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To: nikos1121

There are fair numbers of videos of A-10’s on YouTube. Search “A-10” or “warthog”.

It is effective for many reasons; in short, it is incredibly rugged and can fly with about 5/8 of the plane destroyed. This gives the pilots lots of confidence to get in close. And then there’s that gun, 1 round from which can knock out a tank. The rounds are supersonic which means the targets never hear them coming (as if that would make a difference) Multiple rounds from that thing can simply obliterate anything. The plane is one of the most perfect storms of design objectives in that it is a work of art in terms of pure destruction.

Yeah, go look at some YouTubes of it. Of course the Air Force hates it because they only cost a few million each instead of tens or hundreds of millions each.


61 posted on 01/21/2015 1:59:55 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Of course the Air Force hates it because they only cost a few million each instead of tens or hundreds of millions each.

Again, that is an often repeated myth and is not at all true.

66 posted on 01/21/2015 2:26:46 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

About the only plane with more awesome conventional firepower than the ‘Hawg might be the AC-130 Spectre.
But I suspect the jug-eared sodomite in the WH will try to kill it, too!


77 posted on 01/21/2015 3:34:55 PM PST by snuffy smiff (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
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