Poll! What's your favorite ground pounding, ground support aircraft?

[Frankie]

Favourite Strike Aircraft Poll

An attack aircraft, strike aircraft, or attack bomber, is a tactical military aircraft that has a primary role of carrying out airstrikes with greater precision than bombers, and is prepared to encounter strong low-level air defenses while pressing the attack.

This class of aircraft is designed mostly for close air support and naval air-to-surface missions, overlapping the tactical bomber mission. Designs dedicated to non-naval roles are often known as ground-attack aircraft.

So what's your favourite strike aircraft? Choose 6 out of 23 in the list. If you choose "Other (not listed)", please let us know what that/those missing plane(s) is/are by replying to this post. I, however, have included some helos and Vietnam-era attack aircraft in the list.

If anyone has any suggestions what other aircraft (fixed-wing, sweep variable-wing, rotary or otherwise) I can include in the poll, please let me know.

Cheers
Frankie Kam

P.S., poll closes in 14 days

[Lumituisku]

Voted

[Asid]

I have also excluded helicopters. So no Hind, Cobra or Apache Longbow.

[Frankie]

The truth is, originally I had included helos as well. So I think it'll be more interesting if I include some rotary-blade and Vietnam-era aircraft in the list. I've adjusted the poll so that you can amend your choices (change your mind and re-select) before it ends; I've expanded the list to 23 aircraft; lastly, you can now pick up to 6 aircraft. if anyone can think of ways I can make the poll even more interesting please let me know.

[Asid]

Thats better 

[Beef]

Voted

Top of the list for me:

[Frankie]

Voted. The Top Dog for me is the Panavia Tornado.

[Asid]

Voted

A picture to follow 

[wilso845]

This video has 3 of my favorite aircraft 2 of which i fly on BMS.

[Cougar11]

Voted. 2 that I like the most is the far reach of the F-15 to actually throw bombs from far away, and then the A-6 Intruder

[Speedwagon]

Voted. 1st choice is Panavia Tornado. Two others not listed that I like are Republic P47 Thunderbolt and General Dynamics F-111.

[Tom N]

voted (5 x), the one not listed for me was the Kamow Ka-50 with coaxial rotor system and ejection seat.

[Frankie]

The results

Aircraft		Votes
========================		=====
Fairchild Rep. A-10 Thunderbolt II		7
Boeing AH-64 Apache		5
Panavia Tornado GR4		5
Other (not listed)		4
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon		3
Grumman A-6 Intruder		3
McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle		3
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II		3
Mil Mi-24 Hind		3
[td]Bell AH-1 Cobra		2
Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet		2
[td]Lockheed AC-130 gunship		2
McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II		2
Bell UH-1B Huey		1
Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer		1
Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Cosair II		1
SEPECAT Jaguar		1
Bell OH-58 Kiowa		0
Bell UH-1Y Venom		0
Douglas A-1 Skyraider		0
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk		0
North American F-100 Super Sabre		0
Republic F-105 Thunderchief		0
Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot		0

Unlisted aircraft included these:

• Republic P47 Thunderbolt
• General Dynamics F-111
• Kamow Ka-50