A10 in Germany
On exercise in Germany I was on the (fortunately theoretical) receiving end of an A10 attack and I could only think " that bloody thing is an enormous flying target!" In normal NATO mode we had no more local air defence than waving GPMG fire at it but a ZSU 23-4 would have been all over it. So slow and so big. Harriers just appeared without warning and vanished though I was once in a position on a hill where the Harriers were flying past so low I think I could have taken one or two out by throwing rocks down at them.
On exercise in Germany I was on the (fortunately theoretical) receiving end of an A10 attack and I could only think " that bloody thing is an enormous flying target!" In normal NATO mode we had no more local air defence than waving GPMG fire at it but a ZSU 23-4 would have been all over it. So slow and so big. Harriers just appeared without warning and vanished though I was once in a position on a hill where the Harriers were flying past so low I think I could have taken one or two out by throwing rocks down at them.