So you want to drive a tank ... not a good idea.

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Postby omitchell » Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:16 pm

Only one thing you can do in that situation really...

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Postby toprob » Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:17 pm

Very nice. That is the most all-business plane I've ever seen, it's one purpose is basically shock and awe. Plus, that last shot looks like Jar Jar Binks...
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Postby Ian Warren » Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:25 pm

They really are one hell of a aircraft, I have photo here comparing the magazine pull out off the A-10 sitting beside one of those old 1970s VW Beetle ... it was the same size as car the magazine alone , then the gun sat in front ! one snazzy weapon.
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Postby Roelio » Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:04 am

It isn't called the tankbuster for nothing winkyy.gif Many Iraqi tanks were being abandoned when they got word that a Warthog was in the area during the 1st Gulf War.
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Postby omitchell » Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:12 am

Roelio wrote:
QUOTE (Roelio @ Aug 16 2014,2:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It isn't called the tankbuster for nothing winkyy.gif Many Iraqi tanks were being abandoned when they got word that a Warthog was in the area during the 1st Gulf War.


The thing I remember most about this aircraft and Iraq was it being used against an entrenched troop of 12 Iraqi soldiers who were holding off a US Marine battalion in the 2nd Iraq war. They were running out of supplies and ammo but still trying, a day more and they would have been over run but the Marines called in an air strike, one of these came in and turned that cannon on the troop. Well you can guess what the marines found in the bunker. Quite frankly it wasn't much and it wasn't pretty and it was a great example of over kill, using an anti tank aircraft on humans...
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Postby Ian Warren » Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:12 am

omitchell wrote:
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one of these came in and turned that cannon on the troop. Well you can guess what the marines found in the bunker. Quite frankly it wasn't much and it wasn't pretty and it was a great example of over kill, using an anti tank aircraft on humans...

Nah, that is exactly what they are designed for, close support and interdiction, if you were driving a T72/T80 tank the results are the same, to take out the brain in the tank - step in harms way ya get wrath of a Warthog.
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Postby Splitpin » Sat Aug 16, 2014 4:38 pm

Thanks for looking ... smile.gif
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