![]() “I flew the A-10 for 20 years, I never got tired of it,” Swift said. “It’s very interesting because it can be lethal at 15,000 feet as Dan said with Maverick missiles and then it can be a treetop fighter and has the Gatling gun which is just so cool.” “It’s such a rugged and versatile plane,” Jai Mendleson said after speaking with Swift at the end of the presentation. While today's A-10 jet easily out-performs the T-6. The air war over Serbia in 1999 is credited as the first air campaign that produced a victory without the use of ground forces. The 10-million Machete, by contrast, could be a real performer, 'with a balance between weaponry, weight, and fuel consumption,' Peeler wrote. Swift said the Maverick missile can go through an armored tank, as well as 8-foot thick concrete. ![]() “We try to come here as often as we can, come here to peruse the museum every couple months.”Īccording to Swift, the A-10 weapons package can include up to 16,000-pounds of mixed ordinance including 500-pound “dumb” bombs with no internal guidance systems, Sidewinder and Maverick missiles, and more. “We come to the pancake breakfast a lot, we’re members of the museum and I’ve been to the air shows since the early 1980s,” Matthew Mendleson said. ![]() The eighth-grader at Farnsworth Middle School in Guilderland attended the monthly fly-in breakfast and presentation with his mom and dad, Manisha and Matthew Mendleson. “I thought the package was really cool, how much planning has to go into joint strike groups and different information about the A-10 in general,” 13-year-old Jai Mendleson, of Guilderland, said. ![]()
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