avenger cannon (like the P-39 above, it was built around this weapon) are the size of milk bottles.

It's a plane designed to blow up tanks using its gun. Amazing.

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I was thrilled to use it in the ground attack missions in Ace Combat 6 on the Xbox 360 and kept on using it even when faster, nicer looking planes like the Rafale became available.
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my friend (ex-Rangers) said Warthog fires so fast that enemies inside a tank would get sucked out thru bulletholes. those depleted uranium rounds are surely very destructive
 
oh come on you guys...... a game? :lol:

for flying.... I prefer "fat boy" propeller. I would definitely like to try Albatross and Osprey
 
Jiro said:
but.... the Warthog is for Air-to-Ground. what enemy would launch a ground invasion thru Alaska into Canada into America? :lol:
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If they are going to actually try to take ground they have to have feet on the ground and lots of them. Alaska is a strategic gemstone for North America and is the natural place to make the landing and hold a forward position while tearing up the civilian clogged underbelly of America further south. It is also the natural place to hold and attack from by us. It is probably the most strategically valuable place on the planet, for us or for the other side.
Right now Russia is a threat. Why? Because Russia is always a threat to its neighbors. Anyone crazy enough to think otherwise is well crazy. There is a reason they have the largest country. Why when you look at a map of Alaska there is no roads out to the Bering Sea?
 
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Russian logistics would be a nightmare through Siberia. They'd be stretched thin alright since the majority of their forces are in Eurasia, unless an alliance with China provides the manpower.. Thus their investment in strategic nuke triad (ICBMs, SLBMs, ALCMs) to make up for their conventional shortcomings.
 
goodonya said:
If they are going to actually try to take ground they have to have feet on the ground and lots of them. Alaska is a strategic gemstone for North America and is the natural place to make the landing and hold a forward position while tearing up the civilian clogged underbelly of America further south. It is also the natural place to hold and attack from by us. It is probably the most strategically valuable place on the planet, for us or for the other side.
Right now Russia is a threat. Why? Because Russia is always a threat to its neighbors. Anyone crazy enough to think otherwise is well crazy. There is a reason they have the largest country. Why when you look at a map of Alaska there is no roads out to the Bering Sea?
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yea what femme Fatale said... it's a logistic nightmare if an enemy wants to invade America because they'll have to deal with both Canadian and American military. If you look at the map to see how they can mobilize tanks and armies into America from Alaska thru a road... I say GOOD LUCK! the nature and weather will take care of it for us.

that's a beauty about America... it's a logistic nightmare for any enemy to invade this country. that's why the American Revolutionary War dragged on for 8 years. and it took America approximately 6 months to mobilize everything to 1991 Persian Gulf War.

It would be much easier and cheaper to invade America thru shores with aircraft carriers or whatever but then... good luck surviving our counterattacks while crossing the ocean! It would make Normandy landing looks like a small skirmish :lol:
 
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My apologies to the people for not putting CC on.

A picture says it all (I read lips) Sorry!!

Some of the pictures Etc have no CC on them.

I hear with my eyes just like driving my cars.

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Alaska is only 50 miles from Russia. It is less than that counting to Big Diomede Island. We have outrageous resources here. One gold mine is putting out 490,000 troy oz. a year. It is owned by the Japanese Summimoto Corp.
The Japanese in WWll were island hopping their way up the Aleutian Chain. The one road into Alaska was developed at that time.

Fortunately we have legislators and governorship of such an obscenely low intelligence and ability we do not have to be taken over by military force. They give it away.

One of the largest oil and gas projects in North America today is being built in the Arctic here. It is a partnership between a Russian oil company and Exxon.
Alaska was once owned by Russia. Like all neighbors of Russia the inhabitants here were brutalized.
This place has more airplanes per capita than any other place on earth. Because the place is so spread out and a minimal road system the air traffic here is amazing. Airstrips everywhere. Two major US Air Force Bases and old Stations scattered all over mostly shut down now.
 
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I have been reading up on the B-24's used in WWII. Dang, they are legendarily tough planes. My father was shot down in one, as it was limping over Holland with just one engine. A lot of good stories on that one.
 
BeckiGreen said:
metalangel, when my husband and I go to our local air show in may we will make video and I can share it on here for you,or on YouTube. Let me know what birds you specifically like and I can make sure to get some good video for you. I can probably have him close caption the video too,since I don't know how to do that.
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Thank you for the kind offer! The Smyrna air show's website doesn't list what is going to be showing up yet.

This is the Toronto show's site from last year: Canadian International Air Show - Toronto Air Show

I didn't get to go (the crowd is always huge!) but I did hear one of the military jets pass overhead enroute to the 2012 show, it shook the house! There was an article from an old curmudgeon columnist in the paper complaining about the noise and waste of fuel and everything else he could find fault with.
 
metalangel said:
Thank you for the kind offer! The Smyrna air show's website doesn't list what is going to be showing up yet.

This is the Toronto show's site from last year: Canadian International Air Show - Toronto Air Show

I didn't get to go (the crowd is always huge!) but I did hear one of the military jets pass overhead enroute to the 2012 show, it shook the house! There was an article from an old curmudgeon columnist in the paper complaining about the noise and waste of fuel and everything else he could find fault with.
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I know they have a lot of war planes
and older planes there. I will check the website in the next few weeks and see what planes are coming.
 
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