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2005-03-24 Afghanistan/South Asia

A-10's Prove Combat Capabilities Can Save Lives

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Posted by Matt 2005-03-24 14:09|| || Front Page|| [11139 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Excellent link, Matt! Thanks--

Posted by Dar 2005-03-24 2:39:12 PM|| 2005-03-24 2:39:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Someday, when the superior design and capabilities of the A-10 are put into a mass-produced remote operated drone, ground war will truly cease to be a 2-Dimensional event, and in combination with smaller UAVs will integrate air and ground operations into a 3-D battlefield.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-24 3:09:17 PM|| 2005-03-24 3:09:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Get the UAV platform and add a couple well-seasoned online gamers who've obsessively trained at it! Throw in some good oversight on engagement and we might have something.

Posted by Tkat 2005-03-24 3:34:34 PM|| 2005-03-24 3:34:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I would like to add a thanks to all the people that decided and were able to send A-10s for this. "People" may be the wrong term, here, and I appologize for that but I mean all the logistics that had to go into pulling off somethig like that. Very cool. (and should be reported more widely) Thanks.

Posted by Canuck 2005-03-24 4:59:39 PM|| 2005-03-24 4:59:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Tremendous story. And tremendous aircraft and systems. The A-10 is doing things its designers never dreamed of. That is what creative and free people do with designs. Thanks, Matt.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-24 6:32:18 PM|| 2005-03-24 6:32:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Looks like the link's gone bad. Can anyone post an excerpt?

(Am I the only one nostalgic for the "old" Rantburg that didn't have these damn annoying "link-only" posts?)

Posted by Sheik Abu Bin Ali Al-Yahood 2005-03-24 8:20:24 PM|| 2005-03-24 8:20:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey Sheik, the pointy goes over the link, then you left click.

Posted by illeagle 2005-03-24 9:01:03 PM|| 2005-03-24 9:01:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The A-10 is doing things its designers never dreamed of.

I dunno, having read about the plane's capabilities many years back, it seems to me they covered just about everything one would want in an aircraft whose main mission is close air support of ground forces. :)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-24 9:48:39 PM|| 2005-03-24 9:48:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The A-10, as I best recollect, has never failed to make a showing at the Vidalia Onion Festival Air Show. Gawd, I love this plane. The whine it makes as it passes over brings tears to my eyes, and piss to a Jihadi's shorts...

Posted by Ptah 2005-03-24 10:10:50 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-03-24 10:10:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 We have several wings(?) stationed here at D-M. We got lots of free air shows when they take off over us. You can practically touch them. And yet, they're so quiet (compared to an F-16, let alone an AV-8B or B-1).

A-10s often have an AMRAAM "just in case." I don't they've ever used one, but more than one has shot down enemy aircraft with its cannon, prompting a program manager to add a stickie to his sign to make it read "F/A-10."

Posted by jackal 2005-03-24 11:04:58 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-03-24 11:04:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh, and remember, leftists: these rescue operations are Not In Your Name.

Posted by jackal 2005-03-24 11:06:10 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-03-24 11:06:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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