Barksdale Hog in HDR

[Sentinel Chicken]

Another set of shots from this past weekend's Denton Air Show and one of my favorite aircraft, the Warthog.









Didn't realize there was some realignment with Barksdale AFB's reserve Hog unit. Used to part of the 917th Wing which included both the AFRC's Buffs and the A-10s, they were administratively separated and the A-10s are now the 917th Fighter Group and report to the 442nd Fighter Wing which is the A-10 unit based at Whiteman AFB in Missouri as a "geographically separated unit".

I think this is one of the new upgraded A-10Cs. Those aircraft have the new wing set as well as a SATCOM aerial and GPS fairing on the dorsal fuselage (just above the fighter group badge).

[PR19_Kit]

The mind boggles at a unit that consists of A-10s and B-52s........ 

Shouldn't they have a few T-6s in the mix as well? 

Or an SR-71?

[scooter]

The mind boggles at a unit that consists of A-10s and B-52s........ 

Shouldn't they have a few T-6s in the mix as well? 

Or an SR-71?

They both do the same job, Kit-Close Air Support. Just one carpet bombs the bejeezus out of an area, while the other is more...surgical in its application. 

[pyro-manic]

I'd hardly call "hosing the place down with 30mm uranium slugs" surgical.

[Gondor]

I'd hardly call "hosing the place down with 30mm uranium slugs" surgical.

Compared to a B-52 load of two thousand pounders an A-10 is surgical even with said 30mm slugs.

Gondor

[Hobbes]

The mind boggles at A-10s being in a Fighter wing 

[kerick]

The US Air Force simply refuses to use the words attack or strike no matter how much it may apply. Just think of all the "F"-105s and "F"-111s that were obviously not fighters. Closest they ever got was calling a unit a fighter bomber wing.