[Heir of the Void]

Originally Posted by yanzzy5

Also I didnt know the A10's could fly?!

Yup, they can. Be very afraid.

To elaborate, after seeing the effectiveness of the USMC A-6 Intruder in combat, the U.S. Army decided they needed one and launched the A-X Program (Attacker Experimental) to fix that problem.

Unfortunately, the Intruder's inability to fly around and generally poor mobility made it unsuited for sustained inland operations, and every attempt to add jump units ended poorly.

Then, Fairchild Republic (quite possibly the only manufacturer in the BETA-verse not to be given the Lockweed Treatment) decided to take a look at the F-4 concept. Everyone else decided that the Phantom was over-armored and it's problem was that it couldn't doge, but they decided that its problem was that it was under-armored and its problem was that it couldn't shoot everything so effectively it had no need of dodging.

So, they threw the idea of 'agility' out the window, added armor and bulked up the engines enough that the thing could achieve a respectable straight-line speed, and added enough gun that it could shoot everything so effectively it had no need of dodging. They accomplished this by mounting a BRRRT on both shoulder blocks.

Then the entire population of the United States looked on what they wrought, and saw that it was good. Even if it was hard to make anything out through all the blood splatter.