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2019-09-03 Science & Technology

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Posted by KBK 2019-09-03 09:45|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Hm, that should be non-WOT!

Posted by KBK 2019-09-03 09:55|| 2019-09-03 09:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone pointed out that if the Marines have their own fixed wing air support why can't the Army? (Insert all the bureaucratic self serving and self rationalizing malarkey here)

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-03 09:59|| 2019-09-03 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 My beloved Warthog!

Posted by Warthog 2019-09-03 10:44|| 2019-09-03 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 A big gun on your nose makes a good first impression.

Posted by jpal 2019-09-03 10:46|| 2019-09-03 10:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Sometimes you need a ... Specialist... if you want the job done right.

Posted by magpie 2019-09-03 12:09|| 2019-09-03 12:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Was that GAU-8 bastard ever mounted on any other thing ? What a beauty.

I remember seeing photos of yards of chewed up asphalt and tarmac, with ambiguous heaps of metal scrap which used to be ISIS vehicles splattered with human gristle.

I read somewhere that the Warthog's track record of surviving war zones can only be matched by its survival of Capitol Hill for so long. Why can't there be a Thunderbolt III ? With stealth, miniaturized AWACS and lighter armour ? Materials science has surely progressed since its latest iterations were made.

On second thought, scratch that.
A-10 vs F-35 face off

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-03 14:00|| 2019-09-03 14:00|| Front Page Top

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