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The A-10 is back in the Middle East
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| 11/28/14
| Beckhusen
Posted on 11/28/2014 7:12:52 AM PST by pabianice
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To: fhayek
I believe that depleted uranium is not radioactive (at least to a harmful degree). That's true, it's started it's long strange journey back to lead.
Regards,
GtG
61
posted on
11/28/2014 9:19:19 AM PST
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: KoRn
The A-10 has no carrier version so the Marines would have to use what they have now.
To: Vaduz
“PIGS IN SPAAAAAAACE!!!”
What an awesome machine, the A-10.
63
posted on
11/28/2014 10:36:06 AM PST
by
elcid1970
("I am a radicalized infidel.")
To: going hot
I was a Huey driver. We lived by this proverb:
“Thy rotor RPM is thy staff of life, without it shalt thou surely perish.”
64
posted on
11/28/2014 10:39:58 AM PST
by
elcid1970
("I am a radicalized infidel.")
To: Gandalf_The_Gray
Not some lowly accountant, that sort of order comes from the top. Sec Def Dick Cheney ordered the tooling for F14s destroyed. He might have been the one who took out the A10 production stuff In addition.
65
posted on
11/28/2014 10:44:50 AM PST
by
Rockpile
To: huldah1776
That article is idiotic. It is written under the assumptions of the 80’s, and also, as if there wouldn’t be any electronic interdiction on their behalf.
Remember, the 80’s were when we were assuming we’d be trading tanks at a 5-7 per M1 in a Fulda Gap scenario, and the M1 has NEVER been defeated in tank to tank battle by a soviet block tank, it’s record is like 2700-0.
The A-10 is designed to operate with either air superiority or highly contested (i.e. assumes the other guys fast movers are mostly occupied) airspace. It’s armored to take ground hits.
The ONLY reason there is effort to remove this aircraft from inventory is because it’s to cheap, and not glamorous. If you had a scale that graded equipment retention based on how many enemies and their equipment the unit had destroyed, we’d be using A-10’s up until we “evolved into peaceful light beings”...
66
posted on
11/28/2014 11:06:16 AM PST
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: TangoLimaSierra
67
posted on
11/28/2014 11:18:36 AM PST
by
aviator
(Armored Pest Control)
To: Telepathic Intruder
“This is just cleaning up Bushs mess.”
And what would that mess be?
68
posted on
11/28/2014 11:21:57 AM PST
by
Valin
(I'm not completely worthless. I can be used as a bad example.)
To: elcid1970
that and the Jesus Nut... 8^)
69
posted on
11/28/2014 12:09:33 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: elcid1970
Yeah, that and the Jesus nut (Oh Jesus!)
70
posted on
11/28/2014 1:09:55 PM PST
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: Chode
LOL. Didn’t see your reply until I posted!
71
posted on
11/28/2014 1:12:37 PM PST
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: Axenolith
To: Valin
Bush’s mess is not being around to finish the job he started. Obama wasn’t interested, and thought our apathy was a better solution. So look what happened—the terrorists are fully organized now and calling themselves a nation, whereas Bush at least had them hiding in the shadows.
73
posted on
11/28/2014 2:18:11 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: going hot
GMTA and all that... 8^)
74
posted on
11/28/2014 2:21:52 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Goreknowshowtocheat
No but we could bring back the A-6’s.
75
posted on
11/28/2014 2:25:09 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Goreknowshowtocheat
I believe any aircraft the Marines use needs to be able to fly from an aircraft carrier? It would be perfect for the army though.
76
posted on
11/28/2014 2:30:41 PM PST
by
HenpeckedCon
(What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
To: Telepathic Intruder
Bhsh didn’t make a mess except in the minds of deranged moonbats
77
posted on
11/28/2014 2:36:27 PM PST
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: Gaffer
The Gun Kill:
The 4” depleted core is wrapped in steel.
1. Upon impact with armor the kinetic energy of the round converts to heat and the outer steel casing melts and the armor does too
2. The round does not melt its way into the tank but the force of the round begins to “push” inward the armor of the tank.
3) The inside of the tank explodes as it ruptures from the round pushing its way in. . .”spalling” is what it is called.
4) The blast of the rupture causes a deadly/incapacitating over-pressurization of the atmosphere in the tank.
5) Fragments of the inside of the tank scatter around the interior of the tank, shredding all sorts of gear and soft flesh.
6) The round, now almost completely striped of its steel coating, enters the inside of the tank and ricochets around, shredding all sorts of gear and flesh.
Oh yeah. . .a killing weapon for sure. . .
78
posted on
11/28/2014 2:48:46 PM PST
by
Hulka
To: KoRn
See Post 78 for a description.
Hell on earth, for sure.
79
posted on
11/28/2014 2:50:00 PM PST
by
Hulka
To: fhayek
Hah. . .that’s why it is called “depleted.”
80
posted on
11/28/2014 2:50:24 PM PST
by
Hulka
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