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Roelio wrote:QUOTE (Roelio @ Aug 16 2014,2:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>It isn't called the tankbuster for nothingMany 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...Last edited by omitchell on Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:13 am, edited 1 time in total.
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omitchell wrote:QUOTE (omitchell @ Aug 16 2014,3:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>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.Last edited by Ian Warren on Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:13 am, edited 1 time in total.