Jesus's middle name is Hume! Caution: Some NSFW images within!

[kage69]

 

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[Captante]

 

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[blackangst1]

Oh God no. Just no.

Is this a real gift card now?

 

[blackangst1]

This is sacrilegious!

 

[dank69]

 

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[blackangst1]

The whole cats and boxes has always fascinated me

 

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hahahaha

 

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[dank69]

 

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[KMFJD]

https://imgur.com/u8298T0

and completely missed whatever it was firing that gun at

 

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[dank69]

https://imgur.com/8lypAwF

 

[Stiff Clamp]

One time I put a NiN sticker on my car. Rear window. Some other apartment-dweller tore it off. It was on the ground in pieces when I went out to leave one morning. Must have caused some rage.
No clue who did it.

 

[kage69]

and completely missed whatever it was firing that gun at

What makes you say that?

There are probably thousands of dead Talibs who would vouch for the accuracy of A-10 pilots. CAS specialists have to be quarter backs as well as skillful pilots. Guys like Maj Mike Hilkert "completely missing" is pretty rare I think.

"...imagine coordinating 21 heavily-armed aircraft across 37 different radio frequencies in the middle of the night during a brutal firefight where dozens of friendly ground troops are in danger of being overrun. Oh, and by the way, you have to do all this while flying your own 25,000-pound aircraft through dark, rough terrain."

My favorite part:

"A half-hour after the A-10s arrived, the PJs were pinned by close range heavy machine gun fire. With Jedi-like situational awareness, Hilkert found the threat while he was hooking up to an aerial refueling tanker to get more gas. For mere mortals, aerial refueling takes an extraordinary amount of concentration, but Hilkert did it while marking targets a mere 50 meters away from Kline and Cenna’s positions. With the targets marked, Hilkert’s wingmen opened up with their 30mm cannons, “saving Kline’s and Cenna’s lives,” the press release said.

 

[KMFJD]

What makes you say that?

The gun is terrible at trying to hit anything reliably from everything i have heard , the recoil on that thing moves the plane all over the place. The best thing about the plane is it's survivabilty and even that is questionable unless you have air superiority , and in that case you'd get a better bang for buck using something like super tucano's

it's a highly over rated plane that goes brrrt..there's a reason they want to get rid of the things

 

[kage69]

The gun is terrible at trying to hit anything reliably from everything i have heard , the recoil on that thing moves the plane all over the place. The best thing about the plane is it's survivabilty and even that is questionable unless you have air superiority , and in that case you'd get a better bang for buck using something like super tucano's

it's a highly over rated plane that goes brrrt..there's a reason they want to get rid of the things

It decelerates it, if that's what you mean, though the firing rate selection has a lot of effect there. The GAU-8 was initially too precise, and had to be destabilized to achieve a better projectile dispersion pattern. I know a video from the 80s of a hotel being sprayed with fire is convincing and all, but does that strike you as the kind of placement that would work in danger close runs, with friendlies 50m out or less? Updated targeting and optics clearly, which would have been on that hog in 2019. How do you explain the support from those on the ground? I don't think those youtube clips are saying what you think they do, not via data anyway. Maybe I missed the proof. Someone has a bit of a Pierre Sprey hang up, though the guy was a total prick, no argument there.

Regardless, you won't find me in the A-10 tank killer fan club. It's better at what it did in Afghanistan but even with it's flaws I'd prefer it over other platforms with nowhere near the loiter time, payload or low speed maneuverability. I don't find the A-10's survivability questionable at all. 20 were hit in Iraq, 6 lost, 14 damaged. Didn't one make it back missing a wing?

Superduper Tucano