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Meet the Air Force's 'ultimate battle plane' and your new close-air support
Air Force Times ^
| October 25, 2016
| By: Stephen Losey (Photo Credit: Airman Kai White/Air Force)
Posted on 03/28/2017 7:38:50 PM PDT by nralife
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To: nralife
I didn’t think the usaf cared for close air support . . . not sexy enough. and then all the money you spent on ugly a-10s and such was wasted money that couldn’t be spent on sexy-ass f-22’s & etc.
To: Sasparilla
Wouldn’t it be something if he stashed billions away in Swiss bank accounts like some third world dictator? Sounds like a good rumor to start. ;-)
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:06:14 PM PDT
by
Pining_4_TX
(For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
To: gaijin
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:06:25 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: nralife
I took this one around 10 years ago so they are probably more advanced now.
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:08:05 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: nralife
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:12:30 PM PDT
by
ALASKA
(Landslide.........)
To: nralife
An AC in the stack above is always a good thing.
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:13:42 PM PDT
by
SakoL61R
To: nralife
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:15:15 PM PDT
by
citizen
(To hold with the #MSM description used by @POTUS, I am using #OppoMedia to refer to our biased media)
To: Pining_4_TX
“How about we get some control over this before buying yet another expensive trinket?”
If you are a “gun-nut” then do a bit of research on “Spooky” and “Puff the Magic Dragon”. These gunships have been “saving the bacon” for grunts since Vietnam.
Proven technology, just carrying more weapons. The C-130 is one of the best military acquisitions ever made. It has been an outstanding replacements for the C-47/C-117, which was the aircfart for the first “Spooky’s”.
“Saved my bacon” during an NVA on-line assault.
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:24:48 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
To: nralife
They conducted raids on Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafis forces during the civil war there in 2011
Competent and sane CINC is still needed.
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:27:24 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Parroting fake news is highly profitable for some.)
To: Tench_Coxe
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:30:06 PM PDT
by
nralife
(Tell Sen. John Cornyn we DO in fact want a real wall! 202-224-2934)
To: gaijin
“Hmmm..anyone know what the CHIN DOMES do..?”
^^^^^
Couldn’t say. But thanks for posting all the photos!
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:31:41 PM PDT
by
nralife
(Tell Sen. John Cornyn we DO in fact want a real wall! 202-224-2934)
To: gaijin
My guess is night vision.
To: nralife
That plane probably is the best ground support plane in the world but it has a weak chin so make sure it is used in it’s proper way.
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:33:50 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: yarddog
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:34:05 PM PDT
by
nralife
(Tell Sen. John Cornyn we DO in fact want a real wall! 202-224-2934)
To: nralife
Doing the work other planes can’t do since 1954. That’s 63 years, not a small number!
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:39:51 PM PDT
by
beelzepug
(Anybody I attack may rest assured it's personal!)
To: nralife
I attended the memorial service for the crew of Spirit 3. In Niceville, Florida.
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posted on
03/28/2017 8:44:41 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: Pining_4_TX
Actually this plane is the cheaper route than Tomahawks and B2 bomber missions on assumetrical warfare.
To: nralife
For a while, I thought this was going to be about the Super Tucano...but then the armaents load kept getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger, and....even bigger.
To: BwanaNdege
Thank you for your service
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posted on
03/28/2017 9:31:23 PM PDT
by
MattinNJ
(I am optimistic about the USA for the first time in a decade)
To: Fungi
Nope.
Lasers can only shoot a straight line.
Other munitions can shoot over the horizon, over objects/hills and even be programmed to explode at some distant over or near an object to spread sharpness or over pressure to kill or injure.
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posted on
03/28/2017 9:32:40 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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