"Killer Chick" USAF pilot lands A10 without hydraulics!!!!

[MrWhyt]

I don't think was insurgents who did the damage. I'm pretty sure this story dates from the opening days of OIF and so the then-intact Iraqui my would be the most likely culprit. Thoguh i could be wrong.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

We can both appreciate that an Apache and a Hog have very different speeds!

With an airspeed of around 440mph it well within the speed envelope of late WWII fighters, who were often shot down with unguided light AA.

I suspect the world leaders in dealing with modern AD systems is Israel who have to contend with belligerent neighbours with fairly modern intact AD systems.

 

[Gunner]

According to her DFC citation, it was a SAM.

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.defenselink.mil/heroes/profiles/images/cards/campbellK_cardFront.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.defenselink.mil/heroes/profiles/campbellK.html&h=420&w=300&sz=20&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=MOsC1u3hlBFKzM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=89&prev=/images%3Fq%3DKim%2BCampbell%2Bwarthog%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Her take on the incident in 2003:

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.defenselink.mil/heroes/profiles/images/cards/campbellK_cardFront.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.defenselink.mil/heroes/profiles/campbellK.html&h=420&w=300&sz=20&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=MOsC1u3hlBFKzM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=89&prev=/images%3Fq%3DKim%2BCampbell%2Bwarthog%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

She must be a somebody as she has a wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Campbell_(pilot)

 

[Colin Parkinson]

An odd article, they mention Rocket Propelled Grenades (aka RPG) and then say an unguided antiaircraft missile hit it (gee I don’t think they being making those since the demise of the CF 100)

If the chunk missing in the stabilizer was hit by a anti-personal RPG, that would explain the line of holes in the fuselage, all of which look like they were made either by bullets or possibly ball bearings.

 

[Old Sweat]

There is a technique used by relatively unsophisticated forces of having the troops aim at a point in the sky and then open fire on order. The aircraft then flies into the cone of fire. It was taught and used in the Second World War and I recall a briefing at the US Air Defense School that mentioned US high performance aircraft being lost to it in Vietnam. While very low tech, it can work and I suspect it does wonders for troop morale.

The Canadian army dabbled with it in the bad old days, depending upon the whims of commanders. I think the acronym (which indicates a degree of official blessing) was SAAD for something like small arms air defence. If memory serves me, the combat small arms course in CTC in the mid-seventies gave basic instruction including live firing in tracking and leading aircraft using radio controlled model airplanes as targets.

 

[Kat Stevens]

I believe it's also somewhere in the original C-9 book,  I seem to remember something about laying on your back, gun tucked under the armpit, butt on the ground, and whaling away.

 

[NCRCrow]

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/zsu-23-4.htm

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/zsu-23-4.htm


The Gun Dish Fire Control Rdr should have spiked her RWR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_warning_receiver

I like GW's ZU-23 theory.