36,915 ammo rounds and counting
January 6th, 2010 | A-10 Afghanistan Air Force aircraft | Posted by Bruce Rolfsen
It has been a hectic six months for the 354th Fighter Squadron, deployed to Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.
Here are some of the numbers the A-10 pilots and maintainers racked up flying just 12 Warthogs, according the unit’s public affairs office.
10,000-plus flying hours. (That’s more than 133 percent of what the squadron flies per year at home with twice as many jets.)
2,500-plus sorties.
$3.75 million worth of munitions used including:
* 36,915 rounds of ammo fired from A-10 30mm guns
* 95 500-pound bombs released, including 78 Joint Direct Attack Munitions.
* 104 white-phosphorus rockets launched for marking targets.
* One Maverick missile fired.
Busiest day: Oct. 3 when Combat Outpost Keating was under attack and the A-10s logged 100 hours protecting the forward base, with as many as eight planes flying at the same time.