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A-10 In The "Balkans War"

Mirrodie From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 7419 posts, RR: 65
Posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2132 times:

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I recently saw a cool livery for the A-10 called "Balkans War"

IS this livery still used? Where are they based?

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L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 1, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 5 days ago) and read 2037 times:

I think most US air assets where based out of Aviano AB in Italy.

What livery are you refering to, the old European 1 green colors? Most of those have been switched over to grey now....

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Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 21
Reply 2, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 2025 times:

WHICH Balkan war Big grin

OK, OK, I know Smile/happy/getting dizzy

Give a picture and maybe something will turn up, but as L188 has hinted most are now standard USAF grey which is effective over a larger number of landscapes making it easier to redeploy aircraft (plus saving on the cost of paint as they need less colours).

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Mirrodie From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 7419 posts, RR: 65
Reply 3, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 1992 times:

Hey, here are the liveries I called to question. As I don't know much about military av, I figured you all would know best.

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L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 4, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 1959 times:

And all the use of Aviano cost us was the retirement of the excellent M1911 pistol, for the Itialian M9 Beretta.

Not a bad pistol, but definately not a .45

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Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 21
Reply 5, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1926 times:

That's the current standard for the A-10.

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HaveBlue From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2069 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1915 times:

Yeah, that's the color they have been for some time now. I know in the mid to late 80's they were still in the European green colors when I saw them at airshows... guessing the switch was made in the early 90's to the grey scheme.

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L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 7, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1913 times:

Would have been Mid-90's.

Was at Graf in Germany in 1993, when some of the A-10's along with some other allied aircraft where doing practice bombing runs on the range there.

They where still wearing the green paint at that time.

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Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 21
Reply 8, posted (8 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 1909 times:

the change started in the early 1990s and was completed around 1997 I think.
Aircraft in the European theatre were the last to get the new livery, aircraft painted temporarilly in desert livery for Desert Shield/Storm among the first.

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