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

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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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Hey Obama, I guess Romney was right after all, you damn stupidly educated Ivory League Traitorous Fool.

[VideoDoctor]

Obozo will "F-up" and start a war and then claim to Americans "we're NOT in a war"

My point: Sooner or later he 's gonna make a mistake so big that it CANNOT be lied about or glossed over.

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If we had any sort of sense in our national defense strategy, these things would be tasked to destroy the roads and rails facilitating the invasion from the south. Not so easy to get millions of Central Americans over the border if they have to walk all the way from the Yucatan.

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“The GAU-22/A is lighter and more accurate than its predecessor, but with a reduced rate of fire of 3,300 rounds per minute. At that rate, the F-35 would be out of ammunition in about four seconds, or one or two bursts of fire.

By comparison, the 30mm, seven-barrel GAU-8/A Avenger in the nose of the venerable Warthog attack aircraft can hold as many as 1,174 rounds. It’s configured to fire at a fixed rate of fire of 3,900 rounds per minute.”