The Father of the A-10 Warthog скачать в хорошем качестве

The Father of the A-10 Warthog

It was ugly, underpowered, and its pilots could barely move inside the cockpit — but the Henschel Hs 129, the Panzerquacker, the Battle Duck, might be the most important ground attack aircraft ever built, because without it, we never get the A-10 Warthog.Now. Those duck nicknames have been floating around in your comments for months, and not once did we use them in the original video. Five of you did, though. So consider this me catching up.And while we're on the subject of things you spotted before I did — a good number of you made a very specific claim. That this cramped, unreliable, chronically broken German ground attacker is the direct conceptual ancestor of America's most iconic close air support aircraft. You drew the line from the Hs 129 to the A-10 Warthog. One of you even supplied the detail about a certain pilot's memoir that ties the whole thing together. So today we're going to take your thesis, treat it as a hypothesis, and run it against the evidence — properly, with real specifications, real names, and real honesty about where it holds up and where it gets thin. Because if this connection is real, it deserves better than bar trivia. And if it isn't, you deserve to know that too.Let's start with the aircraft itself. Not what happened to it on the battlefields of the Eastern Front — because frankly nobody in the comments cared about the battle chronology we spent all that time on last time, and fair enough. What matters here is what the Hs 129 was designed to be, and why the specific engineering choices made at the Henschel works between 1937 and 1939 would echo decades later in an aircraft built on the other side of the world.