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U.S. Army Paratroopers from 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment, "The Rock", 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, call in an A-10 Warthog to engage Insurgent position with 30mm gatling gun in Korengal valley, Afghanistan. Additional info: "The distance was no more than 500 meters and this is after we had just gotten attacked from multiple positions, this being only one of them, and in a village we visited frequently and were shot at on the way in and on the way out just about every fucking time and in a place where we took contact on a daily basis, some from far some from close."
Sweet.
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Date: 5 Oct 2010 22:15 (UTC)no subject
Date: 5 Oct 2010 22:29 (UTC)no subject
Date: 5 Oct 2010 22:47 (UTC)no subject
Date: 5 Oct 2010 23:02 (UTC)Gatlings like the one the A-10 has can reduce a concrete bunker to rubble if they fire at it for a bit.
Non-explosive rounds are around 10 *ounces*. That's the part that's hitting the target. Explosive rounds are a bit lighter. But make up for it by exploding.
And a "burst" like we saw in that video was *hundreds* of rounds.
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Date: 5 Oct 2010 23:07 (UTC)That's just the gun. A Warthog also has eleven hardpoints for weaponry. Had the pilot been pressed for time, one AGM-65 Maverick would have leveled the place.
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Date: 5 Oct 2010 23:12 (UTC)no subject
Date: 5 Oct 2010 23:17 (UTC)How about eleven barrels of hell (http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb291/CountessRavenstein/warhammer/40kBaneblade03.jpg)?
Throne almighty, I do so love the Imperial Guard.
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Date: 5 Oct 2010 23:49 (UTC)it was all battlecannons, autocannons, and stormbolters
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Date: 6 Oct 2010 00:01 (UTC)A-1Os have been used before against buildings in Afghanistan, mission-loaded with cannonshells but the preferred building-cracker is a JDAM free-fall bomb or Ubique (artillery). The incident that made the press headlines a few years back was the attempt to "get" a particular Bad Guy who was, intelligence reported, holed up in a building on the outskirts of a small town. The A-10 pilot reportedly made a nap-of-the-earth approach to avoid detection and walked fire into the target building. Unfortunately the pilot was not briefed on the bunch of Afghan kids playing football in a field next to the building who he accidentally slaughtered... Still, shit happens in a war and boy do you get great video clips out of it.
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Date: 5 Oct 2010 23:13 (UTC)she can carry assorted laser guided bombs, maverick missiles
old fashioned iron bombs, small diameter bombs for avoiding collateral damage in urban areas. how big a crater do you want?
this article doesnt begin to cover all the ways an A-10 can hurt things you want removed.
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/a-10/
urban pest control at its finest.
http://www.harpoondatabases.com/Platform.aspx?DB=1&Type=Plane&ID=1633
although for a big heavy construction building you might want to hit it with something bigger
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Date: 6 Oct 2010 01:21 (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 Oct 2010 01:48 (UTC)It could also be a Doppler effect. All my experiences with witnessing Warthogs firing had me behind the planes as they fired. This cameraman was positioned somewhat in front of the plane.
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Date: 8 Oct 2010 21:07 (UTC)