Credit to Tully2001 for the landing gear!
An upgrade to the aging A-2E Boar, it features the improved wing sections, as well as new landing gear that eliminated the ancilliary emergency wheels on the landing gear pods in the wings. This will be the final upgrade to the A-2, as recent conflicts, conventional and otherwise, have rendered the niche the A-2 Boar filled obsolete. Against a well-equipped army, the A-2 suffered high loss rates against modern air defenses due to its low speed, making it vulnerable to modern surface-air missiles, where other types such as the A-8 Hawk II, A-3 Hummingbird, or even the elderly F/A-3E Hawk, proved more survivable with their higher speeds. Against a guerrila army, it was simply overkill, akin to using a sledgehammer to drive a nail into wood, where the legendary and more economical A-1 Pummeler was sufficiently powerful.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Predecessor PDI A-2E Boar
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 44.0ft (13.4m)
- Length 36.2ft (11.0m)
- Height 12.7ft (3.9m)
- Empty Weight 15,747lbs (7,142kg)
- Loaded Weight 21,714lbs (9,849kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 6.209
- Wing Loading 31.0lbs/ft2 (151.5kg/m2)
- Wing Area 699.8ft2 (65.0m2)
- Drag Points 7163
Parts
- Number of Parts 172
- Control Surfaces 14
- Performance Cost 1,007
Thanks! @Hockeygoalie21
Best and most stable plane I've ever flown. Though the takeoff is a bit weird. Nice job overall!
@PyrusEnderhunter I'm really not sure what you could use this for, that something else like a fighter-bomber or prop attacker can't do.
@Pilotmario lol. But srsly. When something fades, it goes to heaven (or hell). In this case, when planes fade, they get stuffed into a spaceship and shipped to the I.S.F.O.S
@PyrusEnderhunter Let it go, let it go, can't hold it back any more...
Let it go, let it go...
Okay, I'll stop.
@Pilotmario I am honestly a hater of frozen. I refuse to let it go....
The A-10 is getting the same fate IRL.
Because when they actually flew A-10s against the Iraqi Republican Guard (by the way, the closest thing to a competent conventional force met by the US Armed Forces in recent times), which was better equipped, better trained, and better motivated than most of the Iraqi Army, the A-10 was absolutely murdered by surface-air missiles, and was subsequently withdrawn from action against them, replaced by F-16 fighter bombers with precision-guided munitions.
And so they were used in counter-insurgency missions, which while the type was very effective, its use was akin to using a sledgehammer to drive a nail through a 2x4 plank of wood. A basic or advanced trainer, such as the BAe Hawk and the Embraer Tucano (in limited USAF service as the A-29), will do the same job just as effectively, for a much lower cost to procure and maintain.
So the USAF is planning to replace it with the F-35 for CAS when the enemy is actually able to fight the US Armed Forces on a more level playing field, and a turboprop-powered attack plane such as the Bronco or Tucano, for CAS when the enemy has the anti-aircraft firepower of a Duska or Ma Deuce on a pedestal. @AudioDud3
@JoshuaPlanes Download a plane and you can.
Just be sure it's not an exact copy.
@AccipitrisEnterprises Sure!
@PyrusEnderhunter insert Frozen soundtrack
Let it go, let it go, can't hold it back anymore!
@Pilotmario Can we buy the old airframes? They Might find a second life in the Berusian Air Command....
@MadBomber I shall press "F" to pay respects.
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goodbye to an old warhorse.
I REFUSE TO LET THIS THING FADE!
@GoldenEagle @PINK @MemeKingIndustriesAndMegaCorporation We're phasing out the A-2. The niche it filled is simply obsolete in our eyes.