Military Aviation: Fairchild A-10 Promotional Film, Firing Ordnance on Tank & Naval Ship Targets

Military Aviation: Fairchild A-10 Promotional Film, Firing Ordnance on Tank & Naval Ship Targets Title: Fairchild A-10 Missiles raised & fired, tanks & others Warsaw Pact weapons. Stills of surface to air missiles; 10:47:36 A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthog loaded w/ weapons taxiing & taking off, narration says protected cockpit & fuel tanks etc. 10:48:15 Steel target hit, explodes. CU AN/GAU-8 30mm seven-barrel gatling gun, rotating. Firing on test range into steel plate at speed; in extreme slow motion. 12:48:49 A-10 intercut w/ tanks; aerial of tanks across field. CU 30mm on A-10 firing; ground of explosions; A-10 peeling & diving, low rolling. Aerials of firing & ground of explosions. 12:49:53 Aerial view beneath A-10 fully loaded w/ rockets & missiles & possibilities on narration. 12:50:19 Firing ordance; rockets in flight & exploding; bombs dropped & hitting, exploding. Missiles fired, tank target hit. 12:51:08 AGM-53 Condor weapon dropped in slow motion CU. Hitting naval ship; slow motion of impact & fireburst. Aerial over destroyed midship. 12:51:40 Aerial of A-10; low pass; weapons firing. “...the one airplane developed to be there when needed w/ what is needed, the A-10.” End. Military Promotional Film; Training; Demonstration; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Color; Cold War; NOTE: AGM-53 Condor was canceled in 1978.