The General Electric GAU-8, 30MM Gatlin cannon, which fires 4800 rounds a minute, is ALWAYS useful. Some may remember in Granada, when a A-10 fored into a building, it REMOVED the entire second floor in one burst. Aerial artillary, it ain't just for tanks.
Point taken. Geez, just think what that would do to a mud hut.
The General Electric GAU-8, 30MM Gatlin cannon, which fires 4800 rounds a minute, is ALWAYS useful. Some may remember in Granada, when a A-10 fored into a building, it REMOVED the entire second floor in one burst. Aerial artillary, it ain't just for tanks.
Gotta agree, it "ain't just for tanks anymore!" The ammunition for the 30mm "Avenger" cannon has become diverse - including some that act as anti-personnel fragmentation grenades when they impact. An A-10 pilot could "paint" an area with a two-second cannon burst and the Taliban troops would find themselves in the middle of *hundreds* of bursting grenades.
The A-10s could pop up over a ridgeline and surprise some of the bad guys, unlike the higher-flying C-130-based gunships. The right tool, for the right job. I suspect they'll use the Warthogs if they're over there. Besides, you never know when some Taliban sympathizers in Pakistan might send some tanks over to "help".