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Is that planned or is it specifically for the F-16? If not then cool, but it would be cool to have a better pod for the Hog.

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53 minutes ago, EricJ said:

Is that planned or is it specifically for the F-16? If not then cool, but it would be cool to have a better pod for the Hog.

fully agree!

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Is that planned or is it specifically for the F-16? If not then cool, but it would be cool to have a better pod for the Hog.
I think the A-10C II has no the propper lot to the Sniper pod.

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Dragan

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Why don't we have a combination with two different targeting pods so that we can change them as needed,like we have 3 different ECMs, here in this real life footage there is something like that.I agree with you.

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23 hours ago, Dragan said:

Why don't we have a combination with two different targeting pods so that we can change them as needed,like we have 3 different ECMs, here in this real life footage there is something like that.I agree with you.

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Thats a SUU-25 pod for LUU-2 and LUU-19 illumination flares...

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Mad Dog 762

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A-10C's fly with the Sniper Pod every day.  It is probably more common than the litening these days.  

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21 hours ago, Mad Dog 762 said:

A-10C's fly with the Sniper Pod every day.  It is probably more common than the litening these days.  

Source? I've never seen anything other than a lightning pod on the A-10 and I've worked around A-10's for the last 5 years. 

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3 minutes ago, ASAP said:

Source? I've never seen anything other than a lightning pod on the A-10 and I've worked around A-10's for the last 5 years. 

Don't know about more common, but these images are circa 2009 and have Sniper:

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Here's an article about Sniper integration onto A-10Cs, again circa 2009: https://www.dm.af.mil/Media/Article-View/Article/314052/lockheed-martin-completes-targeting-pod-site-activation-at-d-m/

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1 hour ago, Northstar98 said:

Don't know about more common, but these images are circa 2009 and have Sniper:

Sure, but that's a 16 year old article. A-10's are pretty much exclusively using litening pods now. 

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On 6/6/2025 at 2:08 AM, ASAP said:

 

Thats a SUU-25 pod for LUU-2 and LUU-19 illumination flares...

Exactly, you're right, I didn't recognize him right away, my mistake 👍

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Okay there's a sticker/tag that was added that there are no plans for the DCS version, so we're stuck with the Litening pod.

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I live near a A-10 base (190th FS) and I see them all the time.  There is still a mixture of pods, and I would say more Sniper than Litening these days.

 

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On 6/5/2025 at 9:51 PM, Mad Dog 762 said:

A-10C's fly with the Sniper Pod every day.  It is probably more common than the litening these days.  

That’s incorrect the Sniper pod hasn’t been used regularly in the A-10 community since around 2012.

On 6/7/2025 at 5:03 PM, Mad Dog 762 said:

I live near a A-10 base (190th FS) and I see them all the time.  There is still a mixture of pods, and I would say more Sniper than Litening these days.

 

At Moody now and at Whiteman for 2.5 years and I can tell you that isn’t the case at either of these bases. 

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Just my humble opinion, but if it was used as an option on the real AC why not make it available as an option on the DCS version??

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4 hours ago, Victor3 said:

Just my humble opinion, but if it was used as an option on the real AC why not make it available as an option on the DCS version??

Likely because it's not a plug and play from one airframe to another, even on the real jets.  ED does "just enough" to keep the A-10C II viable (how long have we been waiting on the in-cockpit pilot) so I wouldn't expect any additions.  Heck we can't even get a simulated gateway to share network information with client Vipers or Hornets (but we can see AI viper & hornet network data last I checked) they're not going to invest the time to develop the Sniper for the A-10C.

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Well, I'll get you guys a pic next time one flies over my back yard.  

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14 hours ago, Mad Dog 762 said:

Well, I'll get you guys a pic next time one flies over my back yard.  

Cool, all I know is the units I've been a part of and/or visited the last few years aren't using them (Moody, Whiteman, & DM). And soon you won't get to see it in your back yard at all since they're divesting their A-10s soon IIRC.

On the topic of DCS though it isn't going to matter we aren't getting it.

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22 hours ago, Mad Dog 762 said:

Well, I'll get you guys a pic next time one flies over my back yard.  

Eagerly waiting for it.

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8 hours ago, Snoopy said:

Cool, all I know is the units I've been a part of and/or visited the last few years aren't using them (Moody, Whiteman, & DM). And soon you won't get to see it in your back yard at all since they're divesting their A-10s soon IIRC.

On the topic of DCS though it isn't going to matter we aren't getting it.

I have half a mind to delete the topic, or ask it to be closed, but a PM conversation with NineLine... He said not to give up hope. So I'll keep the topic around for that fact. So yes right now it may not be implemented, but maybe in the future it will be. There's simply no reason not to, and we'll have to hope they'll reconsider once the Sniper pod tech works out. I mean the current pod is good enough for what I do (it's done a good job so far), and so on, so it's not like it's a burning request right now. More or less "nice to have since it's employed", and so on. So for hope I'll keep the topic around and such.

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A Sniper Pod will required a Suite 8 A-10C.

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Looking back through my pics it looks like the Fort Smith and Moody Hawgs were the ones most often carrying the Sniper.  

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In this very old footage, the A-10 does not have the targeting pod that we are familiar with, is this the pod we are talking about? By its appearance, I would say it does not AN/AAQ-28 Litening???

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22 hours ago, Silver_Dragon said:

A Sniper Pod will required a Suite 8 A-10C.

That’s incorrect we carried the sniper all the time in suites older than 7+ when HMCS was introduced.  The A-10C never stopped being able to carry it we just didn’t it.

17 hours ago, Mad Dog 762 said:

Looking back through my pics it looks like the Fort Smith and Moody Hawgs were the ones most often carrying the Sniper.  

We carried sniper only at Moody until around 2012ish. 

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