Posted on 06/21/2016 6:35:58 AM PDT by snarkpup
Michigan National Guard attack aircraft practiced landing on and taking off from the Jägala-Käravete Highway, a portion of the longer road known as Piibe Highway, in Northern Estonia on Monday. The maneuvers were conducted as a part of international military operation Saber Strike wherein pilots practiced operating in a region with few actual airstrips and where alternatives would have to suffice.
No A-10 as far as we know has done this since the 1980s, explained Brig. Gen. Doug "Odie" Slocum, commander of the 127th Wing at Selfridge. We practice short-field landings, we practice landing in 'austere locations' is what we call it but this is the first time in a long time that A-10s have landed on a highway strip."
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Lord help us, the Fuckedup-35 (ways from Sunday) is going to get its overpriced can creamed the first time the ChiComs or Ivan send some “SAM spam” and we’re losing planes that cost more than the GDP of some nations. It’s too expensive to even fire a missile from the thing.
Is Estonia part of Michigan now?
Beats Mecca.
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