The A-10 carries approximately 1200 rounds of 30mm ammunition.

@tvdroid22

3 ай бұрын

And it doesn't need many to kill tanks and other vehicles.

@brandonprevost69

3 ай бұрын

Actually holds 1150 rounds and the loader is nicknamed the dragon.

@VortekXtiik

3 ай бұрын

@@tvdroid22yup, doesn’t seem like a lot of ammunition, but the ammunition is powerful enough, they don’t need much of it to do a lot of damage 😂

@oscartheg6674

3 ай бұрын

It fires and it's so powerful it slows the jet down.

@raaab1212

3 ай бұрын

Depleted uranium

"Ahh I love it, I don't know why"? Because Warthog go BBRRRTTT!!!!!!

@Dumaski

3 ай бұрын

The secondary sound that comes after the original firing what gets me.

@jaycooper2812

2 ай бұрын

My niece claims that the gun makes the world's loudest fart.

@Dumaski

2 ай бұрын

@@jaycooper2812 She's correct. 😆

The A-10 reminds me of something one of my friends said about his wife, ''Yeah, she's ugly, but damn, can she cook!''

@dizastro5437

3 ай бұрын

Top quality jest. Who else knows about your friend's wife?

I worked with veteran of the army and his statement about this plane was "We always breathed a si of relief when we heard the A-10 coming over the hill.

Just checked. The ammunition drum on the big gun is 6 feet in diameter and holds 1350 rounds.

@brandonprevost69

3 ай бұрын

The old drum held that many. The newer drum does not. 1150 rounds

@CorePathway

3 ай бұрын

Stores the casings too

I was stationed in Germany in the late 80s. Spent time on OP 9 in Grafenwoer. Every day at 1600 hours the A10s had the impact area. Boy, those guys smoked targets. Learned how to call close air support back then. 90 and 91 I found my happy ass in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. I called A10s and it saved our lives.

@aaronpincus6095

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service. I'm glad you made it home.

"The ducks nuts"...that's a first for me😂

@JohnLeePettimoreIII

3 ай бұрын

... the feline's behind. this is one i started saying a few decades ago.

The warthog is a monster... the sound it makes is like no other.

@nickolasnuber9254

3 ай бұрын

I beg to differ. I can make a similar sound while sitting on a wet bathtub.😁

The Warthog is absolutely beloved of the Groundpounders . . it's their Avenging Guardian Angel

@Xiphos0311

3 ай бұрын

It's saved my behind more than once.

@tvdroid22

3 ай бұрын

It's not fast, not smart (from a high-tech standpoint), and not even pretty, but man is it beautiful. It's tough, takes a beating, and unleashes Hell to protect those in need. How can anyone not LOVE that beast?

@alexanderdgray

3 ай бұрын

Not all ground pounders-A-10 was the most responsible for friendly fire in Iraq. Some commanders refused to call them in for this reason.

@tvdroid22

3 ай бұрын

@@alexanderdgray You would agree there's an inherent danger in battle, yes? How exactly would you define close air support? If you're overrun, or about to be, then yeah, unless you're going Broken Arrow, you wouldn't call them.

@alexanderdgray

3 ай бұрын

@@tvdroid22 Close Air Support is aerial warfare actions against hostile targets in close proximity to friendly forces. The USAF says the A-10 should only be deployed in uncontested airspace-and in a world where you never know if someone is going to pop up with a shoulder-launched SAM, that situation is never assured. Using the A-10 just to use the gun is kind of the worst of all worlds-expose a pilot and airframe so they can use a weapon where they have to get within 1km or less of the target, to fire a gun that has a rather broad splash zone, increasing the chance of friendly fire and civilian casualties. The modern choice is to use laser guided or other precision munitions that can be fired from a variety of aircraft from much further away, achieving the CAS mission with far less risk to pilots, friendlies, and civilians. To say nothing of drone warfare which makes all of this even more obsolete-javelin missiles for anti tank warfare or even Ukraine-style FPS drones for 1/10th cost. I know the A-10 has fanboys. But it is no longer worth supporting and maintaining a platform that gets more obsolete with each passing year when we could be investing in newer tech. And the gun? Fun fact-from day one, it was never a tank killer. Tests back in the 70s on stationary Soviet tanks (t-64s I think) showed even when they scored hits, the rounds penetrated the armor only about 10% of the time, when shooting from behind. It’s a fascinating plane, but its retirement is long overdue.

The p47 was a beast. Truly a great plane.

@stevedavis5704

3 ай бұрын

There’s stories of the P-47, nick named the Jug, coming back with a cylinder shot off of the radial engine and the piston still banging away as they came flying home on 17 cylinders instead of 18. The pilots loved the Jug because of its high probability for survival when you went out.

@Mentalpaused

3 ай бұрын

They were hard to shoot down to say the least. Some German ace ran out of ammo on one that was forced to fly straight and level.

@seansimms8503

3 ай бұрын

One of my favorite planes too, pretty dam fast too as heavy as they were.​@@stevedavis5704

1200 rounds and all empty casings kept on board for weight distribution.

The f15 is the most hotrod of US aircraft. It can break the sound barrier on take off going vertical and can fly with one wing. It shot down a satellite just because it could.

@NathanWithem

3 ай бұрын

And downed an aircraft by turning a laser guided bomb into an air-to-air weapon.

The A-10 and tge P-47 are both famous for bringing their pilots home even after taking substantial damage. The P-47s nickname was "the jug."

The A-10 is my number 2 most favorite aircraft. Check out the F4u corsair. In WWII it got the nickname "Whistling Death" for the sound it makes on a dive. One of the only aircraft designed with the gull wing.

@jameschristy5790

3 ай бұрын

Yep like those too.

The ducks nuts! LOL. We Americans love our Warthogs!

Cool fact, the A-10 is the only aircraft designed after the primary weapon system. Meaning, they took the GAU-8A 30mm gattling cannon, and basically said, "ok, now make this fly", so they designed the plane around using that specific gun, as the primary weapon system. Normal procedure is design the plane, then design, weapon systems, to accommodate the overall design and intended function of said aircraft.

When ground troops hear the "Warthog" they cheer! They know any "bad guys" will dis-appear....

I went to the North Bend Airshow around 1980 (8 years old) and they had an A-10 there. The pilot let me climb up and check out the cockpit. Since then, with NOTHING to do with actual stats, they has been my personal favorite as far as fighter aircraft.

Projects around the house can be a major pain.

Yeah just imagine being the grunt on the ground when it comes in and unleashes his massive firepower on the enemy

love that plane, the first time i saw the size of the 30mm cannon ( most of it is hidden inside the plane) my jaw dropped to the floor

You would enjoy the documentary about the Memphis Belle. This was one of a group of bombers very successful in bombing raids during WWII.

back in the 80's we had A10s stationed in our home town. At my grandparents house near the end of a runway we would wave at the pilots coming in to land.

Don’t know if you noticed it does not discharge the casings. They are offloaded during reloading. That is why there are 2 drives unloading/loading the plane.

It does NOT eject any spent casings. It stores them and then when reloading, it's new ammo in/spent casings out. You can see it on the automatic loader- there is a chute going in and one going out.

He forgot about all the women pilots. In fact one of the female pilots brought her Warthog back after being riddled with gunfire.😅😅😅

@Steve-gx9ot

3 ай бұрын

Big deal = male pilots are better and 99 percent

I’ve heard troops say if you hear the brrrrrt they weren’t aiming at you meaning the rounds hit before the sound.

Interesting fact....When they shoot the forward gun like that it actually slows down the forward speed of the plane, slightly.

Got to see a couple of these beasts flying above me this afternoon here in mid- missouri out of Whiteman air base, it was cool as always to see.

If you ever get the chance, visit the the US Air Force Museum near Dayton OH. It's incredible.

The A-10 gun sounds a lot like some of the best farts I have ever had...

When I was younger, I was a USAF TACP. My job was controlling close air support (CAS) for ground troops. On one exercise I found out that that day was the company commander's birthday, so I decided to give him a present while we was practicing coordination of fire on the firing/bomb range. When it came time for the CAS, I was lucky enough to have a flight of A-10's. I asked the flight lead if he was ok with a high threat scenario. He said sure. I hooked up with the company commander and told him we would be working together to designate targets. When he asked what we had, I told thait it was a surprise. I gave him a smoke grenade and told him that at my signal, pull the pin, throw it out there as far as he could and tell me the color. No sooner had he thrown it, the A-10s was doing pop-ups and rolling in on the initial targets . The captain spent the entire time designating targets and thoroughly enjoyed ths sound of the guns. When the lead told me they could do one last pass, I gave the headset to thecommander and told him he could talk to the planes and give him the final "cleared hot." Once thay were finished, I askedthe flight lead for and got a "door check," where the plane flies past our location fast, low and louud. Once the sortie was over, I turned to the captain, and with a big grin, said, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. The commander said it was the best present he had ever received.

@anthonybean931

3 ай бұрын

Good to see a fellow TACP out there. Eagle 28 here.

@CaseyinTexas

3 ай бұрын

@anthonybean931 I never went to the TACP tech school. I'm was a really, really ,really old school ex 304x4 Ground Radio, 275 convertee, back when we was still considered the Air Force's red-headed step children.

The helmet tergeting sight HMSs was pioneered by the South African Air force in the 1970s, first used with the Armscor V3 heat seeking missile.

they used to fly over my house ALL the time when they were stationed at the reserve airforce base here in Fort Smith, Arkansas... they were and still are my favorite war plane...

I really love videos with Kat. She’s amazing! ❤ Of course I enjoy your beautiful children as well. Love from Houston, Texas, USA ❤

I have always loved the Hog, and even built a model of one back in the late 70s. The GAU-8A cannon, with magazine, is longer than a 60s VW Beetle, and actually slows the plane down when firing. When you watch the reload clip, you may think it's a carosel, and you're right - if memory serves, the spent shell casings are stored in the plane instead of being ejected - that's a lot of brass. The A-10 was built to be basic. It's cockpit was more reminiscent of it's predecessor (Thunderbolt - an excellent ground attack fighter in WWII) than the F-15 or (originally export-focused) F-16, and had little in terms of sensors for ground attack (FLIR, active radar). Instead its original main stand-off missile was the Maverick, which was a TV-guided missile (not ideal if you're in dangerous territory). But it can carry a LOT - I think payload is 16,000 lbs, which is double what WWII B-17s could carry. The engines were turbofans that were commercially available. All of this was for cost control and focus on the gun. The only area where the USAF "splurged" aside from the gun was redundancy and pilot safety - the plane has multiple cable-linked redundant controls and the pilot sits in the proverbial titanium bathtub, which no other US ground attack aircraft that I know of has. Most A-10s now are operated by state Air National Guards, but obviously have been called up for active duty too often since the end of the Cold War. And sorry to burst your bubble - or confirm you are not gay - but some Hog drivers in Desert Storm were ladies - I think there's a video out there about one such pilot who nursed her Hog back after suffering massive triple-A damage. Lastly, it was mentioned that the A-10 has been threatened to be made redundant for years. This was USAF bureaucracy-driven (they like fast, sparkly things), but Congress (especially those members from military/infantry heavy states like SC, NC, VA, CA, TX) have repeatedly called gnerals to the carpet, seemingly often enough that they have got the message: ground-pounders adore the planes and their pilots. Every Army infantryman or Marine grunt I have talked to who had experience in Iraq or Afghanistan seemed ready to form a line to buy these pilots beers all night long - they absolutely loved to hear Hogs were inbound. My dad served in Vietnam (1/7 Cavalry, Garryowen) inclding Ia Drang, and his analogue was the A-1 Skyraider - he absolutely loved "those amazing bastards!"

The gun on the a 10 will make you smile unless you are on the bisnes end 😂

Jono, that 30mm cannon is 17 feet long in the Warthog!!!

We had a field that was adjacent to Moody Airforce base's bombing range and always enjoyed watching them doing their practice runs while digging and picking peanuts or picking cotton although the first time I heard them shoot their guns, it's scared the crap out of me, since I could hear it in a cab tractor with the A/C and radio on.

The best way to remember the difference between the bullet size f4om 200mm guns in other planes and the 30mm on A10 is that others are firing hunting rifle bullets at 6000 rpm and the A10 is shooting beer bottles at 4500 rpm

Love you're channel also I'm Proud to be an American and happy you're Our Alies. Love From Michigan and it's a rather warm Evening temp is 51 degrees.

Politicians try to "force" military equipment into "retirement" in order to satisfy the bribe condition they get from the military industrial complex. By retiring equipment the DOD has to order new equipment.

P-51 mustang and the A-10 warthog all time favorite planes! ❤

There was a Lady Pilot of the A-10 that wouldn't bail when her jet was severely damaged above Bagdad, it lost hydrolics, one Engine was damaged and the A-10 got her back to base.

@jaycooper2812

2 ай бұрын

When she got back they counted 327 holes in her aircraft and she flew it 100 miles like that.

Glad you are back but can't wait to see what you are building too. Keep it up!

Jono you need to watch the video of the A-10 being shot over 100x while in flight during a mission in Iraq.. the female pilot lost all hydrulic controls while flying over hostile territory..

I sure hope things get better building your kitchen. Recently I had 3 of them fly over me 3 times riding down the road.

Just saw it at The Luke Days Airshow last weekend. Awesome.

11Bs of the sky, best sound in the world ❤those guys!

The ammunition magazine holds 1350 rounds. The gun never fires longer than 3 to 4 seconds at a time. It is extremely accurate and the gun can penetrate up to 14 inches of hardened steel. Each round or "bullet" is the size of a beer bottle.

Per Google: The cannon can fire a range of ammunition, including armour-piercing incendiary rounds (API) weighing up to 0.75kg, or uranium-depleted 0.43kg API rounds. The magazine can hold 1,350 rounds of ammunition. The pilot can select a firing rate of either 2,100 or 4,200 rounds a minute. The"funky shape" is why we call them the Warthog! They only travel at 420 miles per hour.

I looked it up 1,350 is full drum however to balance the plane 1,174 with a lite bomb load out. The balance of fuel, bombs/missiles, and ammo is up to the ground crew chief. An ordinance airman died last week, just said a malfunction as he was doing his job. They didn’t elaborate what malfunctioned the plane or the lift loader. Weapons crew chief Charles Crumlett based in Alaska R.I.P. Charles work on F22’s

My father was 20 years in the US Air Force. I was born on a military base and grew up watching all kinds of mean a.. planes. My personal ranking is #1 the B52 Stratofotress, #2, the P38 Lighting and #3 the A10 Warthog.

When I was on active duty in the U.S. Army I was fortunate enough to have boots on the ground during periods of training. That's when I fell in love with this plane. video is great but live (and live fire) is awesome. I hope it never goes away.

To troops in trouble in combat, the most beautiful sound in the world is "brrrrrrrt", coming from the meanest, baddest, flying cannon in the world. It's the angel on their shoulder. As the joke goes, General Dynamic had this massive gatling gun lying around and wondered what to do with it. So, they built a plane around it.

Of course you love it! It's a gun with wings. How would anybody in the world not love that? LOL

Chad Hennings flew the A-10 in the late 80s early 90s flying missions in Bosnia retired then played defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys and won 2 Superbowls

Have you ever heard of the term the whole nine yards! That about how much they can carry, in this case it's about 18 yards, that's why they shoot in burst. Now I am using specs from WW II, and the P51 Mustang cartridge belts.

There so cool and so is the outside grill. I see the A-10 fly by all the time in Michigan off lake Huron. Every Tuesday in Michigan.

Fun fact, the gun barrels on the A-10 are 9 feet long.

The evolution of the airplane's use in wars is very interesting. They started out as a way to see what the enemy was up to. Then someone came up with the idea to carry things to drop on the enemy. Then hand held guns. They then mounted guns (which were sometimes more dangerous to the plane than the enemy) It just kept evolving from that point on.

The A-10's ammunition drum can hold up to 1,350 rounds of 30mm ammunition. In practice, the A-10 typically carries around 1,174 rounds. This leaves some room in the drum and makes the aircraft less heavy. Key Points : GAU-8 Avenger Cannon: The A-10's primary weapon is the GAU-8 Avenger, a massive 30mm Gatling-style cannon. Armor-Piercing: The cannon fires a mix of armor-piercing incendiary (API) and high-explosive incendiary (HEI) rounds designed to defeat tanks and other armored vehicles. Firing Rate: The GAU-8 has a blistering rate of fire of 3,900 rounds per minute. they say that it is the only aircraft built around a gun. Each design aspect has one job, to add to the hog's ability to carry, feed, and fire that cannon,.

The A-10 is my favorite military plane.

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They just came out with an updated Warthog. It's pretty cool.

I worked with an engineer in 2000 and he helped to develop the ammunition for this airplane. He was working for Aerojet at the time of development in the 1970's. He brought to work mockup examples of the ammo and shell casing to show us machinists.

Now there is a up grade on the A-10 it's new and black now.

In WW2 the turn(the whole nine yards) came from the machine gun belts, so 9 yards

One of my all time favourite plane-related pictures, is of the A10's GAU 8 cannon assembly and magazine drum sitting beside a Volkswagen Beetle for scale comparison. It's utterly jaw dropping.

Lovin' It, good sir! Thanks to you and the beautiful lady...

Those rounds go thru a tank like hot butter ! If you have ever seen pictures of the highway of death in Iraq war the A10 was part of that destruction along with the c130 and Apache helicopters

Former munitions systems for the A-10..IYAAYAS

Every project turns into a quest

I was a member of the Air National Guard. One of the officers in my unit was an A-10 pilot. He had some awesome stories…

Unfortunately they have started retiring some A-10s. I saw an article that the squadron at Davis Monthan AFB in Arizona just retired their first batch.😢

Every smartphone I've ever had. The wallpaper. Is the front view of. The. A10 thunderbolt 2. William s

In Dessert storm at the beginning of the 90s, the Iraqi forces started a bunch o foil fires. This was to keep all the allied planes from hitting their middle stations. The only aircraft that could attack thru all the smoke was the A10. It would fly in and let the middle radars lock on to the aircraft. That would show the A10 where the missle batteries were. And they would shot the ground forces before they could shot back.

The A-10 holds 1350 rounds of 30mm depleted uranium. Pilot can select firing rates of either 2100 or 4200 rounds a minute. 1174 rounds could be expended in 18 seconds with out using short burst of 1 to 2 second.

You need to watch the A10 documentary. You'll love it. It's about an hour long.

A constantly changing threat environment. A10 was perfect for 30 years, 1991-2021. We are in a drone environment since 2022. Russia/Ukraine forces a whole rethink since this video came out.

The A-10 carries between 1200 and 1500 rounds depending on the Aircraft model and gun magazine employed.

When I was in the USAF, the A-10s were just coming online(physically) and I was working occasionally at a nearby air gunnery range. The first time I heard one let loose as it went over the control tower, I could swear that GOD himself was quickly ripping the biggest piece of canvas apart right over head at about a hundred feet above.

In the 70's I was told by an A-10 pilot that they could cut any vehicle in half

It looks like more ammo because of the two belts. One belt loads new ammo the other unloads expended shells.

On the DIY subject: I was replacing my hot water heater, and the CPVC piping in my wall shattered. So now I'm replacing large chunks of my plumbing with copper. (I was told that pex is just as good, but coppersmithing is a hobby, so I'm quite comfortable working with copper pipe. Less so with plastic.)

Actually, there is talk of building new airframes of the A-10, but with newer materials like carbon fiber, and 21st century technology like advanced computers, but the 1 thing that the new ones IF BUILT, will retain, is that 30mm cannon in the front, but might get more rounds for it, if enough space can be made for a larger ammo drum. The design is so good, and the mission that it was created for is so crucial, that no other platform can even come close enough to it's performance to even consider letting it take over the mission and retiring the A-10. not to mention fitting that huge 30mm in another airframe smaller than a cargo plane is a difficult enough task, but it's presence over the battlefield has a value that is impossible to measure. and yes that information is available, the 30mm GAU avenger cannon in the A-10, hold 1,174 rounds at full capacity which is about 15.6 seconds worth of firing capacity, but considering how much damage each one of them can do, (DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF AMMO LOADED) 15.6 seconds can do an awful lot, seeing as how there is practice ammo, (just a normal bullet) then there is high explosive bullets, (hollow and filled with an explosive compound) which basically hits and explodes, blowing stuff up, then incendiary rounds, hits and sets things on fire, steel core armor piercing, I think is self explanatory, and then the one that tanks really hate, the DU rounds, (Depleted Uranium rounds) which slice through tank armor like a hot knife through butter.

I always said they're like a Warthog because they look different, but are nothing to mess with!

They shoot depleted uranium, it only takes a short burst to kill anything. So they have plenty of ammo.

They can hold 1174 rounds of 30MM. They shoot a 3 second drop. But everything else they carry makes it a beast.

As I remember from when I was in the air force in the 70s they carry 5000 30mm rounds

Online, I found a site saying 4,200 rounds.

The A-10 is the best CAS (close air support) ever to fly. Said from experience.

I live in Maryland, USA. The Maryland Air National Guard has a squadron based in Chase, MD which is east of Baltimore. We can see them flying occasionally during their training flights. Don't get to hear the awesome 30mm cannon but it's still cool to see them flying overhead!!

The A10 holds about 10 seconds of fire. About 1600 rounds on board

1174 max capacity. Remember they only fire short burst about 200 rounds at a time.

I love watching all of you, very cool channel ❤️

The gun's 5-foot, 11.5-inch (1.816 m) ammunition drum can hold up to 1,350 rounds of 30 mm ammunition, but generally holds 1,174 rounds.

You wouldn't have to worry when loading the ammunition for a gun on the Warthog or any other plane featuring some sort of cannon. They're not going to fire at random or whatever.

Nice reaction. Like most planes - the A-10 is designed to do ; Ground Support and does it the at good as possible. The A-10 has been called a { Flying Tank }. Even though the F-35 can do ground support to some extent ; it's not to the same extent as the A-10 and some of the missions the A-10 has been in with the damage the A-10 took , that damage would rip apart the F-35's.

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