A-10 live fire - Barry M Goldwater Range
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A-10 live fire - Barry M Goldwater Range
Hi
In January I was lucky enough to visit the Barry M Goldwater live fire range in Arizona. There were two A-10's from DM making several strafing passes at the targets.
The sound of an A-10 strafing is awesome, but not something you want to hear if you are on the receiving end of the shells!
C & C welcome
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Regards
Søren Augustesen
In January I was lucky enough to visit the Barry M Goldwater live fire range in Arizona. There were two A-10's from DM making several strafing passes at the targets.
The sound of an A-10 strafing is awesome, but not something you want to hear if you are on the receiving end of the shells!
C & C welcome
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Thanks for looking
Regards
Søren Augustesen
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Absolutely stunning post! Great stuff!
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Man they are superb cracking set there
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Great stuff.
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Thats a love puff and a half! Superb!
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Re: A-10 live fire - Barry M Goldwater Range
Looks like the AAR boom operators need a bit of practice
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Love the A10, stunning set you can see the shockwaves in shot 3 !
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Great set of images, love the shockwave shot!
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theactualsparky wrote:Looks like the AAR boom operators need a bit of practice
that is quite a dent
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Wow! Big focal length or low altitude?
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Fabulous pictures; all that action frozen in time. I've been lucky enough to witness A-10 live firing at an army range near Warminster. My daughter was in the ATC, and I was co-opted to provide some transport for a group of cadets to visit a "Live Firing Demonstration". We were all installed in a natural amphitheatre (along with a couple of hundred army bods), with just about every piece of British firepower laid out in front of us. After witnessing SA-80, sniper fire (impressively taking down a target at 1.5km range), claymore mines, Scorpions, MBT's, Lynx helicopters firing TOW's, etc., we were told that two Harriers were coming from behind to fire rockets, followed by two A-10's. Spectacular can't describe it. The A-10 gun sounds like when you rip material, but 1000 times louder. The aircraft are visually slowed down when the gun is firing; it's incredibly impressive. That was in '91/'92, but the memory lives like it was yesterday.
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Absolutely amazing post...
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AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!
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Pic 3, is that a watermark on your pic, or something to do with the shockwave from the gun firing?
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Wow, man what would i give to get a set of pics like that, thanks for sharing.
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Shockwave shot is excellent, and catching the flying rounds in mid air is superb!
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Fantastic set, particularly love the close ups!
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I believe these arewhat the was designed for!
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Stonking selection of images, look at those topside banks!
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Amazing stuff! perfect clarity!
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Incredible photos! I don't even know what else to say!
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One of the posts of the month for me, brilliant stuff, fantastic pictures, Ciaran
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No11. for me, nice lightiing and contrast. A cover shot if I ever saw one!
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Just had to have another look, a few of them photos you can see the rounds in the air just in front of the aircraft! These have to be the best A-10 photos I've ever seen?
Toom317, thats a shockwave
Toom317, thats a shockwave
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