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Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War (The Warriors) Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 2005
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- Print length268 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPOTOMAC BOOKS
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2005
- Dimensions5.2 x 0.8 x 7.9 inches
- ISBN-109781574888867
- ISBN-13978-1574888867
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“One of the more valuable additions to the literature of the Persian Gulf War.”—Booklist
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“An absorbing tale of how a decidedly ugly duckling became a military hero of some consequence.”—Kirkus Reviews
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“Smallwood writes so well that we feel the sweat in the small of our backs and the adrenaline pumping.”—F. Clifton Berry Jr. and author of CNN: War In the Gulf
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“A fitting tribute.”—Stephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intruder
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Then the A10s arrived. Going low-n-slow, looking for new fortifications, destroying whatever found, continuing on until the big one: finding a depot on the Baghdad-Amman highway that they named 'home depot' (stocked to destroy homes, not improve them), and another called Hicksville. Containing hundreds of bunkers and unknown amounts of munitions, A10s devoted many trips to deny them to Iraqi forces.
When Saddam tried to involve the neutral Israelis by firing Scud missiles eastward, the A10s hunted their mobile launchers. When Iraqi helicopters played cat and mouse, a Warthog shot one down. Need night coverage? SAM killers? 'Hogs answered the call, but nervously. This was more hazardous than Viet Nam. The Generals had to be pleased with those homely heroes.
Final chapter told of the three Warthogs flown to Albuquerque for storage. Sadly, the Air Force did not want them anymore. 'Then they took their bags and turned their backs on the green machines that had carried them so many miles through fire and storm. The machines would go to the pickle factory to be embalmed, and, theoretically, they could be brought back to life should they be needed in an emergency. But none of the pilots expected that to happen.
With their consciences weighed by guilt, they were leaving their perfectly healthy and faithful bird dogs at the pound and they knew their real fate.' (p. 217)
See: Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot , Strike Eagle: Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War (The Warriors) .
A plane that the air force had no place for but is still in the fleet and currently has no alternate replacement.
To be flying a gun platform such as this with the fire power and accuracy must be awesome, no pointy nose jet jockey can get close. Its one thing to deliver ordnance at 18,000 + feet but to be flying at less that 200 knots at ground level is something else. To be able to sneak up at 5000 feet and go surprise, thats one hell of a plane.
This book was written to the dedication for and about a special breed of pilots who have the true spirit of aviation who believe so much of this oddball bird.
Recommended as a must read.
Smallwood's way of teeling the facts, the anecdotes, the pilots interviews is filled with tension, comedy, punch lines, drama... a very good storyteller!
The book itself covers the aspect of how the aircraft were deployed, that A-10s squadron were prepared and ready to go way before all others in the USAF, the difficulties of installing a functional airbase in middle of nowhere in Saudi Arabia, the unsung heroes that did that, and ultimately, how a very low-tech aircraft, and its pilots, came to be recognized as the most versatile platform in a war generally remembered only by the high tech world of guided munitions and stealth aircraft. if you ever was at least slightly interested in the A-10 and its exploits, this is a must have.
But what this volume reveals is that while these other types made their contribution, the A-10 was THE inidispensible warplane of that conflict, While no one jet and her crews can claim to have won the war by themselves, if any one could, it would have been the A-10.
It wasn't designed to break speed records, and it wasn't designed to win beauty contests...it was designed to break the enemy and to win wars. And that it did, exceedingly well. This volume is a must-read for the modern military aerospace buff and military historian...it will serve as a revelation especially to those who have tended to turn their nose up at this 'ugly duckling' that was in fact a vicious bird of prey.
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Me pareció muy interesante lo poco que se esperaba de este avión y lo mucho que aportó. Es también sorprendente lo mal que está gestionada la USAF, como se demuestra en el tipo de misiones que tuvieron que hacer los A-10s sin medios específicos para ello: por ejemplo las misiones nocturnas usando la cámara IR de los Mavericks para operar de noche.









