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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: nddons on January 29, 2016, 08:57:00 AM

Title: ISIS May Have Saved the A-10
Post by: nddons on January 29, 2016, 08:57:00 AM

Could rational thought have returned to the Pentagon? 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/politics/air-force-a-10-isis/index.html

Title: Re: ISIS May Have Saved the A-10
Post by: JeffDG on January 29, 2016, 09:07:23 AM

I know a former Warthog driver...he loves that plane.

Title: Re: ISIS May Have Saved the A-10
Post by: Bob Noel on January 29, 2016, 09:17:54 AM

I love the A-10.  A plane designed the way a plane should be designed.  Designed around delivering the weapon (the cannon) and protecting the pilot.

It's not sexy, it just gets the job done.

However, ISIS has a lot of armor?

Title: Re: ISIS May Have Saved the A-10
Post by: PaulS on January 29, 2016, 09:19:09 AM

ISIS has most of the stuff we left in Iraq.

Title: Re: ISIS May Have Saved the A-10
Post by: JeffDG on January 29, 2016, 09:25:56 AM

Quote from: Bob Noel on January 29, 2016, 09:17:54 AM

I love the A-10.  A plane designed the way a plane should be designed.  Designed around delivering the weapon (the cannon) and protecting the pilot.

It's not sexy, it just gets the job done.

However, ISIS has a lot of armor?

The gun will cut through non-armour too...


The plane is the peak of close air support...can get into tight areas, and put ordinance on target with minimal collateral damage.  Makes it an ideal platform.

Title: Re: ISIS May Have Saved the A-10
Post by: Bob Noel on January 29, 2016, 09:33:15 AM

Quote from: JeffDG on January 29, 2016, 09:25:56 AM

The gun will cut through non-armour too...

and non-armor as well, but it is arguably overkill for soft targets.

Title: Re: ISIS May Have Saved the A-10
Post by: JeffDG on January 29, 2016, 09:42:52 AM

Quote from: Bob Noel on January 29, 2016, 09:33:15 AM

and non-armor as well, but it is arguably overkill for soft targets.

But, you can put a gun round into a target that you can't put a 500 lb bomb or missile into, because the damage radius is so much smaller.


The AC-130s have been a great platform as well.

Title: Re: ISIS May Have Saved the A-10
Post by: Bob Noel on January 29, 2016, 09:51:49 AM

Quote from: JeffDG on January 29, 2016, 09:42:52 AM

But, you can put a gun round into a target that you can't put a 500 lb bomb or missile into, because the damage radius is so much smaller.


The AC-130s have been a great platform as well.

well, the round coming out of the A-10 gun is more likely to go THROUGH the soft target rather than just into it.

Title: Re: ISIS May Have Saved the A-10
Post by: nddons on January 29, 2016, 09:58:27 AM

Quote from: Bob Noel on January 29, 2016, 09:51:49 AM

well, the round coming out of the A-10 gun is more likely to go THROUGH the soft target rather than just into it.

Are there a lot of people who have lived through a 33mm round that passed through them instead of stopped in them?

Title: Re: ISIS May Have Saved the A-10
Post by: You Only Live Twice on January 31, 2016, 08:23:30 PM

Quote from: nddons on January 29, 2016, 09:58:27 AM

Are there a lot of people who have lived through a 33mm round that passed through them instead of stopped in them?

They probably disappear into a cloud of pink mist.