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The beloved A-10 Warthog has a brand new role: bomb truck Bombs away!
taskandpurpose.com ^ | APR 27, 2023 10:23 AM EDT | BY JARED KELLER | PUBLISHED

Posted on 04/28/2023 9:13:31 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Does so
Hope they’re keeping these guns if we’re called to the ME again...

The A-10 tips backward onto its tail when the gun is removed; the Avenger will always be part of that platform.

21 posted on 04/28/2023 11:52:44 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: grumpygresh

Planner in DC might order that, but I doubt the pilots would comply with those orders. Posse Comitatis prevents US military from operating domestically and the officers know this.


22 posted on 04/28/2023 12:03:08 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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Posse Comitatis prevents US military from operating domestically as a police force only. There is nothing to prevent the US Military from being used as a military force inside the US. In fact, the Oath of Enlistment says that as a member of the US Military you will defend the Constitution of the US from enemies both foreign and domestic. Officers and enlisted will follow their own personal politics as to whether they will carry out any orders to fire on the US population.


23 posted on 04/28/2023 12:17:39 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: Red Badger

So ugly it’s beautiful!


24 posted on 04/28/2023 1:05:26 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: teeman8r

A-10s are badass! I used to go watch them at Richards-Gebaur Airshow in Kansas City, MO.


25 posted on 04/28/2023 3:41:37 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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It’s more likely that the US will use these weapons against the American people.

Possibly.

26 posted on 04/28/2023 4:20:03 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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Planner in DC might order that, but I doubt the pilots would comply with those orders. Posse Comitatis prevents US military from operating domestically and the officers know this.

The officers also know that the moment they fire upon US citizens, their own homes and families become at risk.

27 posted on 04/28/2023 4:26:25 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: Tommy Revolts

lining up a column of enemy tanks and firing the cannon til they are a smoking bloody mess...


28 posted on 04/28/2023 5:45:01 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Red Badger

Remember another democrat named Jimmy Carter tried to kill the B-1B bomber. Democrats always undermine the United States.


29 posted on 04/28/2023 6:52:31 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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We could install a centerline gun pod on our F-4B’s. It made that cool BRRRT sound as well.

It was great for close air support. The pilot in the front seat finally found a use for those rudder pedals, other than nose wheel steering and foot rests.

The spent shell casings ejected themselves underneath the pod, which made for a great weapon to put somebody’s eye out.

I never did understand the Navy’s decision to leave the cannon out of the early F-4 models. For awhile, the F-8 Crusader was the “last great gunfighter”.


30 posted on 04/28/2023 8:00:03 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (Semper Fidelis)
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Mag 39 in Quang Tri had started receiving the OV-10 shortly before I left in 1969. Besides the 2.75” rocket pods, They were looking at rigging them up for dropping Mk-81 bombs.

Dunno how that worked out but the ordnance guys were not looking forward to humping bombs around.


31 posted on 04/29/2023 9:27:07 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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