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The United States 'Liberty' after it was attacked by Israel in 1967, killing 35 and wounded 171 people : SnapshotHistory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnak_Farm_incident
Barely related but pretty funny.
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It's funny reading how bongs in desert storm planted bigger and bigger bong flags on their tanks in hope of A-10 not attacking them (and it only half worked)
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Its unironically a point of debate on why A-10s love friendly fire so much when aircraft with more CAS missions and worse avionics still don't get anywhere near their number per mission flown.
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Oh gee, why does a jet that at the time had basically zero advanced target acquisition systems, and relied solely on pilots seeing things with their own eyes and shooting a lot of bullets at them make a lot of mistakes?
The A-10 is bad and almost every other jet in the US arsenal is better for CAS fight me
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It was still achieving the highest friendly fire rate by every possible metric once it had the same or better targetting systems than other aircraft in the same role. Its a bad plane that attracts bad people.
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Cope. The A-10 only takes battle damage because it's a fat slow hog that attracts AA and manpads because it floats around at low altitude moving slowly and piggily while an F-16, F-15 or B-1B can just blast things with precision from 30,000ft and skirt out of danger at Mach 1.5 no problem
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It gets worse when you remember what the A-10 was planned for (taking out Soviet tank columns). US military planners expected that in the event of a conventional war every last A-10 pilot and airframe would be dead within the first two weeks. !historychads
Like genuinely why would you respond to a military force whose entire air defense was focused around powerful SAMs with a no stealth no distance non maneuverable gunner plane as CAS.
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The funniest part was commies responded with the same, and mounted a massive gun with even more recoil on what would otherwise be their one modern CAS.
It fried random systems in minutes of shooting
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Catchy song tho
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Because they'd use the other part of their air force (and tactical missiles) to deal with SAMs? What part of close-air combat do you not understand?
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It's unironically one of the worst fixed wing projects ever accomplished. It was developed at a time when the USAF was proving out laser guided systems, hi-tech interdictors like the F-111 were coming online, the the F-4 phantom was being fitted with f-14 targeting systems for strike roles. The A-10 was a terrible use of funds and was a huge distraction for the role of the air force, where they should have focused on fast-and-capable interdictors or cheap low-and-slow counterinsurgency prop places like the Super Tucano.
Instead we have a fat hog that costs as much as an F-15 and basically is a slow bullet magnet
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Do you BIPOCs not think this through?
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How? With laser guidance from the ground? And it's only around for a second, so what kind of cover is that?
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They did a big upgrade of all the targeting systems decades ago. That's why they haven't been shredding marines nonstop for the last 2 wars.
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Fricking Narcs
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Christ that is not a good look
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That dude must have hated leafs so much
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Oh wow Tampons are fricking r-slurs? You don't say
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the nasty girls are american heroes, show some respect
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