"Another Story That Makes The Case For Keeping The A-10" Topic
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| Tango01 | 30 Nov 2015 10:48 p.m. PST |
"Air Force Col. Martha McSally was leading a squadron of A-10 attack jets over Afghanistan when they encountered U.S. forces engaged in a desperate fight against Islamist insurgents. One of the embattled troops signaled his unit's location with a small mirror that reflected sunlight upward. McSally, the first American woman to fly in combat, and the other pilots flew to the light and opened fire with the seven-barrel Gatling cannons nestled in the A-10s' noses. The fire, at 65 rounds per second, devastated the enemy. The surrounded Americans lived. "They didn't have time to figure out the eight-digit coordinates of the enemy or to put a laser spot on the target because they were on the run with their lives in danger," McSally recalled in a recent interview. "The other (jet) fighters were above the weather, so they could not get down to save these guys. They were not going to live, but we went down and saved their asses. We were able to get below the weather …"
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| Coelacanth1938 | 01 Dec 2015 5:40 a.m. PST |
The A-10 is as iconic as the Starship Enterprise. |
| Tango01 | 01 Dec 2015 10:30 a.m. PST |
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| Mako11 | 03 Dec 2015 12:41 a.m. PST |
The jet to call on, when you really need "close air support". |
| Windward | 04 Dec 2015 2:51 p.m. PST |
And everything the Air Force hates.
Low and slow and dedicated to a single task, CAS, a job the Air Force doesn't want. BTW since the argument against the A-10 is vunrability, how many have been lost in combat? |
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