A-10s wont use their main gun

[Jimmy the Saint 10]

"how can I make A-10s use their guns instead of..."

should be possible by cycling through the available weapon-system. :)

[galzohar 31]

MBT with only 2" of steel at certain places? I highly doubt that, and even if it was true hitting that exact spot would take a lot of luck, same as hitting other critical areas. It's not that 30mm is totally useless, but you really can't do anything similar to comparing it to firing mavericks or using bombs.

[manberries 0]

Armor is so unbelievably more complex than your stating it. Look up the articles and forum posts (not in this forum) with over 100,000 words describing only the basics of the many different types of world armor. Reactive armor is far more than a small explosive on the outside, and armor is far more than just a certain thickness of steel. The US army has tested the a-10s effectiveness agaisnt a number of world tanks. An upgraded t72mv1 received no penetration after 5 runs. T-80u, T-72/120, Leopard 2a6, M1(insert package number), Challenger 2, Leclarec, T-90, Type-98 none of these would be penetrated. Some damage to the outside components though.

[galzohar 31]

"Reactive armor" is not really "armor", it's more like something that is on TOP of your armor. That is, your tank has standard thick steel armor (or ceramic armor, doesn't matter for the purpose of this post), and on TOP of it has the reactive boxes that explode when penetrated to divert HEAT gas gets and to break SABOT penetrating rods, so that they would be less likely to penetrate the actual armor. "Reactive armor" is more like the icing on the cake of the armor, not the direct protection.

Whether the 30mm would penetrate those reactive boxes and thus make it more likely that an RPG or whatever destroys the tank or not is a good question though, but I wouldn't go on a strafing run just to do that. Especially not when I have mavericks and bombs.

[Guest]

IRL you'd use the missiles first (long range and safe)... Then bombs because they're SO much more damaging and can be dropped from a much higher altitude, and then rockets because they're simply better than the cannon and then only use the cannon when there's nothing else to use. I know some say the vulcans on the (ground attacking) F16s are there "just in case" and are practically never used. A 20/30mm cannon just doesn't do anywhere near the same damage as the big explosive weapons.

The entire A-10 is built around the gau. It is the primary weapon, and is alot more efficient for straffing runs then any rocket :)

1 round from that thing would penetrate straight through a tank, so eptying 300 into a tank is gonna blow the thing to fook! I think the gun empties 1300 round ever 13 seconds or something silly like that.

[NoRailgunner 0]

Just to keep you on the right side:

Using the GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm cannon, the A-10 is capable of disabling a main battle tank from a range of over 6,500m. 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 2,100 or 4,200 rounds a minute.

Some mission designer forget/dont know that Shilkas and Tunguskas arent operating as one-vehicle-defenders. Mostly they are covering+securing the area in groups up to 5-6 vehicles.

In Arma2 its imo ok if AI is using the Mavericks to take out the highest threats and go on with dumb rockets + GAU. I still didnt see that AI is able to use unguided bombs on their own.

[logimenn 10]

A-10 is a Tank Killer cuz his 0.5s long burst from GAU can take out a tank without any problems. I think AI should use GAU as a primary weapon for destroying tanks etc. This will be very spectacular to infantry soldiers observing A-10 attacks :)

[Flanker15 0]

I think allot of people have a very inflated opinion of the gau-8, with only 40mm of RHA penertration at 1000m it's a poor choice for use against a MBT. The best you can hope for is to damage the optics, barrel or other exposed parts. Even the tracks and engine of a modern tank would be hard to break with it.

The high RPM of the gun only effects the chance to hit as the proability of 2 penertrators hitting the same place is almost non-existant, let only the several you'd need to get through modern tank armor.

There is a gunnery manual for the Gau-8 on the net somewhere, featuring a T-55 early model as an example. It instructed that the only place that could be hit sucessfully was the rear area and barrel, now compared to a T-72B or a even more modern tank the T-55 was very ligthly armored.

There's a reason A-10s carry anti-tank missiles.

[Droc 10]

Fact of the matter is a volley from the GAU 8 will destroy or cripple most anything.

Its an old, but still very effective weapon.

With laser guided alien blasters and all kinds of fancy crap, its nice to have good old massive firepower. A A10 fan is the same guy who, in the future, would choose a sawed off shotgun and a cigar over a lazer gun.

[manberries 0]

^ No, not a fact. The GAU-8 will not penetrate modern mbts. Every major modern mbt can withstand numerous runs agaisnt the GAU-8. Read up on penetration and RHA values. Testing by the US army clearly shows the GAU-8 is ineffective agaisnt most mbts. Even an upgraded t62 withstood two runs from it.

[horton 10]

Yeah but did anyone answer how to make the AI use the GAU-8? I'd love a strafing run instead of a normal missile attack.

[jackass888 0]

So much offtopic makes jebus cry. Something like this might work:

a10 removeMagazine "6Rnd_Mk82"; a10 removeMagazine "2Rnd_Maverick_A10";a10 removeMagazine "14Rnd_FFAR"; a10 removemagazine "4Rnd_GBU12"

Edited June 19, 2010 by jackass888

[someguywho 12]

I found that this worked.

this removeMagazine "6Rnd_Mk82"; this removeMagazine "2Rnd_Maverick_A10"; this removeMagazine "14Rnd_FFAR"; this removemagazine "4Rnd_GBU12"; this removemagazine "2Rnd_Sidewinder_AH1Z";

Just stick it in the init line and your away :D

Edited June 19, 2010 by someguywho