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The Awesome A-10 Video the Air Force Doesn’t Want You to See
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, and never hear anything in the news, even the most casual listener most likely has heard that the U.S. military’s new GAZILLION dollar aircraft, dubbed the most advanced aircraft on earth hands down, or the F-35, has been plagued with non-stop problems and cost “overruns” that don’t even qualify as “overruns” anymore. They represent the cost of countless other projects that could never be started because they have been so high. One would think with ALL the problems and the setbacks, things might finally be smoothed over, but, the aircrafts still show signs of several problems.
That has American infantry members very nervous. There has been an effort to retire the A-10 Warthog for some time, which is the only aircraft built for a close-air-support (CAS) missions. The video below is a heartfelt, informative video on the A-10, and shows how the men on the ground feel about the decision. One would think they’d be thrilled to have the “most advanced aircraft on earth” watching over them, but that is hardly the case. This video is for anyone with an interest in the importance of close air support, or has loved ones in harms way.
One senior military official says:
“When you’re talking to a 19 year old boy on the other end of the radio, who’s just scared, and he needs some help right then, he doesn’t care about fiscal constraints, he doesn’t care about big picture Air Force Policy, he doesn’t care about he next fancy weapons system, he cares about being saved right then and there.”
A J-10 ground coordinator says:
“When you tell the guys on the ground help is coming, If you tell them something else, they say, “PST, I don’t care, tell me when A-10’s are coming…
Not having an A-10 with a certain future is very scary. Just the sound of an A-10 coming… it picks up everyone quite a bit… it shakes the ground, you hear the echo of the gun… and you hear the sound of freedom in the air… it says, ‘Don’t mess with me to the enemy, and lets you know you’re in good hands.“
I don’t know how much more there is to say there. Those two gentleman summed it up well, however the video is well worth watching!
MAKES PERFECT SENSE THE MILITARY BRASS WOULD TRY TO RETIRE SOMETHING THE TROOPS LOVE RIGHT?
A-10 Video They Don’t Want You To See
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The A-10 Warthog is the only aircraft built for a close-air-support (CAS) mission.
It was literally designed around its distinctive 30mm Gatling gun. The gun is more than 19 feet long and weighs more than 4,000 pounds.
The distinctive sound made by the weapon (aka the BRRRRRRRRRT – created as rounds fire faster than the speed of sound), is music to the ears of the troops on the ground, so much so, the plane sometimes called “the grunt in the air.” A-10 pilots often find themselves providing support at Danger Close distances.
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“They love this airplane,” says one Air Force A-10 pilot, referring to units on the ground. “They trust us. For them to trust to do that is very gratifying.”
Recently, the John Q. Public blog, run by retired Air Force officer Tony Carr, came across a video he suspects was produced by the Air Force’s Combat Camera units, lauding the A-10, its crews, its pilots, and the capabilities of its support for ground troops.
“ComCam is perhaps alone in its possession of the unique combination of access and capability to create something this close to the mission with such superior production values,” Carr writes. “A ComCam airman risked mortal danger to make this film and tell this story, getting immersed in a firefight along the way (you’ll see him drop his camera and hear him discharge his weapon in the video).”
Combining ground combat footage with access to the aircrews who run and fly the Warthogs, Carr believes the video has “unmistakable importance,” but he wonders if the video is being suppressed by senior Air Force leaders for political reasons.
The controversy stems from the Air Force’s repeated attempts to retire this relatively young fleet of aircraft. The A-10 first appeared in the Air Force arsenal in 1972 and was used with great effect in Operation Desert Storm. Comparatively, the Air Force’s B-52 fleet was first introduced in 1955 and is still in service.
“It’s not a political statement,” says a pilot in the theater. “I’m not saying air interdiction isn’t important … but the benefits [of close air support] are right there.”
The Air Force aims to replace the A-10 with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a trillion-dollar weapons system that is the most expensive in history, which is extremely over budget and experiencing an uncanny number of development setbacks. While retiring the A-10 would save many billions of dollars annually, that money would likely go to further developing the F-35. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh III says the F-35 is designed “for the whole battle space” and would replace the A-10’s CAS capabilities.
The much more expensive F-35.
But politicos and ground troops are not buying it.
“When you’re talking to a 19-year-old man with a rifle, who’s scared on the other end of a radio,” another Air Force A-10 pilot says in the video. “You know he doesn’t care about fiscal constraints, ‘big picture’ Air Force policy, the next fancy weapons system coming down the pipeline. He cares about being saved right then and there.”
The heartfelt, informative A-10 video is below and is worth a watch for anyone with an interest in the importance of close air support.
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Go Hawgs !! Two thumbs up on this one. All for having the biggest, most badazz fighting force on the planet but only to be used to stop aggression and threats….not to be used to steal other nations resources or to overthrow legitimate governments or to create profits for psychopath criminal banksters, corporate owners and insane politicians.
It is all about draining the pockets of the taxpayers into the military industrial complex which is heavily Jew controlled as that is where the easy profits are which further advance the wealth of the Jew masters.
Jew controlled what pills you taking you clown
There is Jew and then there is counterfeit jew. There is Christian and counterfeit Christian.
Perhaps seer is unaware that there is a six pointed star above the eagle on his dollar bill. Or a six pointed star between every shoulder when congress is in session. Or that there is a six pointed star on the hilt of every officer sword of all branches of U.S. military.
Or that walmart’s latest logo is a six pointed star, or that the company Digimarc, designer of driver’s licenses and state ids for various U.S. states, has a company logo with 3 six pointed stars…666….
or that counterfeit jews run our education system, our media, our banks….on and on….
Gain wisdom while there is yet time ‘seer’….
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Good Journeys
There are nice Jew’s and there Satanic Jews! There are nice Gentiles and there are Satanic Gentiles!
The Blame rests on Satan who runs this world and his minions who follow satan’s (Jew and Gentile) marching orders!
Jesus Christ (GOD in the Flesh) warned us we would have to live with the TARES (satan’s worshippers and minions (satan’s children – I.E. TARES – Reptilian Shapeshifters!))
Satan uses war to keep people in FEAR (False Evidence (or made up evidence) Appearing Real!)
A persons only escape from Satan is through your 100% in Jesus Christ! Amen to that!
Wars are created by Satan to steal peoples souls through death!
Many will not have a clue as to what I just said above because their eyes are blind to the TRUTH!
JESUS CHRIST IS THE TRUTH AND WILL OPEN YOUR EYES WHEN YOU PLACE ALL YOUR HEART ON JESUS AS YOUR ONE AND ONLY SAVIOR!
Satan only needs one eye to fool the lost sheeple with two eyes!
Get Saved and know that your body is a temporary holding vessel of your Precious Soul that “lives on” and can only go up to Heaven or down to Hell based on your GOD given FREE WILL Choice here on earth until your guaranteed death of your body!
GOD gives you the FREE WILL choice to decide where your soul goes!
If you don’t make the decision where your soul goes then satan gets it in the end by DEFAULT!
There is NO other SUPERIOR low-flying aircraft that PACKS A PUNCH available to support the ground troops.
That said, that means the illegal negro Muslim sodomite and his band of Democraps want that aircraft put to sleep forever.
One fine machine built for one thing, putting holes in stuff, it do it good and stays in the air. the Fu*ked-35 can’t hold a candle to this loitering hammer, too bad the political and military machines ar not up to the challenge.
hy are we still using winged flying machines?
Bring those disc shaped droplet spaceships out already! I live under a rock and know about those things than some gazillion dollar slow airplane.
Eat More GMO
Moo Cow needs Jesus Christ as his Savior!
Are you trying to say Jesus doesn’t like GMO?
Voice of Reason. Before you post anymore stories, go to school and learn to speak English, or at least get someone to proof read your rubbish before you post it.
so the air force don’t want you to watch the propaganda film they created? right if you say so
There can be no war without people to fight.
If you’re scared, STAY HOME and stop risking your life for the greedy elite who don’t give a damn about you and your family… or which limbs you may lose, or if you’re a vegetable when you get out, IF you get out alive.
STAY HOME so you are there to protect your family.
they need new airplanes so they can get kickbacks…….wake up peeps!
I have tried to be open minded about the F-35 but just can’t get past the feeling that this thing is a PIG and will never even replace the F-22 or even F-15 and will most certainly never work for CAS. Do you really think even if it could go slow enough and take the beating that the air force is going to risk a billion dollar aircraft on CAS? No way.