Why we love it, why it's so lethal, understanding it's 30mm DU round and what makes it so deadly and how it uses the tank armor against itself and what it does inside the tank (This "principal" would pretty much give you fair idea how much worse the affects would with a DU tank round. ).
I also found the
video rounds things out nicely.
Finally, I found this
very useful in game terms as well as quoted from the ref.
"The Air Force's Air Combat Command said that it is
still using armor-piercing incendiary rounds, albeit in smaller quantities than it used to. Alexi Worley, a spokesperson for Air Combat Command, said the
service is beginning to field belts of 30mm ammunition that feature
a mix of two armor-piercing incendiary rounds for every one high-explosive incendiary round. That ratio is a little lower than the
old ratio of five API to everyone HEI, "which has expired and was removed from the Air Force active inventory," Worley explained. But the new rounds will not be used in training, she said, as they are primarily for combat as part of the military's war reserve materiel."
This article was written yesterday which tells me if the USAF is
just beginning to field the
2:1 ratio belts of ammo that the previous
5:1 ratio belts of ammo are
most likely in the last year "of service" so DEC 2022.
We might need to reconsider how our in-game A-10 are setup based on the above from the USAF the ammo ratio issue
if there's a discrepancy between the two.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-...c140200524feab
I feel also especially as compared to the Russian OOB with their
Su-25SM UNIT 957/Su-30/34/35 ground attack units (Most or all.) at
TI/GSR 40 that we can do better than
1 A-10 UNIT 871 @ TI/GSR 40.
This had been a
very old "*****" of mine since the first
LITENING ER was fielded in
2001 followed by the
LITENING AT in 2003 not long before I showed up here. It
doesn't use up a weapons hard point as it's normally mounted to the fuselage in more recent times. The
last ref discusses it use on the
A-10 back in
2003.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-r...-Aircraft.html
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-She...nce-targeting/
http://www.sponauer.com/a-10litening/
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...4&&FORM=VDRVRV
(NOTE: 1. TEST EVALUATION DATES OF EACH SEGMENT (2000+) 2. ALTITUDE and RANGES "FLASH" at the BOTTOM of the SCREEN.)
Regards,
Pat
