RE: A10 ordnance help
Hi Alex,
My name is Karl. I spent 10 years in the US Air Force. I worked as a weapons systems specialist on the A10. In other words, I loaded the weapons on the A10-A. I noticed that you painted your A-10 in the European scheme. This paint scheme was primarily used prior to Desert Storm. After Desert Storm these were converted to the Gray scheme. This will affect your ordinance colors too. For example your fuel tank will be the same Green you used. Also the AIM-9 launcher, your AGM-65 launcher and ECM Pod will be green also. Your Air to Air ordinance will be the light Grey. The Air to Ground ordinance will be green. If you notice, all weapons have a color band on it. This band will determine the type of munition. A blue band is for inert ordinance, in other words non explosive. A yellow band is high explosive. Also where certain weapons were placed is important. There are alot of different options. You will need to do some research. Air to Air munitions are usually outside the wheel well pods. ECM or AIM-9 will be on stations 1 or 11. One other note, fuel tanks were only used during cross country missions. I am not aware of anytime fuel tanks are used in combat. Think of it this way, anything that stays on the airplane, ECM pod, launchers can be on the aircraft during cross country missions. Weapons, only in training and combat.
Karl