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An Air Force Plane Slated For The Scrap Heap Is Now On The Front Lines Against ISIS (A-10, Warthog)
BI - International Business Times ^
| 9-23-2014
| Christopher Harress
Posted on 09/23/2014 1:00:09 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:00:09 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Anything that came before Premier Obola is obsolete and must be replaced. He is so much smarter than anyone else who has ever lived.
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:01:28 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: blam
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:01:52 PM PDT
by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
To: blam
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:03:06 PM PDT
by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
To: blam
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:03:41 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: blam
They keep saying its outdated and obsolete, yet they keep going back to it.
I was in the air force and most decisions are made by fighter pilots. Thats changing a little but if it doesn’t go fast they don’t have a lot of use for it.
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:04:08 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: blam
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:04:18 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: blam
One really does not want a warthog driver mad at them.
There is pretty much nothing that’ll withstand a full on gattling gun attack.
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:04:51 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: blam
The Story beyond the Story, A10 primary Function is... Ground Support!
Hummm
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:05:15 PM PDT
by
jafojeffsurf
(Return to the Constitution)
To: blam
I wonder where they will be flying from? Maybe Jordan? Too bad the Warthogs were not around when ISIS was on parade.
To: b4its2late
Best time of my life, flying the Hog in the 80’s, in Europe. . .gawd. . .what a jet!
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:05:28 PM PDT
by
Hulka
To: blam
Looks like that A-10 took a round on it’s engine housing.
To: blam
Scrap heap?
Heck, I want one for my birthday.
Awesome bird
To: blam
As all warcraft should be...weapons systems first then propulsion and whatever accoutrements can be affixed thereafter :)
They should be building more but better :)
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:06:45 PM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: blam
Love that vapor photo!!
Article says some USAF brass like the ‘Hog but I wonder if they’d be willing to stand up and really be counted. Somehow, I doubt it.
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:07:18 PM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: blam
Oh those crony military industry lobbying generals get so pissed when there’s action and the warthog gets another well deserved reprieve
Well worth the effort to go and see them fly (glide) by
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:07:19 PM PDT
by
stanne
To: blam
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:07:35 PM PDT
by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
To: blam
The Air Force once again tried to scrap one of the most useful close support aircraft they own because it isn’t a super sophisticated, quarter billion dollar, fly high, go fast zoomie.
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:08:11 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: blam
I’ve been saying, like many of you, that if there had been a squadron of A10s left in Iraq, ISIS would never have been able to move out of Syria.
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posted on
09/23/2014 1:08:28 PM PDT
by
DaxtonBrown
(http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
To: blam
Seems like the obvious weapon of choice given the nature of the current enemy. In an age of "asymmetrical warfare" the A-10 is close to the perfect weapon. Those who wanted to scrap it were short sighted idiots.
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