Posted on 04/28/2023 9:13:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
The A-10 tips backward onto its tail when the gun is removed; the Avenger will always be part of that platform.
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.
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.
So ugly it’s beautiful!
A-10s are badass! I used to go watch them at Richards-Gebaur Airshow in Kansas City, MO.
Possibly.
The officers also know that the moment they fire upon US citizens, their own homes and families become at risk.
lining up a column of enemy tanks and firing the cannon til they are a smoking bloody mess...
Remember another democrat named Jimmy Carter tried to kill the B-1B bomber. Democrats always undermine the United States.
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”.
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.
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