GAU-8 Avenger

F-35D+ to Feature Titanium Bathtub and GAU-8 Avenger

April 1, 2015 // 5 Comments

Responding to the complaints of thousands of Facebook users on various Save The Hog and Long Live the A-10 pages, engineers have redeveloped the F-35D+ to include a titanium [read more...]

DOUBLE A-10 GUN RUN

November 18, 2013 // 0 Comments

A quick video from Funker530 of the GAU-8 in action. The title says it all: two gun runs on insurgent positions, called in by ISAF forces who were taking heavy [read more...]

How Combat Tree Made the F-4 Phantom II the Deadliest Fighter Over Vietnam in the 1970s

by Ian D'Costa in The Ready Room

Imagine, as a fighter pilot, being able to see your enemy without them knowing you’re even in the area. Sounds like some newfangled stealth capability you’d expect to come stock on a fifth generation fighter, like the F-22 Raptor or the F-35 Lightning II, right? But what if I were to tell you that the US Air Force possessed such a [read more...]