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- My books -
Ju 87 Stuka - http://stukabook.com
STG-44 Assault Platoon - http://sturmzug.com
German Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com/
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- Sources -
Alfred Price, To War in a Warthog, AIR FORCE MAGAZINE, August: 1993
David R. Jacques LtCol USAF (Ret.) & Dennis D. Strouble, A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog) Systems Engineering Case Study, Air Force Center for Systems Engineering, Wright Patterson AFB: 2010
Eliot A. Cohen, Gulf War Air Power Survey Vol. V – Statistical Compendium and Chronology Washington: 1993
Fred Frostic, Air Campaign Against the Iraqi Army in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations, RAND, Santa Monica: 1994
James A. Winnefeld, Preston Niblack & Dana J. Johnson, A League of Airmen – U.S. Air Power in the Gulf War, RAND, Santa Monica: 1994
R.H.S. Stolfi et al, Combat Damage Assessment Team A-10/GAU-8, Naval Postgraduate School, January 1979
Richard P. Hallion, America as a Military Aerospace Nation: From Pearl Harbor to Desert Storm, in John Andreas Olsen, Airpower Applied, Naval Institute Press, Maryland: 2017
Perry D. Jamieson, Lucrative Targets – The U.S. Air Force in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations, Air Force History and Museums Program, Washington: 2011
United States General Accounting Office (GAO), Report to Congressional Requesters – Operation Desert Storm: Evaluation of the Air War, GAO: July 1996
United States General Accounting Office (GAO), Report to Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives – Operation Desert Storm: Evaluation of the Air War, GAO: June 1997
World Air Power Journal, A-10 Flighting Warthog, Vol. 16, Spring, 1994
- Video footage -
Department of Defense: The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.
Footage of moving targets filmed at: https://tankmuseum.org/
- Timecodes -
00:00 - Disclaimer
00:03 - Intro
00:35 - Topic of today
02:27 - The gun no one expected
09:27 - DCS: A-10 gun pass (Thrustmaster segment)
10:21 - DCS: A-10 gun pass
13:43 - The gun: dramatic but overrated?
16:04 - Desert Storm: The data problem
18:03 - Desert Storm: What did the A-10 (not) do?
23:28 - Desert Storm: Why the Mavericks matter
26:22 - Desert Storm: A-10 casualties
29:14 - The gun that became famous
34:29 - Stuff I'd like to talk about
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