As a Marine Vet, the sound of a Warthog on a gun run motivates the hell out of me.

Loved knowing they were there when you needed them.

 

I would hate to be a ground soldier, on the receiving end of a Warthog strafing run. That plane with its cannons and Gatling guns was designed for one thing and one thing only... low flying strafing runs. If we gave the Ukrainians, two or three dozen Warthogs at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, those columns of Russian troops invading Ukraine would have been decimated... war over. Done.

 

This puts the GAU-8 into some perspective. The A-10 is not a plane with a gun, it is a gun with a plane.

 

This puts the GAU-8 into some perspective. The A-10 is not a plane with a gun, it is a gun with a plane.

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That’s a great picture, how much does a full load of ammo weigh?

 

There was a massive Russian tank column that got trapped on a highway in Ukraine at the start of the war, and it was attacked piecemeal by Ukranian forces. I remember someone on the news saying if only they had a squadron of A-10s they could've turned that entire column into mincemeat just like the Highway of Death during the Persian Gulf War.

 

The tactic is as time honored as it is simple, take out the lead vehicle and take out the last. The rest are sitting ducks in that environment.

 

Huh... That's what the navy said about the F-14 and the A-6. Now they fly the screaming fart sack F/A-18.

 

yes and no.