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The US Air Force Is Sending 12 A-10 Warthogs To Eastern Europe To Deter Russian Aggression
BI/ The Fiscal Times ^ | 8-15-2015 | Martin Matishak

Posted on 08/15/2015 8:51:46 AM PDT by blam

Martin Matishak, The Fiscal Times
August 14, 2015

The Air Force didn’t help its long-standing argument that the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jet should be retired when the service announced this week it would deploy more of the aircraft to Europe this fall.

The 23rd Wing at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia announced it will send 12 attack planes and crews to Central and Eastern European to bolster NATO’s “Operation Atlantic Resolve,” an ongoing show of military might meant to deter Russian aggression in the region.

In March, the Air Force deployed a dozen A-10s from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona to Romania and the Czech Republic.

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Arizona; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: a10; airplane; nato; russia; ukraine; ukrainecrisis; warthogs
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To: blam
The Business Insider map appears to show Shyrokino under Russian (Separatist) control? I thought it still under contention? Anyone know?

If so, bad news for Mariupol.

21 posted on 08/15/2015 9:18:27 AM PDT by donozark (We grow too soon old and too late smart...)
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To: central_va
As a pilot of over 30 years in many types, with a lot of time, "Altitude is your friend".

With the exception of my seaplane rating. For that you just follow the rivers at 2000' AGL.

A-10's will go nowhere near Islam. They work too well and kill too many of those wanting to kill others.

Obama rolls Islam first.

22 posted on 08/15/2015 9:18:59 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: donozark

A-10’s without F-18’s and F-22’s to support them are in big trouble. IMHO, Obama will send them to Eastern Russia to blow them out of the sky, depleting the inventory, so Islam is a safer place to kill Christians, Jews, and little girls.


23 posted on 08/15/2015 9:22:13 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: blam

“The Devil’s Cross.”


24 posted on 08/15/2015 9:24:30 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Studies show that some people say experts agree!)
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To: blackdog

you’re not just singing in the dead of night, my friend.


25 posted on 08/15/2015 9:27:06 AM PDT by brivette
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To: buckalfa

“They aint sexy, unless you are ground pounder. “

The Warthog is a ground pounders best friend!!!!!


26 posted on 08/15/2015 9:39:19 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: DaxtonBrown

It’s really simple: USAF jet jockeys don’t like to fly low or slow, and they love their bells and whistles. The A-10 is the antithesis of their multi-billion videogame-on-steroids planes reserved for a select few.


27 posted on 08/15/2015 9:39:19 AM PDT by antidisestablishment (I was mad when they changed Republican states to Red, but I now I see they were right.)
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To: DaxtonBrown

There are plenty of Flyboys who want to keep them, nay, increase their numbers and keep enhancing the airframe with newer components.

It is, after all, a bunch of AIR FORCE people who fly them and maintain them. Ask them, they love them!

It’s just the brass are politicians—or soon-to-bees, and the politicians are beholden to the lobbyists, and the lobbyist have the money to push them to the F-35.

They have to pay to play, and once you make General, you’re close to retirement and that high-priced executive job at a defense supplier...

But do not assume that everyone in the USAF hates the A-10. Too many are cowards to oppose the high-ranking haters, though.


28 posted on 08/15/2015 9:44:24 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: antidisestablishment

So, who is flying those A-10s? Marines, Soldiers, Sailors?

Do those who fly A-10s like them or hate their jobs?


29 posted on 08/15/2015 9:45:32 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: blam

If we want to deter Russian aggression, we need to restart the production lines for A-10s and F-22s. End the F-35 program.

Build more ballistic missiles and missile subs and send weapons to the Ukrainians.


30 posted on 08/15/2015 9:50:20 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
The A-10 reminds me of a pug. It is so ugly that it is beautiful.
31 posted on 08/15/2015 9:54:41 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: rktman
I’m more than willing to house one for them at no cost

I am willing to "foster" one at my place.

32 posted on 08/15/2015 10:13:23 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: blam

We really need to either refurbish a whole bunch of A-10s or build a whole bunch of them from the updated plans. This is the best airplane in the world for its mission, and it would be a shame to trade that capability for overpriced multi-mission stealth aircraft that don’t do any one thing well.


33 posted on 08/15/2015 10:15:25 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: blam
Should be used on the road to Damascus.


34 posted on 08/15/2015 10:15:56 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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To: Alas Babylon!

The (A-10) Hawg pilots love them—but they are not in the fighter club. The brass prefers to spend billions on gee-wiz wonder weapons.


35 posted on 08/15/2015 10:17:47 AM PDT by antidisestablishment (I was mad when they changed Republican states to Red, but I now I see they were right.)
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To: blam

If this noob flew in combat I would want to fly this.

We’ll need the A-10 if they figure out how to make the railgun smaller, won’t we?


36 posted on 08/15/2015 10:51:49 AM PDT by GoneSalt (+NooB+"I STAND WITH DONALD TRUMP-HE'S TERRIFIC-HE'S BRASH-HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH"~TED CRUZ~)
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To: McGruff

Ya sure they need 12? Isn’t that overkill.

I think your pic was the work of four total and they were taking long coffee breaks.


37 posted on 08/15/2015 10:57:14 AM PDT by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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To: antidisestablishment

I believe the term is “fighter mafia.” The fighter jocks look down upon pilots of all other types, except maybe SR-71 guys.


38 posted on 08/15/2015 11:02:37 AM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: infool7

All kidding aside, this demented administration is probably sending them into (what they think to be) an ambush so they can scratch off 12 more of the most effective CAS platform ever known.

May God watch over them and their support crews as they journey into the belly of the beast on our behalf and may He watch-over, guide and protect all of those US military in harms way.


39 posted on 08/15/2015 11:02:55 AM PDT by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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To: PLMerite

You are correct, good sir!


40 posted on 08/15/2015 11:04:50 AM PDT by antidisestablishment (I was mad when they changed Republican states to Red, but I now I see they were right.)
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